December 31st 2009

Woodford Bridge:

• female Blackcap
• 2 Song Thrush
• garden sightings - (Sue Cowie)

Hainault Forest CP:

• Sparrowhawk;
• 40 Meadow Pipit;
• 12 Redwing;
• 2 Nuthatch. (BJ)

Loughton Brook: (just outside the borough)

• Little Egret. (BJ)

Barking Park: (just outside the borough)

• 6 Shoveler (Howard Vaughn)

December 30th 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• c100 Common Gulls and a few Black Headed Gulls
• Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker

Loughton: (just outside the borough)

• **Common Crane** landed briefly in 120ft garden before flying off. Still recovering from the shock (Mike Benyon)

Hainault Forest CP:

• north west corner toward Lambourne end, so not quite in the borough, but thanksfully the birds dont recognise the boundary.
• Treecreeper, Goldcrest, 25 Long-tailed tits,
• 100 Redwing, Fieldfare,
• 9 Pheasants (IWoodward, Tajinder Lachhar, Alan Thomas)

December 28th 2009

Hainault Forest CP:

• 4 Mute Swan (2 adult, 2 1st winter)
• Cormorant
• Canada Geese, Mallards, Coot, Moorhen
• Jackdaws, 4 Jay, Magpies, Carrion Crows
• 6 Chaffinch
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• 2 Nuthatch, Treecreeper,
• Blue Tits, Great Tits, Long Tailed Tits, Coal Tit
• Robin, Wren, Dunnock, Blackbird, 3 Redwing

December 27th 2009

Woodford Green:

• Broadmead playing field, 9.30am - Mistle Thrush

Fairlop Waters CP:

• Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe
• Tufted Ducks on the boating lake in good number (30+)
• c40 Lapwings on the jettys and the island
• 1 Meadow Pipit near the clubhouse
• 3 Redwing and 2 Fieldfare
• party of Long Tailed Tits

Valentines Park:

• 12 Pochard (MSevoir)

Epping Forest, Highams Park: (just outside the borough)

• (the part between The Charter Road and Oak Hill, Highams Park/Woodford):
• 1 Firecrest, 1 Nuthatch, 5+ Coal Tit,
• 1 Sparrowhawk,
• 3 Fieldfare flying over (Ian Woodward)

Chingford: (just outside the borough)

• Larkshall Road: 2 Redwing (IW)

December 26th 2009

Fairlop Gravel Pits:

• south side of Painters Road
• 20 Mallards, 3 Shoveler, Teal, Coot, Moorhen
• Black Headed Gulls, Common Gulls, Herring Gulls and Lesser Black Backed Gulls in a large flock with 1 Greater Black Backed Gull
• 170 Lapwing, 2 Snipe, Green Sandpiper
• 12 Stock Dove
• Meadow Pipit, Skylark

Fairlop, Painters Road:

• female Sparrowhawk
• Kestrel
• c100 Fieldfare
• Goldfinch
• Green Woodpecker
• several hundred Starlings (JMakengo)

Fairlop Waters:

• 100 Fieldfare (Ben)

Clayhall:

• 1 Stock Dove flying over Woodford Avenue toward Beal School

Aldborough Hatch:

• Garden sightings
• 2 Jays
• 1 Chaffinch
• c6 Long tailed tits
• 1 Wren (CPoutney)

December 25th 2009 - Christmas Day!

Epping Forest, Knighton Woods:

• Firecrest,
• 3 Nuthatches, 3 Treecreeper,
• 2 Coal tits, 30 Long-tailed tits,
• 3 Great Spotted Woodpeckers,
• 30 Redwing (IW)

Hainault:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker flying over Fencepeice Road

December 24th 2009

Wanstead Park & Flats:

• 83 Gadwall, c180 Coot, 8 Little Grebe,
• 1 Snipe flew East, 3 Shoveler,
• c300 Common Gulls,
• 15 Fieldfare, several Redwing
• 10+ Skylark,
• male Stonechat,
• Stock Dove, (S Fisher);
• 5 Mistle Thrush,
• 15+ Fieldfare, 120+ Redwing in 2 flocks (J Lethbridge)

Gants Hill:

• Fieldfares - small flocks seen at 10.19am flying over back gardens in 4 different groups within a 10 minutes spell heading I guess towards Fairlop.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Male
• Goldfinches - 3, House Sparrows - 18, Blue tits - 11, Great tits - 3, Greenfinches - 9, Chaffinches - 6, Robin - 1, Blackbird - 1 female, Wren - 1, Magpie - 1, Woodpigeons - 2, Feral Pigeons - 12 (Alan Thomas - garden sightings)

Hainault Forest CP:

• c50 Magpies flying in to roost at dusk
• 20 Redwings
• c100 Canada Geese
• Nuthatch heard

Aldborough Hatch:

• garden sightings:
• 3 Jays
• 1 Great spotted woodpecker
• 1 Dunnock (CPoutney)

Fairlop Waters Country Park:

• 100 plus Fieldfares
  50 plus Redwing
  40 plus Lapwing (CPoutney)

December 23rd 2009

Leyton Flats: (just outside the borough)

• 2 Snipe, 10 Lapwing SE, 1 Little Egret,
• 34 Shoveler,
• 129 Redwing, 70 Fieldfare,
• 24 Common Gulls. (Gary A James).

