September 22nd 2010

Claybury Park:

• Hobby over Claybury Woods for around 10 mins just after 1pm
• 2 Sparrowhawk
• 10 Jays
• 2 flocks of Long Tailed Tits (Alan Hobson)

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• 2 female Pheasant
• 50+ Teal, 46 Pochard, 10 or so Tufted Duck, 7 Shoveler, plus the regular wildfowl.
• 6 Little Grebe
• Grey Heron, 81 Lapwing, 6 Green Sandpiper, Snipe
• 2 Kestrel both hovering over 'food'
• 4 Stock Dove,
• 17 Swallow (S), House Martin (S), 5 Meadow Pipit (S), 3 Pied Wagtail (S)
• also: Green Woodpecker, Jay, Whitethroat, Dunnock, 9 Linnet, 17 Goldfinch (DEH)

Fairlop Waters:

• 6 Mute Swan, including 2 cygnets, few Canada Geese, Greylag Goose, Mallard, 11 Tufted Duck, 3 Great Cresteb Grebe, 6 Litte Grebe, 3 Cormorant (over)
• 15 Lapwing on the island
• 98 Coot, c10 Moorhen
• Kestrel
• 11 Grey Heron, including 8 together on the field behind the scrape
• 2 Green Woodpecker,
• also: Lesser Black Backed Gull, c60 Black Headed Gull, 2 Common Gull, 1 male Pheasant, Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeon, Collared Dove, 3 Stock Dove, Blue Tit, Great tit, Long tailed tit, 3 Pied Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit, 2 House Martin, 2 Jackdaw, 10 Magpie, Carrion Crows, 3 Jay, 3 Goldfinch, 4 Greenfinch,
• also a Terrapin sunbathing on a rock by the pond on the golf course. (DEH)

Gants Hill, garden:

• female Blackcap in the back garden
• Chiffchaff in a tree in the road. (NTwyford)

Hainault Farm:

• 60+ Jackdaws with the hundred or so Carrion Crows
• 6 Stock Dove feeding with Wood Pigeons
• 40+ House Sparrow in the brambles in the field nearest Billet Road footpath entrance
• 2 Whinchat (1 male, and 1 female) together

Hainault Forest CP:

• 2 Grey Heron, pr Mute Swan with 2 cygnets, Canada Geese, Mallard
• Sparrowhawk
• Black Headed Gull
• 5 Swallows
• 16 Starling, 2 Blackbird, Jackdaw
• Long tailed Tit, Blue Tit, and Great Tits
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Muntjac Deer (TLachhar)

Wanstead Flats:

• (06.30-07.45): No sign of wryneck,
• but Kingfisher on Alexandra Lake,
• 4 Ring Necked Parakeet, 4+ Green Woodpecker, 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• fem Sparrowhawk (James Astley)
• 2 Hobby (1 by Angel pond, the other over W Park), 2 Sparrowhawk, Kestrel,
• f Stonechat (broom fields), 10+ Mistle Thrush,
• 6+ Skylark, 10+ MeadowPipit, Yellow Wagtail (over), 2 Pied Wagtail and 2 Grey Wagtail,
• 15 Ring Necked Parakeet,
• 80+ Swallow (south),
• 6+ Chiffchaff,
• 5 Shoveler, 19 Gadwall, 2 Pochard, 1 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Grebe,
• 4 Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Coal Tit (heard in with mixed tit flock) - looks like the wryneck party's over (Nick Croft)
• I walked over to Wanstead Park this afternoon via Wanstead Flats, in the hope of seeing the Wryneck again. Although I didn't manage to see our local celebrity myself on this occasion, I did bump into two other ladies on the Flats, who had come from Central London especially to see the Wryneck - and they did manage to see it, so it was still around yesterday after all, which is good news. (Kathy Hartnett)

Wanstead, Windsor Road:

• Great Black-backed Gull over this afternoon, garden tick;
• also 2 Sparrowhawk, 4 Mistle Thrush (J Lethbridge)

Wanstead Park:

• Little Egret over the roding
• juv Hobby by Ornamental Waters, then on towards the Old Sewage Works area
• And at the Shoulder of Mutton Pond, the missing adult Swan and one cygnet which I recently reported (who were then subsequently seen over at Jubilee Pond on Wanstead Flats) have now returned, so the family is complete again, ie two adults plus seven cygnets. (Kathy Hartnett)