April 21st 2010

weather: sunny and warm, slight breeze

Claybury Park:

• 5 Mallard, 3 Moorhen, 2 Coot
• Feral Pigeon, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove,
• Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Jay, Magpie, Carrion Crow
• Great Tit, Blue Tit, 6 Long Tailed Tit
• 2 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap
• Wren, Blackbird, Mistle Thrush, 3 Song Thrush, Robin, Dunnock
• Starling
• Chaffinch, Goldfinch (Pat Hart)

Fairlop, Aldborough Riding School:

• Little Owl in the usual tree 8pm, also seen flying from a post by the stables. (DEH)

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• 4 Mute Swan (pair on each side of Painters Road), the hen on the north side is now on nest
• 3 occupied Canada Goose nests located (2 north side, 1 south side)
• 1 Greylag Goose, 2 Shelduck, 6 Teal, 2 (pr) Pochard, 10 Tufted Duck, 2 (pr) Gadwall, 4 (2prs) Shoveler, 2 (pr) Great Crested Grebe, 4 (2prs) Little Grebe,
• 9 Lesser Black Backed Gulls
• Grey Heron
• Pheasant calling
• 2 Redshank, 6 Little Ringed Plover, 6 Lapwing, Common Sandpiper (first of the season), 3 Green Sandpiper, excellent summer plumage Dunlin, Snipe
• 25 Pied Wagtails, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit, Skylark singing,
• 7 Linnet
• 2 Blackcap (DEHull)
• female Redstart, north side of Painters Road (via Hainault Farm)

Fairlop Waters CP:

• 11 Mute Swan on the boating lake and another 2 (nesting) on the lagoon. (it appears that the boating lake has become the location for the non-breeding local swans to congregate as there is no breeding pair on the island this year.
• male Whinchat in the field between the Stables and the Lagoon
• Green Woodpecker
• 3 Pheasant (2 male, 1 female)
• Whitethroat, Chiffchaff
• male Sparrowhawk
• 2 Meadow Pipit
• 21 Linnet

Wanstead Park:

• Whitethroat, Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler,
• Ring Necked Parakeet,
• Little Egret (Nick Croft)

Wanstead Flats:

• Dunlin (am; Jubilee Pond, showing rather well–a patch mega by all accounts),
• Redstart, 2 Wheatear (female),
• Pheasant calling from Sidney Road copse
• 4 Herring Gull, 6 Common Gull, 2 Lesser Black-Backed Gull,
• Little Owl, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard (heard),
• 3 Swallow, 1 House Martin,
• Coal Tit,
• 5 Mistle Thrush,
• Lesser Whitehroat, Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap (Nick Croft)
• Dunlin still there at 15.00 but not seen at 17.10,
• Yellow Wagtail over (heard), Swallow through (S Fisher)

Woodford Green:

• Goshawk (KM)
  

Barking Park: (just outside the borough)

• 1 Fieldfare
• 6 House Martin