Wanstead Park:

• ~110 Redwing in 3 groups, all heading SE (J Lethbridge)

Woodford Green:

• 16 Redwing in a silver birch at the end of my garden 1330 (Steve Howey)

Gants Hill:

• Fieldfares - A flock seen at 11.19am over & across back gardens flying towards Barkingside direction probably heading on to Fairlop waters.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - Male
• House Sparrows - At least around 20+ maybe more.
• Blue tits - 9, Great tits - 3, Greenfinches - 9, Chaffinches - 7, Starlings - 12, Robin - 1, Blackbird - Female, Collared Dove - 1, Magpies - 3, Wood pigeon - 1, Feral Pigeons - 9
• Black headed gulls - over
• garden sightings (Alan Thomas)

Seven Kings:

• 2 Redwings in a pravate garden that backs onto Goodmayes Hospital (Elaine Freedman)

December 22nd 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• Snipe, Woodcock,
• Kestrel, f Sparrowhawk,
• f Reed Bunting,
• 3 Mistle Thrush, 20+ Redwing, 2 Fieldfare.
• Lapwing high SE at 14:28 (JL).

Bush Wood:

• Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3+ Goldcrest (J Lethbridge)

Gants Hill:

• flock of 22 Redwings in the neighbours garden, that then floew off towards Valentine Park (AThomas)

Painters Road, Fairlop:

• c20 Redwing and c30 Fieldfare
• male Kestrel

Roding Valley NR: (just outside the borough)

• Little Egret; Grey Heron;
• Lapwing;
• Grey Wagtail;
• 12 Fieldfare; 40 Redwing. (BJ)

Fairlop Waters:

• 45 Lapwing, 2 Snipe,
• Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker,
• 25 Fieldfare, 16 Redwing,
• Little Grebe, 4 Grey Herons, 62 Tufted Duck, 16 Gadwall, 12 Pochard, Wigeon, 7 Mute Swans,
• 12 Blackbirds (CIS)

December 21st 2009

Fairlop Waters CP:

• December WEBS count by Steve Bacon
• 8 Mute Swan
• 7 Little Grebe
• 5 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron
• 126 Canada Geese, 1 Greylag Goose
• 4 Wigeon, 27 Gadwall, 10 Teal, 17 Mallard, 9 Shoveler, 37 Pochard, 71 Tufted Duck
• 21 Moorhen, 81 Coot
• 111 Lapwing, 5 Snipe, 1 Woodcock,
• 245 Black Headed Gull, 52 Common Gull, 43 Lesser Black Backed Gull,. 6 Herring Gull, 3 Great Black Backed Gull (SBacon)

Fairlop Waters CP:

• Jack Snipe by the side of the main lake amongst foilage, until it flew into the distance, Snipe, 100 Lapwing, 50 Golden Plover,
• 5 Little grebes, 50 Tufted Duck, Pochard, 20 Gadwall,
• female Kestrel
• 100 Fieldfare, 50 Redwing, Blackbird
• Little Egret flying over the main boating lake,
• Grey Heron
• Tufted Ducks - x40 +Coots - lots, Little Grebe, Mallard ducks, Pochard, Gadwall, Mute Swan, 3 Greylag Geese, Canada Geese
• Black Headed Gulls - lots, Common Gulls, Lesser Black backed Gull
• Green Woodpeckers - x2, Great Spotted Woodpecker - Male,
• Goldcrest - x2
• Cormorants
• Woodpigeons, Collard Dove, Starlings, Dunnocks, Robins, Wren, Greenfinches, Blue tits, Great tits, Long tailed tits, Meadow Pipits(IW, Alan Thomas)

Hainault Forest CP:

• 3 Nuthatches, Treecreeper, 2 Coal tit, 3 Goldcrests,
• 20 Redwing.
• flocks of Long Tailed Tits, Blue Tits, Great Tits
• Chaffinch
• Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Wren, Dunnock, Robin
• 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove
• Mute Swans, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Jay, Jackdaw, Starling,
• 71 Canada Goose, Mallard, Coot, Moorhen,
• Lapwings
• Black Headed Gulls, Lesser Black Backed Gulls, 3 Common Gulls, (IW, Alan Thomas)

Roding Valley NR: (just outside the borough)

• 3 Wigeon; 18 Shoveler;
• Green Sandpiper;
• Grey Wagtail;
• 22 Fieldfare; 9 Redwing. (BJ)

Woodford Green:

• 30 Redwing (Howard Anderson)

Hainault Forest CP:

• December WEBS Count by Steve Bacon
• 4 Mute Swan, 1 Greylag Goose, 5 Canada Geese,
• 24 Mallard, 2 Shoveler, 1 Tufted Duck
• 8 Moorhen, 10 Coot
• 31 Black Headed Gull, 6 Common Gull, 2 Lesser Black Backed Gull

