March 3rd 2010

weather: 9C, cloudy with sunny spells

Knighton Woods:

• Nuthatch (heard)
• 3 Chaffinch (2m, 1f)
• 3 Mandarin (2m, 1f)
• 1 Shoveler, same male bird still slowly coming out of prolonged eclipse
• 9 Mallard (6m, 3f)
• 3 Moorhen
• 11 Magpie, 2 Carrion Crow (PWarne)

Valentines Park:

• 1 Great Crested Grebe on the boating lake
• 1 Little Grebe on the Ornamental Lake
• 1 Grey Heron (Boating lake), 1 Cormorant (Ornamental Lake)
• 8 Mute Swans (2 adults and 4 1st winter still on the boating lake.... if they dont kick their youngsters off soon, the adult pair may not breed this year!... Still, the additional pair are also still on the Ornamental Lake
• 20+ Canada Geese
• pair of Egyptian Geese
• 40+ Mallard
• 16 Pochard on the boating lake
• 40+ Coot, 7 Moorhen
• 20 Tufted Duck
• 100+ Black Headed Gull, 2 Common Gull, 2 Herring Gull
• 100+ Feral Pigeon, 60+ Wood Pigeon
• 10 Blackbird, 7 Robin, 2 Mistle Thrush, 100+ Redwing,
  
• 3 Long Tailed Tit, 4 Great Tit,
  
• 2 Magpie, 40+ Carrion Crows,
  
• 20 Starling, 6 House Sparrow,
  
• 4 Chaffinch and a Greenfinch
• (U3A Birding Group via JMillea)

Barking Park: (just outside the borough)

• 5 Shoveler, pr Sparrowhawk, 3pr Long-tailed Tit, m Pochard, 35 Tufted Duck, Green Woodpecker (HV)