Collier Row, Car Boot Sale Field:
- 7pm: Flock of over 100 Rooks with the 100 Strong Carrion Crow murder, and a handful or 2 of Jackdaws... I wonder if this is a regular haunt.
- The Rooks were seen flying off about 7.45pm northward towards Lambourne/Abridge
Clayhall, Woodford Avenue:
- Sparrowhawk hunting (TLachhar)
Five Oaks Lane Scrubland:
- 3 Kestrel
- 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker
- Pheasant calling
- 1 Swallow
- 2 imm Redstart
- bizarrely, 11 Mistle Thrushes perched in a dead tree together, in silence.
- Garden Warbler
- 2 Munjack Deer
Valentines Park:
- 3 Great Crested Grebes (pr plus independant juv)
- Little Grebes, Pochards, Cormorant (GWare)
Wanstead Flats:
- (06:00-10:00): Yellow-legged Gull (yay patch tick) on football pitches next to the changing rooms @06:15 for ten minutes then flew off south, c.80 Black-headed Gull, 26 Lesser Black-backed Gull (including 14 in day roost by Alex), 4 Common Gull, 5 Herring Gull,
- 5 Sparrowhawk (group of 3 over cemetry, north), 2 Kestrel, Hobby over Bush Wood/Reservoir Wood but seen from the flats,
- Carrion Crow, 6 Jay, 10+ Magpie, 4 Jackdaw, 6 Cormorant,
- 3 Green Woodpecker, 2 Greater-spotted Woodpecker,
- 4 Mistle Thrush,
- possible Whinchat on the SSI (briefly in flight and unable to track down),
- 5 Chiffchaff, 6 Willow Warbler (including 1 singer), Whitehroat, 2 Lesser Whitethroat east of Long Wood, Blackcap,
- 4 Meadow Pipit,
- 2 Collared Dove, 3 Stock Dove,
- 2 House Martin (Nick Croft)
Wanstead Park:
- (10:00-15:00):Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (old sewage works), 2 Greater-spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker,
- c. 20 Sand Martin, c.10 House Martin (over Heronry Pond),
- numerous Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler, C. Whitethroat, 10+ Blackcap (old sewage works), and the sub-song mystery bird from the flats has now re-appeared but mobile in the old sewage works area,
- 2 Goshawk near Ornamental Waters
- Kingfisher (Roding/osw),
- Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe, 2 Shoveler, 3 Tufted Duck and 2 Gadwall (on Perch),
- Little Egret (west over), Grey Heron,
- 2 Kestrel (osw), Hobby calling over Bush/Reservoir Wood and later Ornamental Waters,
- 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 2 Herring Gull, c.20 Black-headed Gull,
- Song Thrush, Ring-Necked Parakeet, Stock Dove, Goldfinch, Greenfinch (Nick Croft)
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