Woodford Green:

• 1 Lapwing on the playing field on Broadmead Estate (DEH)

South Woodford:

• This morning I saw a Great Spotted woodpecker in my garden in S woodford (at the peanut feeder) for the first time in the 6+ years I've lived here. Hopefully will return
• Also saw a Grey heron fly over a few mins later.
• Lots of House Sparrows, Great tits, Blue tits, Dunnocks, Robins, Blackbirds, Starlings, Gulls, Wood Pigeons, Carrion Crows and Magpies (Peter Gordon)

Hainault Lodge NR:

• Jackdaws - Quite a number in trees
• Robins, Blue tits, Great tits, Wren, Dunnock, Long tailed tits, Blackbirds (IW/AT)

Barkingside Recreational Ground:

• Song Thrush, Woodpigeons, Blackbirds, Robins, Dunnock, Wren, Blue tits, Black Headed Gulls, Carrion Crows. (AThomas)

Forest Gate: (just outside the borough)

• male Blackcap in a Capel Road garden (PFerris)

December 20th 2009

Fairlop Waters CP:

• **Slavonian Grebe** in the NW corner of the Boating Lake (Steve Bacon)
• This is the first site record for 10 years+
• 150 Fieldfare, 40 Redwing
• 2 Sparrowhawk
• 15 Skylark
• Woodcock

Hainault:

• c20 Lapwings in Fairlop Primary School Playground (Colvin Gardens/Tomswood Hill).

Gants Hill:

• garden sightings
• Dunnock - 1
• Coal Tit - "Yes finally come back to visit" seen first at 10.19am then again during BTO hour survey feeding from feeders.
• Grey Heron - Flying past low just a couple feet over garden fence probably checking out our pond to no avail as there are no fish in it closely followed by a Carrion Crow and then two Magpies.
• Blue tits - 5, Great tits - 2, Robin - 1, House Sparrows - 10, Starlings - 5, Chaffinches - 6, Greenfinches - 7, Magpie - 1, Goldfinch - 1, Feral Pigeons - 9, Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 male, Blackbird - 1 Female

Wanstead Park:

• female Goldeneye still
• Snipe, Kingfisher, 5+ Siskin
• Grey Wagtial
• Tawny Owl
• (JL/TH)

Wanstead:

• Nuthatch in St Mary's Churchyard (TH/JL)

Wanstead Flats:

• 2 Little Grebe
• 6 Lapwing,
• 36 Skylark,
• 130+ Common Gull, 25 Lesser Black-backed Gulls,
• 23 Redwing (mostly in flight),
• 8 Meadow Pipit,
• 3 Green Woodpeckers (S Fisher);
• plus m Goosander flew NW @ ~9am,
• 2 Stonechat (J Lethbridge)

Hainault Farmland:

• famle Kestrel perched on a bush near City Limits

Roding Valley Nature Reserve: (just outside the borough)

• 3 Wigeon, 8 Gadwall, 6 Shoveler, 8 Pochard,
• 30 Lapwing; 19 Fieldfare; 31 Redwing. (BJ)

Chigwell Convent: (just outside the borough)

• c10 Redwing

Barking Park: (just outside the borough)

• Little Egret (PVaughn)

Epping Forest, Loughton Camp: (just outside the borough)

• 3 Bramblings (APe)
• Firecrest, Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreepers, 3 Coal tits, 10 Redwings. (IW)

Chingford: (just outside the borough)

• female Blackcap in garden (IWoodward)

Woodford Bridge:

• c40 Lapwing flying over from Claybury Park (AHobson)

December 19th 2009

Roding Valley Nature Reserve: (just outside the borough)

• pair of Grey Wagtail
• 18 Fieldfare, 7 Redwing

Wanstead:

• Lapwing (over the garden)
• 25 Redwing (west) (JLethbridge)
• 4 Lesser Redpoll (at feeder in the garden) (SFisher)

Wanstead Park:

• 93 Gadwall, 18 Pochard, 10 Little Grebe
• 2 Siskin
• 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker,
• 10 Redwing, 1 Mistle Thrush, 5 Song Thrush
• singing Coal Tit
• 1 Reed Bunting
• 2 Greylag Geese flew over
• female Goldeneye still present on Heronry Pond (SFisher)
• Snipe on the plain
• 16 Fieldfare over the plain
• Goldfinches near Perch pond
• 12 Lapwing over the plain (JLethbridge)

Wanstead Flats:

• 138 Common Gulls
• 2 Snipe (SFisher)

Former Landfill Site, Woodford Bridge: (just outside the borough)

• The former landfill site between Ashtons playing field, and West Hatch School
• Meadow Pipit
• Great Tit, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Greenfinch

Higher Ground United Reformed Church, Woodford Bridge: (just outside the borough)

• 10 Greenfinches

December 18th 2009

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• flock of c12 Greenfinch
• Party of Long Tailed Tits
• (Alan Hobson)

South Park:

