September 20th 2009

Fairlop Waters:

• 50+ Swallows
• female Sparrowhawk hunting by the fishing lake
• 5+ Grey Heron
• Lots of Tufted Ducks
• Green Woodpecker
• 3+ families of Long Tailed Tits
• 1 (possible 2) Spotted Flycatcher by the remote control car track
  

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• North side of Painters Road:
• 2 Hobbies being VERY vocal and flying round and round the trees, until eventually flushing a Buzzard out of the tree
• 120+ Lapwing
• South Side of painters road
• 30+ Teal
• 40 Meadow Pipit, Skylark, 7 Linnet, 40+ Pied Wagtail
• Green Sandpiper
• 1 Wheatear
• 10+ Pheasant (only 1 male)
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Green Woodpecker
• HARE, RABBIT, FOX

Wanstead Flats:

• 3 Whinchat,
• 4 Whitethroat, 11 Blackcap, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 12 Chiffchaff,
• 38 Meadow Pipit, 12 Skylark,
• 1 Redstart,
• 1 Common Buzzard (low north east over City of London Cemetery),
• 3+ Yellow Wagtails over,
• 2 Reed Bunting,
• 100+ Swallows east,
• c50 House Martin,
• 1 Snipe on edge of Alexandra pond briefly (S Fisher)