October 29th 2009

Eagle Pond:

• Mute Swan, Canada Geese, Coots, Tufted Ducks, Mallards
• 1 male Shoveler
• 25 Common Gulls and a few Black Headed Gulls
• (at least) 3 Ring Necked Parakeets in the trees at the rear of the lake, near Snaresbrook Court

Fairlop Waters:

• 3 Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe and 4 Black Necked Grebe on the boating lake
• 30+ Tufted Duck on the fishing lake.
• Jack Snipe around the spit, (unusually it called as it was flushed)
• Pheasant calling from the plain
• Brown Rat
  

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• Kestrel hunting over the field to the east of the Gravel Works
• 3 Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 20+ Lapwing
• 3 Shoveler
• 2x Brown Hare, Rabbits, and probable Weasel!
  

Woodford Bridge:

• 2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers, 2 Mistle Thrushes, 6 Goldfinches, 2 Pied Wagtails, 2 flocks of Long-tailed Tits, 4 Jays (Alan Hobson)

Wanstead:

• Two Coal Tits on peanut and sunflower feeder. (garden by Wanstead Park) (Jennifer Charter)