• Mute Swan, Canada Geese, Mallard, c15-20 Tufted Duck, Coots, Moorhens
• 4 Shoveler (2 pairs)
• Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe
• Mistle Thrush
• Robin, Wren, Blue Tit, 2 Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch
• 20-30 Collared Doves on the Island

December 17th 2009

Farmland, Fairlop:

• c300 Lapwing, and 148 Golden Plover on the field east of Hainault Road opposite Painters Road junction at 2pm (DEH)

Ilford, South Park Drive:

• Little Egret (over) (JMakengo)

Valentines Park:

• 9 Shoveler (4 pairs on the fish pond, and 1 lonely eclipse male on Long Water
• 11 Tufted Duck on Long Water
• 2 Egyptian Geese feeding on the grass by fish pond
• Grey Heron on the Island
• c50 Carrion Crows and a few Jackdaws
• Great Spotted Woodpecker heard
• 14 Chaffinches (mostly female) feeding on the ground by fish pond

Hainault:

• 3 Long Tailed Tits in the garden (first for several months) (EBarnes)

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Kestrel
• 2 Song Thrush
• Lesser Black Backed Gulls
• 2 flocks of Long Tailed Tits
• flock of Greenfinches
• Little Egret (Alan Hobson)

Wanstead:

• flock of about 15 Lesser Redpoll still bouncing about in my garden (JL)

Wanstead Park:

• female Goldeneye still on Heronry (JLethbridge)

Woodford Green:

• garden sightings: 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• 12 Redwing
• 1 Siskin, 3 chaffinch, 20 greenfinch, 2 goldfinch,
• 1 wren, 3 robin,
• 10 blue tit, 5 great tit, 3 long Tailed tit through,
• 2 blackbird, a million starlings (or so it seemed),
• 2 collared dove, 5 wood pidgeon,
• 3 jackdaw, 1 jay, 4 magpie. (PWarne)

December 16th 2009

Wanstead:

• garden sightings.
• 2 Goldfinch, 16 Lesser Redpoll, 5 Greenfinch, 2 Chaffinch, 5 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit (J Lethbridge).

Ilford:

• 2 Jackdaws over Linton House at 3pm

December 15th 2009

Fairlop Waters CP:

• Mute Swan, 140 Canada Geese, 4 Greylag Geese, Mallard, Tufdted Duck, 4 Gadwall, 4 Shoveler, Coot, Moorhen, Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe
• Grey Heron, Cormorant
• Black Headed Gulls, Common Gulls, Lesser Black Backed Gulls
• 3 Green Woodpecker
• Pied Wagtail
• Wood Pigeon, Feral Pigeon
• 120 Fieldfare, 20 Redwing, Song Thrush, Blackbird, 2 Dunnock, Robin, Wren
• 2 Kestrel (1 male, 1 female)
• Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit,
• 2 Jay

Hainault Road, Fairlop:

• c100 Lapwing spread out over the fields
• 1 male Pheasant north of Painters Road
• 2 Kestrel

Billet Road Farmland, Fairlop:

• Grey Heron in the field.

Hainault Golf Course:

• 10 Canada Geese, 12 Mallard, 12 Moorhen on the 3 little ponds.
• 5 Green Woodpecker, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Blue Tits, Great Tits, 2 parties of Long Tailed Tits
• 9 Pheasant on the adjoining farmland (6 male, 3 female)
• 4 Fieldfare, 1 Redwing, Song Thush, Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock, Wren
• 2 Goldfinch
• Jackdaws (over)
• 4 Jay

Five Oaks Lane, Hainault:

• 4 Greenfinch

Roding Valley Park, northern section:

• Woodford Bridge north side
• Little Egret (Alan Hobson)
• Kestrel

Woodford Library:

• Redwing
• 3 Goldfinches (Alan Hobson)

Wanstead Park:

• 2 Little Grebe, 6 Mute Swan, 9 Pochard, 14 Tufted Duck, female Goldeneye, 20+ Mallard, 8 Gadwall,
• 100 Black Headed Gull, 1 Common Gull,
• 5 Ring Necked Parakeet,
• 5 Robin, 2 Blackbird, 4 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush,
• Jay, 8 Magpie, 4 Crow; (JLethbridge)

Wanstead:

• 7+ Linnet over my garden at 9:50am (J Lethbridge).

December 14th 2009

Woodford Green:

• 5 Black Headed Gull, 2 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 2 Common Gull and 1 Yellow-Legged Gull on Broadmead playing field this afternoon at 2pm

Roding Valley Park, southern section:

• Charlie Browns to Redbridge roundabout.
• 46 Mallard, 17 Moorhen (1 of which i thought was a Little Grebe as it disappeared under water and stayed there for over 1 minuite, it then appeared again to reveal its true identity - a juv Moorhen!
• male Kestrel near the Thames Water building
• Long Tailed Tits with Blue Tits and Great Tits
• Song Thrush, Robin, c10 Wren, Blackbird
• Kingfisher just south of Charlie Browns
• Great Spotted Woodpecker

Roding Valley Park, central section:

