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)