September 10th 2009

Gants Hill:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker, (male still present)
• House Sparrows c15 in the garden feeding
• 9 Greenfinches (juveniles and adults)
• 11 Chaffinches
• Blue & Great Tits
• 4 Startlings, 3 Magpies, pair of Blackbird, 2 Robins (1 juv), 1 Collared Dove, 1 Wood Pigeon, 6 Feral Pigeons (Alan Thomas)

Fairlop Waters:

• Female Tufted Duck with 6 Chicks, Great Crested Grebes with juveniles, Coot, Moorhens, Mallard, Mute Swans with cygnets, Canada Geese
• 27 Lapwings on the main Island
• Black Headed Gulls, Cormorant, Grey Heron
• Green Woodpecker
• Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff
• Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Blue Tits
• Dunnock, Wren, Blackbird, Robin
• Wood Pigeons with young, Collared Dove
• Pair of Kestrel
• Greenfinch, Chaffinch
• Carrion Crow, Magpie, Starling, Pied Wagtail
• 2 Pheasant on the main Island
• Swallows, House Martins, Sand Martins
• (Alan Thomas)

Roding Valley NR: (just outside the borough)

• 2 Kingfisher, Spotted Flycatcher, 3 House Martin, 3 Chiffcaff.

Connaught Water: (just outside the borough)

• Treecreeper, Kingfisher, 2 Grey Heron, Gadwall, Tufted Duck (Peter Warne).

Epping Forest, New Road, Woodford:

• Grey Heron over (D Messer)