February 25th 2010

weather: 9C, cloudy, slight wind (8mph)

Bush Wood:

• Sparrowhawk, being mobbed by a few Crows
• 4 Wren, 7 Robin, 10 Blackbird, Song Thrush, Redwing
• 13 Blue Tit, 21 Great Tit, 1 Long Tailed Tit
• 5 Stock Dove, 14 Wood Pigeon, 2 Feral Pigeon (over)
• 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker
• 15 Carrion Crow, 11 Magpie, Jay, 2 Starling (TLachhar/DE-Hull)

Claybury Park:

• Woodcock
• Song Thrush singing (in the rain)
• Canada Goose, Mallard, Moorhen, Coot
• 2 Stock Dove, Woodpigeon
• Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker
• Jay, Magpie, Carrion Crow
• Great Tit, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tit
• Wren, Blackbird, Robin
• Chaffinch, Greenfinch (PHart)

Valentines Park:

• Valentino the Mediterranean Gull still present!
• 13 Pochard (PHopkins)
• pair of Egyptian Geese
• Great Crested Grebe
• 6 Cormorant!
• Grey Heron
• 2 Stock Dove
• Song thrush
• Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• 3 Goldfinch, 3 Greenfinch, 2 Long Tailed Tit
• 2 Jay, Jackdaw (Barbara J)

Wanstead Flats:

• the area either side of Centre Road
• c990 Common Gull (600 near Alexandra Lake, 200 nearer Bush Wood and others scattered. c650 Black Headed Gull, 5 Lesser Black Backed Gulls, 1 Herring Gull
• 136 Carrion Crows mostly in 2 large groups, 3 Magpie, 7 Jackdaw, Jay, 43 Starling
• 28 Wood Pigeon
• Ring Necked Parakeet, calling very enthusiastically from a hole in a tree in the plantation east of Centre Road.
• 15 Blue Tit, 10 Great Tit, 1 Long Tailed Tit
• 2 Greenfinch (pair)
• Blackbird, Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush, c20 Redwing, Robin, Wren, 2 Dunnock
• male Kestrel
• 5 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker
• 11 Skylark, including 5 singing males!
• 2 Meadow Pipit (TLachhar/DE-Hull)

Woodford Green, Broadmead Estate:

• 51 Black Headed Gulls
• 35 Feral Pigeon
• 2 Pied Wagtail
• Blackbird
• Jackdaw (heard)

Connaught Water: (just outside the borough)

• 50+ Tufted duck
• 1 male Red Crested Pochard
• 2 Pochard (m)
• Swan menacing Canada geese (PWarne)