November 6th 2009

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Little Egret

Wanstead Flats:

• 2 male Stonechats
• 6 Redwings west
• 1 Fieldfare north-west
• 5 Meadow Pipits
• 1 Skylark
• 65 Common Gulls, 35 Herring Gulls, 20 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
• Male Sparrowhawk (Tim Harris)
• male Dartford Warbler (DBA)

Fairlop Waters CP:

• 2 adult Mute Swans with 5 juveniles
• c30 Canada Geese, 2 Greylag Geese
• 20 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron
• 1 Kestrel over the golf course
• Mallard, Tufted Duck, Coot, Moorhen
• 30+ Teal on the lagoon
• Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe
• Black Headed Gulls, Common Gulls, Lesser Black Backed Gulls, Herring Gulls,
• c80 Lapwings on the Island
• 2 Snipe on the plain
• 3 Woodcock flushed from the plain
• 2 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• Ring Necked Parakeet (east)
• Carrion Crow, Magpie, Jay, Feral Pigeon, Stock Dove, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove
• Starling, Blackbird, 4 Song Thrush, 10 Redwing
• 80 Fieldfare (north)
• Robins, Wren, Dunnock, Pied Wagtail, 3 Meadow Pipit, 8 Skylark
• Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tits
• Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, 2 Linnit, 17 Siskin, feeding by the fishing lake
• 3 Reed Bunting
• 1 Chiffchaff still singing, associating with 2 Bliue Tits by the fishing lake

Fairlop Quarry:

• quick walk up footpath 86
• 2 Kestrels,
• 1 Fieldfare
• Long Tailed Tits, Blue Tits, Robin, Blackbird
• 2 Hawfinch in hedge near entrance feeding on berries, and flew off east (towards Hainault Forest)

Chigwell Row: (just outside the borough)

• 3 Jackdaw over Al Saints Church

Chigwell Row Water Treatment Works: (just ouside the borough)

• c40 Tufted Duck, 12 Cormorant, 6 Little Grebe
• Grey Heron, Mallard, 6 Mute Swan, Coot, Moorhen
• Green Woodpecker
• 2 Redwing,
• 5 Jay

Woodford Green:

• 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Pied Wagtail on Broadmead Estate
• 30-40 Gulls on the playing field, including Black Headed Gull, Common Gull and Lesser Black Backd Gull

Aldborough Hatch:

• over 30 Collared Doves perched on Aldborough Road North.