March 7th 2010

weather: 4C, sunny but cold

Clayhall:

• Kestrel over Woodford Avenue (JMakengo)

Fairlop Gravel Works, Area D:

• 40 Shoveler, 28 Teal
• 4 Snipe
• 2 Meadow Pipit
• 26 Stock Dove together in a flock
• 13 Linnet
• 1 Grey Wagtail oddly following a Pied Wagtail around
• male Kestrel hunting and being mobbed by a Crow
• 2 Pheasant
• 1 Mistle Thrush, 3 Song Thrush

Hainault Recreational Ground:

• 40 Fieldfare

Hatch Forest:

• 6 Wood pigeon, 5 Magpie
• 4 Robin , 1m 2f Blackbird
• 15 Great Tit, 5 Blue Tit, 2 Coal Tit
• 25 Carrion Crows
• 3 Chaffinch
• 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Andrew Perrin)

South Park:

• 2 Mute Swan, 2 Greylag Geese
• 38 Tufted Duck, 2 Pochard (1m, 1f)
• 1 Little Grebe
• Mistle Thrush, 3 Wren
• 2 Greenfinch
• 2 Jay

Valentines Park:

• Black Headed Gulls, Common Gulls, Herring Gull
• Mute Swan, Canada Goose,
• Cormorant, Grey Heron
• Mallard, Pochard, Tufted Duck
• Coot, Moorhen
• Carrion Crow, Magpie, Jay, Starling, House Sparrow
• Wood Pigeon, Feral Pigeon, Collared Dove
• Redwing, Blackbird, Robin
• Chaffinch, Great Tit, Blue Tit (MSevoir)

Wanstead Flats:

• 200+ Black-headed Gulls, Lesser Black backed Gull, 30+ Common Gulls, Herring Gull,
• Tufted Ducks, 2 Female Pochards, Mallards, 4 Greylag Geese, Mute Swans, 16 Shovelers (mixed Male and Female)
• 30+ Coots, Moorhens
• Pied Wagtail
• 30+ Canada Geese, Little Grebe (Dabchick)
• Wood Pigeons, Feral Pigeons
• 40+ Carrion Crows, 20+ Jackdaws
• Goldfinch (flying over, singing), Blue Tit (singing in tree) (Emma Charles)

Wanstead Park:

• Water Rail,
• 5 Ring-necked Parakeets,
• Sparrowhawk,
• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Heard in the Dell)
• 2 Green Woodpeckers, 4 Great Spotted Woodpeckers,
• 4 Stock Doves,
• 2 Song Thrushes, 2 Mistle Thrushes, 2 Wren
• Jay,
• Long-tailed Tit,
• Redwing,
• pr Gadwalls, 4 Cormorants. (Alan Hobson)

Roding Valley Nature Reserve: (just outside the borough)

• Fieldfare; 5 Redwing; 18 Lesser Redpoll. (BJ)