• Charlie Browns to Woodford Bridge.
• 19 Mallard, 12 Moorhen
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Kingfisher, seen 3 times, but probably the same bird as above, as seen flying from the southern section, under Charlie Browns roundabout.
• Grey Wagtail near the rubbish dump.
• 2 parties of Long Tailed Tit, Blue Tits, Great Tits
• 2 Goldfinch near snakes lane east junction.
• Song Thrush, Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock, Wren
• Grey Heron asleep in the middle of the river. (DEH)
• Little Egret (Alan Hobson)

Roding Valley Park, northern section:

• Little Egret, presumably the same bird as above (Alan Hobson)

Hainault Forest CP:

• 120 Canada Geese in the flock today. (TLachhar)

Hainault:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Jay
• Song Thrush
• Goldfinches and our first Greenfinch in ages
• (garden birds - EBarnes)

Forest Gate: (just outside the borough)

• female Blackcap in a Capel Road garden (PFerris)

December 13th 2009

Farmland, Fairlop:

• c110 Golden Plover
• c300 Lapwing
• (both on the field east of Hainault Road, opposite Painters Road)

Painters Road, Fairlop:

• male Kestrel on a lamp column

Hainault:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Jay
• Goldfinches (all on our feeders)
• Buzzard, disappeared over Claybury Park!
• (EBarnes)

Gants Hill:

• BTO garden survey 10.05-11.05am
• Sparrowhawk - seen at 10.59am with a short burst of flight then gliding over back garden and over the houses adjacent which scattered pigeons from my garden and surrounding gardens.
• Blue tits - 8, Great tits - 2,
• Robin - 1, House Sparrows - 14, Chaffinches - 6, Greenfinches - 5, Starlings - 6,
• Magpies -2, Feral Pigeons - 7,
• Plus - 2 Squirrels
• Later sightings pm in garden as follows: Great Spotted Woodpecker - c1 (Male)
• Goldfinches - 2
• Wood Pigeon - 1
• (Alan Thomas)

Woodford Green:

• 3 Mistle Thrush,
• Blue Tit,
• 2 Pied Wagtail (Broadmead Estate)

Claybury Park:

• 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker
• Mistle Thrush, flock of Redwings
• 5 Jay
• Small party of Long Tailed Tits
• (Alan Hobson)

Roding Valley NR: (just outside the borough)

• 22 Fieldfares. (BJ)

Ilford:

• Tavistock Gardens, garden sightings
• 2 Long tailed tits, 27 House Sparrows, 2 Robins, 12 Wood Pigeons, 7 Blue tits, 6 Great Tits, Collared Dove, 2 Starlings, Blackbird, Dunnock (PVaughn)

Connaught Water: (just outside the borough)

• male Smew (PWarne)

December 12th 2009

Wanstead Park:

• 3 Little Grebe, 15 Pochard, 25 Tufted Duck, 3 Shoveler, 18 Gadwall,
• female Goldeneye still (mega!),
• 2 Grey Heron, 2 Cormorant over,
• 3 Green Woodpecker, 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• 3 Ring-necked Parakeet,
• 2 Pied Wagtail,
• 2 Redwing,
• Chiffchaff,
• 20+ Chaffinch (Old Sewage Works), Goldfinch, 3 Greenfinch,
• 2 Jay (J Lethbridge)
• Firecrest in Resevoir Wood (PFerris)

Farmland, Fairlop:

• c110 Golden Plover on the field east of Hainault Road, opposite Painters Road.

Hainault:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Jay
• Goldfinches (all on our feeders)
• (Eddie Barnes)

Mayesbrook Park: (just outside the borough)

• Great Crested Grebe, 4 Little Grebe, 8 Pochard, 38 Tufted, 68 Gadwall, 22 Shoveler, 2 Little Egret, Grey Wagtail, 3 Cormorant, Redwing.(PHa)

Ilford, Tavistock Gardens:

• 2 Goldcrest (PVaughn)

Barking Park: (just outside the borough)

• Little Egret (PVaughn)

Connaught Water: (just outside the borough)

• male Smew (PWarne)

December 11th 2009

Ashtons Playing Field, Woodford Bridge:

• male Sparrowhawk, seen from M11

Eagle Pond:

• Grey Heron, Cormorant
• 4 adult Grey Heron
• 3 Gadwall plus the usual wildfowl
• c70 Black Headed Gull
• 75 Feral Pigeon

Tarzy Wood, Wanstead:

• Chaffinch, 4 Great Tit, 6 Blue Tit
• 5 Blackbird, Robin, Wren
• 5 Redwing,
• 4 Siskin

Christchurch Churchyard, Wanstead:

• 8 Goldfinch, 2 Chaffinch, 3 Greenfinch
• Ring Necked Parakeet
• Blackbird, Wood Pigeon

Cold Blow Farm, Fairlop:

• 295 Lapwing (on the field east of Hainault Road, opposite the junction with Painters Road
• 2 Fieldfare
• Jackdaw (over)

Fairlop Waters:

