March 12th 2010

weather: 8C max, Showers

Ray Park, Woodford Green:

• 29 x Black Headed Gull,9 X Common Gull
• 35 X Starling
• 1 x Song thrush
• Kestrel hovering over the houses behing Ray Lodge School (TLachhar)

Roding Valley Park, central:

• 45 Redwings, 7 Song Thrushes, Mistle Thrush,
• 2 Jays,
• 3 small flocks of Long-tailed Tits,
• 6 Common Gulls, Cormorant,
• Jackdaw,
• 3 Greenfinches (Alan Hobson).

The Green, Woodford Green:

• Green Woodpecker
• 5 Black Headed Gulls (ECharles)

Wanstead Park:

• Water Rail (The Dell);
• 14 Stock Doves,
• 2 Goldfinches (old sewage works);
• Great Crested Grebe (Perch Pond) (Tim Harris)

Wanstead Flats:

• Great Black-backed Gull south over Capel Road at 08:40.: (Tim Harris)

Woodford Green, Vicarage Road:

• Mistle Thrush outside St. Judes Court (AHobson)

Woodford Green, garden:

• 1 male Blackcap (pic attached)
• 2 Jay
• 12 Greenfinch
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker (1m,1f)
• 3 Jackdaw many starling
• 3 Chaffinch
• 4 Blackbird
• 2 Dunnock (PWarne)

Woodford Green, Holly Crescent: (just outside the borough)

• 15 Redwing
• 4 Carrion Crow, 5 Wood Pigeon (ECharles)

Mayesbrook Park: (just outside the borough)

• Little Egret,
• Green Woodpecker and Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• Long Tailed Tits nest building,
• 20 Redwing inc 3 singing,
• 12 Gadwall, 10 Shoveler.(Paul Hawkins)