Fairlop Waters CP:
- walk from the Aldborough Riding School, past the lagoon, and along the footpath (by the golfcourse) to St. Peters Church Aldborough Hatch
- 4 House Martin and 4 Swallow
- 27 Meadow Pipit on the golf course
- 2 Yellow Wagtail on the paddock
- Chiffchaff (singing)
- Jay
- 2 Linnet
- male Pheasant seen (flew about 50 foot up into the air over an Oak), 2 others heard
- 2 Kestrel, 1 being mobbed by 2 Carrion Crows
- 4 Rook, and 4 Jackdaw over
- 4 Whinchat (possible 5th) (all female/juv)
- 2 flocks of Long Tailed Tit, 1 of which included Blue Tits, Great Tits, 5 Chiffchaff, 1 female Blackcap and a Lesser Whitethroat
- 5 Swallow and 2 House Martin
- flock of exactly 50 Linnet flitting about,
- well over 60 Meadow Pipit (including 2 flocks of over 20 birds each), all feeding
- 1 Spotted Flycatcher
- lots of Collared Dove, Feral Pigeon, Woodpigeon, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Robin, Wren, Chaffinch, Greenfinch (DEH)
Gants Hill, Roll Gardens:
- 2 Swallow (feeding high over) (AThomas)
Ilford, Ingleby Road:
- Chiffchaff with a flock of vaious tits in the garden (JCrick)
- male Pheasant, and Kestrel on Red House Farm (while driving by)
Valentines Park:
- several Tufted Ducks, 2 Cormorant, 3 Great Crested Grebe (GWare)
- (06:30-11:30):
- 08:40 - Wryneck still east of Alexandra Pond at 11.30 am showing rather nicely (Nick Croft/Paul Ferris/Tim Harris/Jonathan Lethbridge/Dominic Mitchell/LondonBirds Twitter).
- Also Redstart, 2 Whinchat both east of Alexandra Lake in scrub. Prior to all the hooha, Redstart (heard east of Long Wood),
- male Goshawk mobbed by crows over east plantation where it landed clearing out all the pigeons in the process,
- 4 Spotted Flycatcher,
- 2 Snipe (broom fields),
- Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat, Blackcap, 13 Chiffchaff, Goldcrest singing Alexandra Lake island and later in wood north of Alexandra Lake,
- 8+ Yellow Wagtail (south), Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, 50+ Meadow Pipit, 3 Skylark, 11 Swallow (south),
- 2 Goldfinch, 4 Linnet, 6 + Chaffinch, some unidentified finches flying south (possibly Siskin),
- 7 Green Woodpecker, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker,
- Mute Swan (the cygnets on Alexandra Lake have taken their first experimental flights), 8 Gadwall, 2 pr Shoveler, Little Grebe, 3 Mistle Thrush,
- Wheatear (on model aircraft runway - JL),
- 16 Ring Necked Parakeet,
- Common Gull (51 sp Nick Croft et al)
- Wryneck still showing well till 16:30 then became increasingly elusive, also 2 Willow Warbler, Yellow Wagtail over(S Fisher)
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