• 2 Little Grebe on the fishing lake
• 5 Goldfinch in the sailing club car park
• Blackbird, 3 Fieldfare, Redwing, Robin, Wren
• Black-headed Gull, Herring Gull,
• Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit
• Mute Swan, Canada Goose, Mallard, Gadwall, Shoveler (lagoon), Tufted Duck, Teal, Coot, Moorhen
• Grey Heron,
• Great Crested Grebe,
• Carrion Crow, Magpie, Jay, Wood Pigeon, Starling
• Green Woodpecker,
• Greenfinch,
• Kestrel (DEH/NTwyford)

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Song Thrush
• 2 Herring Gull, 2 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 2 Common Gull
• Long Tailed Tit (Alan Hobson)

Lords Bushes: (just outside the borough)

• male Sparrowhawk

Hainault:

• Jay
• Goldfinches
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• (on our feeders), (EBarnes)

December 10th 2009

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• male Blackcap
• 12 Goldfinches
• Long Tailed Tits
• Kingfisher on the private fishing lake off Roding Lane North.
• Song Thrush,
• Jackdaw
• (Alan Hobson)

Wanstead Park:

• Firecrest (JLethbridge/SFisher)

Valentines Park:

• 5 Mute Swan, 49 Canada Geese, 2 Egyptian Geese
• 128 Mallard, 21 Tufted Duck, 5 Shoveler (3m, 2f), 5 male Pochard
• Great Crested Grebe
• 95 Coot, 38 Moorhen
• 2 Grey Heron
• 340 Black Headed Gull, 4 Common Gull
• Mistle Thrush, Great Tit, Blue Tit, 5 Chaffinch, Jackdaw

December 9th 2009

Woodford Bridge Pond:

• 41 Black Headed Gulls, 1 Common Gull

Ray Park:

• Mistle Thrush, Chaffinch, 4 Blue Tit
• Wood Pigeon, 3 Black Headed Gull

Wanstead:

• 5 Redwing north, over Belgrave Road (Tim Harris)

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge northwards:

• 17 Mallard and 7 Moorhen on the river
• 1 Little Grebe
• 4 Pheasant
• 6 Mistle Thrush, 5 Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush,
• 2 Robin, 3 Dunnock, 2 Wren
• 4 Chaffinch, 2 Goldfinch
• Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• Jay, Carrion Crow, Magpie,
• 31 Wood Pigeon

Bush Wood:

• escaped Hartlaub's Turaco at the junction with Leybourne Road. (THarris)

Buckhurst Hill: (just outside the borough)

• flock of Redwings feeding on the berries in Roebuck Lane (F&CLudlow)

Woodford Green:

• Firecrest still visiting private garden (KM)

Claybury Park:

• c25 Lesser Redpolls (including a male 'still' or 'already' in breeding plumage), Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch.
• Sparrowhawk,
• 5 Green Woodpeckers, 3 Great Spotted Woodpeckers,
• Song Thrush, 4 Mistle Thrushes, flock of Redwings,
• Grey Heron,
• Long Tailed Tits
• 6 Jays (Alan Hobson)

Valentines Park:

• Song Thrush and Mistle Thrush both in the yew tree behind the Mansion. (TLachhar)

Epping Forest, Strawberry Hill Ponds: (just outside the borough)

• 19 Mandarin
• 30 Redwing
• 26 Chaffinch, Blue Tit, Great Tit, 2 Firecrest (DHu)

Valentines Park:

• Great Crested Grebe pair, Little Grebe 1
• Great Cormorant, Grey Heron 2 (one on each pond)
• Mute Swan pair on small lake, Pair and 4 cygnets on boating lake
• Canada Geese, Egyptian Geese pair
• Mallard, Shoveler pair, Pochard 6 male, Tufted Duck, Moorhen, Coot
• Black-headed Gull, Common Gull
• Feral Pigeons, Wood Pigeons, Collared Dove
• Kingfisher 2 from brick bridge
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Pied Wagtail
• Wren, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, Mistle Thursh 1 singing lots about.
• Long-Tailed Tit
• Blue Tit, Great Tit
• Magpie, Carrion Crow, Jackdaw, Jay, Starlings
• Chaffinch, Siskin (JMillea U3A Birding Sightings)

December 8th 2009

Hatch Forest & Plain:

• female Sparrowhawk
• 2 Grey Wagtails on the River Ching
• An abundance of Great Tits, Blue Tits, and 3 parties of Long Tailed Tits, 1 of which had a Chiffchaff tagging along.
• 4 Jay, 2 Green Woodpecker, 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• 8 Redwing, Blackbird, Robin, Wood Pigeon, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Chaffinch

Whitehall Plain:

• 2 Jay
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch
• party of Long Tailed Tits
• Song Thrush in song.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker

Bancrofts School, Woodford:

• 1 Jackdaw on the ground by the entrance on Whitehall Road.

The Green, Woodford Green:

• 1 Jay, near the statue of Winston Churchill

Fairlop Waters CP:

• male Kestrel perched on the top of a small tree right by the entrance

Fairlop, Painters Road:

• male Kestrel flying low up the road, then onto a lamp column.

