January 10th 2010

Barkingside:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker in the neighbours garden (Tony Leaderman)

Claybury Park:

• Brambling, 5 Lesser Redpoll,
• Fieldfare, 2 Redwing, Song Thrush
• Flock of Goldfinches (Alan Hobson)

Fairlop, Aldborough Road North:

• Little Owl on a telegraph pylon, 6pm (DEH)

Fairlop Waters CP:

• Water Rail by the jetties showing well.
• Redwing, Fieldfare
• Among my 31 ticks this morning I also saw Green Woodpecker,
• loads of Pochard and Wigeon
• a Wren,
• Kestrel,
• Common Gulls and Lesser Black Backed Gulls. (Tony Leaderman)

Ilford, Ley Street:

• 10 Redwing (DEH)

Ilford Baptist Church:

• Pied Wagtail

Wanstead Park:

• Water Rail at the Dell,
• male Firecrest (Reservoir Wood),
• 8 Little Grebe, 8 Pochard, 2 Gadwall, 220 Coot, 34 Moorhen,
• Grey Wagtail (The Basin)
• 6 Song Thrush, Sparrowhawk (SFisher)
• Goldcrest (still in conifers left of grotto, walking away from Dell)
  5 Ring Necked Parakeets - 1 on its own, 4 together
  Canada geese, 4 Greylag Geese, 6 Pochard, Mallard, Coot, Moorhen, Little grebe,
• Grey Heron, Tufted Duck, Gadwall, Mute Swans
• Common and Black Headed Gulls and 1 Herring Gull
• Magpies, Jackdaws (over), Carrion Crows, 2 Jays
• 2 Green Woodpeckers
• Blue Tits, Great Tits, Long-Tailed Tits, Robins, Wrens, Chaffinch, Dunnock, Starlings, Blackbirds, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Redwings, Wood Pigeons, Feral Pigeons
• (Sally Hammond)
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers drumming in Resevoir Woods (Kathy Hartnett)

Wanstead Flats:

• 5 Shoveler (Alexandra Pond),
• c250 Common Gulls,
• 3 Mistle Thrush, 2 Kestrel,
• 8 Skylark (Flats), (S Fisher).

Woodford Green, Broadmead Estate:

• pair of Pied Wagtails

Roding Valley NR: (just outside the borough)

• Little Egret;
• pr Mandarin; 4 Pochard;
• Kestrel;
• 3 Snipe; male Blackcap;
• 5 Fieldfare (BJ)

Barking, Cavendish Gardens: (just outside the borough)

• Woodcock (per CS)

Collier Row, Birds Farm Avenue: (just outside the borough)

• 30 Redwing
• male Blackcap (Ian Phillips)

Epping Forest, The Charter Road and Oak Hill: (just outside the borough)

• Firecrest, Nuthatch, Coal Tit,
• Great-spotted woodpecker (Ian Woodward)

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

• 56 Mallard, 5 Gadwall, 13 Pochard, 5 Tufted duck, 11 Canada geese, 81 Coot, 12 Moorhen,
• Little Egret,
• Sparrowhawk,
• Fieldfare (Ian Woodward)

Forest Gate, Barwick Road: (just outside the borough)

• 17 Redwing, Fieldfare (Eve Wee)