March 26th 2010

weather: warm sunny day!

Fairlop Waters CP:

• first (extremely early) Swift of the year
• Green Woodpecker
• 1 Gadwall
• 2 Great Crested Grebe
• Greenfinch
• Black Headed Gull, Common Gull, Herring Gull
• Cormorant
• Canada Geese, 5 Greylag Geese
• Chiffchaff, Wren (Tony Leaderman)

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• 4 Shelduck, 25 Tufted Duck, 14 Shoveler, 9 Teal
• 6 Snipe, 2 Redshank, 5 Lapwing, 2 Green Sandpiper
• female Peregrine chasing a small bird
• c10 Pied Wagtail, Meadow Pipit
• 2 Linnet
• male Reed Bunting singing
• Song Thrush

Fairlop, Aldborough Riding School:

• Little Owl in that tree!

Valentines Park:

• pair of Grey Heron on nest
• pair of Great Crested Grebe
• pair of Green Woodpecker in a Cedar tree
• 3 Mistle Thrush
• Goldcrest (Barbara J)

Wanstead, Windsor Road:

• Red Kite S/SE pursued by Crows at 2:25pm. Then flew over Wanstead Flats. The bird was also been seen over Leytonstone 5 mins earlier, and another (or possibly the same bird was south over Stewardstone Marsh at 11am) (JLethbridge)

Wanstead Park:

• Water Rail still in the Dell
• Grey Wagtail in the Dell
• 3 singing Chiffchaff in the old sewage works
• Great Crested Grebe on Perch Pond (THarris)