Seven Kings Park:

• 63 Black Headed Gulls, 15 Common Gulls
• Mistle Thrush, Blackbird
• Chaffinch
• 3 Pied Wagtails
• Lots of Magpies and Carrion Crows

Westwood Road Recreational Gound, Seven Kings:

• 67 Mallard, 2 Moorhen
• 2 Pied Wagtail
• 25 Feral Pigeon
• 8 Black Headed Gulls
• 3 Goldfinch, Robin, Blackbird, Blue Tit.

Aldborough Hatch:

• Green Woodpecker flew west over St. Peters Church.

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Kingfisher (morning, and again in the afternoon)
• Long Tailed Tit
• 1 Herring Gull, 1 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 1 Black Headed Gull, 1 Common Gull
• 2 Song Thrush (Alan Hobson)

December 7th 2009

Hainault Forest CP:

• 85 Canada Geese in the flock, 47 Starlings, 55 Black Headed Gulls
• (TLachhar)

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge to Charlie Browns:

• male Kestrel seen successfully hunting a mouse
• 2 flocks of Long Tailed Tit
• 3 Moorhen, 4 Mallard on the swollen river
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Chaffinch, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Blue Tit
• An Owl, that was either a Tawny or a Short Eared, seen flying low over the scrubland, but landed out of view, and i could not re-locate it. (DEH)
• 2 Kingfishers together (Alan Hobson)

Woodford Green:

• Firecrest in a private garden (birdguides)

December 6th 2009

South Park:

• 2 Mute Swan, 126 Canada Geese, 35 Mallard, 12 Tufted Duck
• 42 Coot, 27 Moorhen
• Little Grebe
• 2 Cormorant
• Long Tailed Tits and 1 Coal Tit on one of the islands

Fairlop Gravel Works, North Side of Painters Road:

• 2 Mute Swan
• 23 Pochard, 25 Tufted Duck, Gadwall, Shoveler, Teal

Epping Forest, Strawberry Hill Ponds to Loughton Camp: (just outside the borough)

• 9 Mandarin, female Sparrowhawk, Coal Tit, Firecrest. (MDD)

Knighton Woods:

• 8 Mandarin (4m 4f), Shoveler
• Nuthatch, Treecreeper
• 4 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• flocks of Redwing
• 4 Jay, Long tailed Tits
• (Alan Hobson)

Woodford Bridge:

• Yellow-Legged Gull on the grass outside Broadmead Baptist Church
  

December 5th 2009

Claybury Park:

• Sparrowhawk, Kestrel and Jay, all seen while driving up Tomswood Hill (JMakengo)
• Mallard, Moorhen, Common Gull, Lesser Black Backed Gull, Black HeadedGull (AHobson)
• Green Woodpecker, 5 Great Spoted Woodpecker, Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper,
• Redwing, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock, Wren
• 4 Jay, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Wood Pigeon, Stock Dove, Starling, House Sparrow
• 5 parties of Long Tailed Tit, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Firecrest
• Greenfinch, Chaffinch, male Bullfinch, (AHobson)

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge towards Buckhurst Hill:

• 8 Mallard, 3 Great Spotted Woodpeckers, 7 Long Tailed tits, 3 Jays,
• 1 Kingfisher,
• 30+ Starlings, 50+ Fieldfares, 2 Pied Wagtails 22 Black Headed Gulls.
• (Paul Rigby)

Fairlop:

• female Kestrel near the Fairlop Waters CP entrance

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• several hundred Lapwings
• 80+ Golden Plover
• 2 Little Grebe
• Linnet

Wanstead Park:

• Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe
• 4 Cormorant, 2 Grey Heron
• 8 Mute Swan, 13 Gadwall, 10 Mallard, 12 Pochard, 28 Tufted Duck
• Sparrowhawk
• 156 Black Headed Gull, 2 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 2 Herring Gull
• 40 Wood Pigeon, 2 Ring Necked Parakeet.
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker
• Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail
• 8 Wren, 7 Dunnock, 20 Robin, 17 Blackbird, 6 Redwing, Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush,
• 3 Firecrests. (2 still in Resevoir Wood, the 3rd bird is at the west end of Perch Pond).
• 1 Goldcrest, 2 Chiffchaff
• 50 Long Tailed Tit, Coal Tit
• 6 Chaffinch, 9 Greenfinch, 2 Goldfinch,
• 25 Starling, Jay, 10 Magpie, 3 Jackdaw, 20 Carrion Crow.
• Female Goldeneye is still on Heronry Pond.
• a Buzzard flew north in line with the River Roding from the Old Sewage Works
• (JLethbridge)

Wanstead Flats:

• Meadow Pipit (JLethbridge)

Buckhurst Hill: (just outside the borough)

• 6 Goldfinches on the lilac seeds in a private garden (Chris Marshall)

December 4th 2009

Claybury Park:

• Black Headed Gull, 5 Moorhens and 1 pair of Mallard on the pond
• 4 Fieldfare, Blackbirds, Robins, Wrens, 3 Dunnock
• 7 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker
• 2 Nuthatch, Treecreeper
• 4 parties of Long Tailed Tit
• Great Tits, Blue Tits, 2 Coal Tit
• Chaffinch, 4 Greenfinch, c10 Goldfinch
• Also: Wood Pigeon, Feral Pigeon, House Sparrow, Magpie Carrion Crow, 4 Jay (DEH)

