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)