Grange Hill, Long Green:
- male Bullfinch in the garden for 3 mins at 8am today (Ian Shaw)
Roding Valley Park, Central:
- the section between Roding Lane North and Chigwell Road (and surraounding playing fields)
- Grey Wagtail,
- 3 or 4 Whitethroats (including excellent views of male displaying), Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff,
- Jay, Song Thrush,
- Great Spotted Woodpecker,
- up to 4 Lesser Black Backed Gulls
- Greenfinch (Alan Hobson)
Wanstead Flats:
- (07:00-12:00): Wood Sandpiper (briefly touched down on Alexandra Lake twice before legging it North),
- Hobby (West over Alexandra Lake),
- 12 Cormorant, 9 Lesser Black-Backed Gull, Common Gull
- 7 House Martin, c. 30 Swift,
- numerous Starling in large groups of juv and adult, Skylark, Carrion Crow (c. 100 on both playing fields and fairground),
- Greenfinch, Chaffinch, 3 Linnet, 2 singing Reed Bunting,
- Wood Pigeon, Stock Dove,
- Pied Wagtail,
- 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker,
- 5 Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Robin, Dunnock, Wren, Meadow Pipit,
- Magpie, Jackdaw, 3 Jay,
- Blue Tit, Great Tit,
- Little Grebe, Canada Goose, Mute Swan, Mallard, 6 Tufted Duck (2 on Alexandra Lake, 4 on Jubilee pond), Moorhen, Coot (6 chicks still on round pond and defying all the odds–new nests popping up on Alexandra Lake and Jubilee Pond),
- Blackcap, 3 Chiffchaff, Whitethroat, (Nick Croft).
Wanstead Park:
- Little Egret (over East),
- 5 Sand Martin, c. 20 House Martin,
- 4 Song Thrush,
- Coots nest building all over the place–we could be knee deep in coots come the end of the summer!,
- Great Crested Grebe, Grey Heron,
- Ring Necked Parakeet,
- Reed Warbler (still on Shoulder of Mutton), 5 Chiffchaff, Whitethroat, Blackcap,
- Long Tailed Tit, Sparrowhawk,
- 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker
- 2 Cormorant
- Carrion Crow, Magpie, c.30 Jackdaw, 3 Jay, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Dunnock, Wren, House Sparrow, Moorhen, (Nick Croft).
Woodford Bridge, St. Judes Court:
- 2 Stock Doves on the green (8 pm). Only the second time I have seen them there in nearly 10 years of living here; they normally stay in Claybury. (Alan Hobson)
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