September 4th 2009

Fairlop:

• 3 Ringed Plover (Alan Bell)
  

Gants Hill:

• Coal Tit - Back again normal service resumed after no show yesterday.
• Great Spotted Woodpeckers - Male present & Immature female also present again.
• House Sparrows - c18 in garden seen more right at the back of garden obscured by view.
• Greenfinches - c12 with mixture of Juveniles & adults.
• Chaffinches - c10 in around garden.
• Blue & Great tits - Good numbers flying around in garden.
• Goldfinch - One adult feeding on nyjer seed feeder.
• Plus - 4 Magpies, 4 Starlings, 3 Blackbirds (M&F & Juvenile), 2 Robins(J&A), 2 Dunnocks, 1 Collard dove, 1 Woodpigeon & 8 Feral pigeons.
• (Alan Thomas)
  

Fairlop Waters:

• Whinchats - 2 Females seen at 9.30am one on rockery in dense shrubs next tokarting fence then perched on end of tree branch & the other one on Kartingfence before flying off into surrounding golf course area.
• Hobby - Seen at 10.00am over trying to catch a Martin over golf course which was unsuccessful but still spectacular to watch.
• Kestrel - 2 Seen one over boating lake hovering at 11.30am roughly and the other near the riding school area a bit later.
• Garden Warbler - Heard in shrubs opposite the lagoon along one of path ways around boating lake.
• Chiffchaff - Heard in back ground after first arriving somewhere at the back of main lake area.
  
• Plus: Robins, Greenfinches, Great tits, Blue tits, Long tailed tits, Crows, Cormorants + Juveniles, Lapwings, Tufted Ducks, Great Crested Grebes, Little Grebe - along side Lagoon., Canada Geese's, Coots ,Moorhens, Mallard Ducks ,Pied Wagtails - Some on top of club house & also on ground in front of lake.
• Passerines: House Martins, Swallows & Sand Martins lots flying around everywhere.
• Black headed Gulls, Herring Gulls & couple Juveniles, Grey Herons
• Mute Swans + single Mute Swan with 5 cygnets
• Magpies, Goldfinches (Adults & Juveniles), Chaffinches, Willow Warblers, Green Woodpecker - Heard., Dunnocks Woodpigeons,
  
• Starlings - Hundreds seen especially one flock which most probably had over, 500 easily.,
  
• Collared Doves, Feral pigeons
• (Alan Thomas)