August 28th 2009

Gants Hill:

• Coal Tit - Still present.
• Sparrowhawk - Female seen between 9.20am to 9.30am plucking the feathers ofa immature male sparrow in neighbour's tree until being mobbed by threemagpies which it then proceeded to fly away with the unfortunate victim.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Immature male still present.
• House Sparrows - Good numbers seen in garden minus one unlucky one.
• Goldfinch - One adult on main feeder.
• Greenfinches - c13 mixture of Juveniles & adults in garden.
• Chaffinches - c11 in around garden feeding.
• Blue & Great tits - Quite a number as per normal around garden.
• Plus - 8 Starlings, 4 Magpies, 2 Collard Doves, 2 Blackbirds (M&F), 2 Robins(J&A), 1 Dunnock, 1 Woodpigeon & 8 Feral pigeons.

Fairlop Waters CP:

• 100 Sand Martin, 100 Swallow, 6 House Martin, 2 Swift, 2 Hobbies (APe)
• Black Headed Gull, Herring Gull,
  
• Mute Swan, Canada Goose, Greylag Goose, Mallard, Coot, Moorhen
• Blackbird
• Blue Tit, Great Tit,
  
• Kestrel
  
• Green Woodpecker,
  
• Lesser Whitethroat,
  
• Carrion Crow, Magpie, Wood Pigeon, Starling,
  

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• 1 Greenshank,
• 6 Green Sandpiper,
• 4 Common Sandpiper,
• 1 Common Snipe,
• 25 Shoveler,
• 2 Teal,
• 4 Stock Dove. (Steve Bacon)