Hainault Forest CP:

• 70 Canada Geese in the flock (TLachhar)

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Jay, 2 Song Thrush, Long Tailed Tits
• (Alan Hobson)

Bush Wood:

• Green Woodpecker, (heard yaffling from my garden), (JLethbridge)

Wanstead:

• Garden sightings
• female Blackcap,
• 2 Ring-necked Parakeets over SE towards Wanstead Flats,
• 7 Redwing.
• Goldfinch, Chaffinch
• Black Headed Gull, Common Gull, Lesser Black Backed Gulls, Herring Gulls (over)
• Collared Dove, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Blackbird, Robin, Wren
• Sparrowhawk
• (JLethbridge)

Ilford:

• Pied Wagtail on the roof of the Post Office in the town centre (TLachhar)

December 3rd 2009

Fairlop Waters CP:

• 2 Mute Swan, 89 Canada Goose, 63 Mallard, 47 Tufted Duck, 45 Teal, 7 Pochard, 4 Shoveler, 134 Coot, 55 Moorhen,
• 2 Little Grebe
• 3 Cormorants
• 39 Lapwing on the jetty
• 1 male Sparrowhawk, and 1 female Kestrel
• 2 Jay, 4 Green Woodpecker
• 2 Meadow Pipit, 4 Pied Wagtail,
• 1 Stock Dove, 3 Collared Dove, 2 Feral Pigeon,
• 48 Fieldfare, 3 Redwing, 3 Song Thrush, 12 Blackbird, 7 Robin, 2 Dunnock, 3 Wren
• 3 Great Tit, 20 Blue Tit, 11 Long Tailed Tit, Goldcrest,
• 3 Chiffchaff
• 8 Chaffinch, 6 Goldfinch, 3 Greenfinch
• Also: Black Headed Gulls, Common Gulls, Lesser Black Backed Gulls, Wood Pigeon, Carrion Crows, Magpies, 2 Starling.

Wanstead Flats:

• 25 Redwing, 4 Mistle Thrush (including 1 in song),
• 300+ Black-headed Gulls, 250+ Common Gulls, 60 Lesser Black- backed Gulls, 20 Herring Gulls,
• Green Woodpecker,
• Meadow Pipit (Tim Harris)

Wanstead:

• Grey Wagtail over my house (Jonathan Lethbridge)
  

December 2nd 2009

Valentines Park

• 3 Mistle Thrushes (fighting over territory)
• Robin
• 10 Starlings
• Sparrowhawk hunting (over) (Tajinder Lachhar)
  

Wanstead Park:

• 3 Great Crested Grebe, 8 Little Grebe, 8 Mute Swan, 12 Pochard, 30 Tufted Duck, 51 Gadwall, 40 Mallard,
  
• Kingfisher,
  
• 3 Siskin, Goldfinch
  
• female Sparrowhawk(J Lethbridge)

Woodford Bridge:

• c40 Mallard, 2 Canada Geese and 17 Moorhen (including the partial albino) on the pond by St. Pauls Church

Epping Forest, Knighton Woods:

• 10+ Jays
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers
• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
• several parties of Long Tailed Tits
• at least 6 Nuthatch
• 2 Coal Tits
• 3 Mandarin (2m 1f) & 15 Mallard on the pond.
• Song Thrush, c20 Redwing
  

Woodford Green:

• pair of Pied Wagtails right outside my window on Broadmead Estate

Gants Hill:

• 1 Grey Wagtail (Nigel May)
  

December 1st 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• A Snipe was released on Wanstead Flats this morning, after being found in the living room of a Leytonstone house this morning! It flew into the house through an open door, and then frantically flew around the house until the owner managed to catch it and 'box' it, where it calmed down, and remained until it was released. (Tim Harris)

Valentines Park:

• flock of about 8 Greenfinch in the tall trees by Valetines Mansion
• c70 Mallard on Long Water/Fish Pond.
• c10 Tufted Duck and 5 Shoveler on the Fish Pond (also the 'ornamental/pet' ducks that presented were 4 Mandarin, 6 Wood Duck, 3 Muscovy Duck)
  
• Grey Heron on the Island

Hainault Forest CP:

• 38 Shoveler, 8 Tufted Duck, Pochard, 72 Canada Geese,
  
• 2 Cormorants, 4 Mute Swan, 30 Mallard, 12 Moorhen, 5 Coot,
  
• 50 Black Headed Gulls, 2 Common Gulls,
  
• 2 Great Crested Grebes,
  
• Blackbird, Blue Tit, 10 Redwing, 10 Fieldfare (CIS)

Epping Forest, Strawberry Hill Pond: (just outside the borough)

• Firecrest, Goldcrest
  
• 15 Mandarin,
  
• Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker,
  
• Redwing,
  
• Sparrowhawk, (Simon Surtees)