September 28th 2010

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• 4 Grey Heron and 10 Cormorant
• Canada Geese numebrs picking up, and Mallard too.
• c20 Tufted Duck, c20 Pochard, 5 Shoveler, 69+ Teal, 6+ Little Grebe, Coot, Moorhen
• 70+ Lapwing, 2 Green Sandpiper, Snipe
• 7 Meadow Pipit (plus a distant flock of 50+ that assumed were Mipits too, but couldnt confirm),
• 8 Linnet
• 10 Stock Dove

Valentines Park:

• 3 Great Crested Grebe (2 adult, 1 juv), 3 Little Grebe (2 adult, 1 juv), 3 Cormorant on the boating lake
• 12 Mute Swan still, 1 hybrid Greylag Goose, Canada Geese, Mallards, few Tufted Ducks, 3 eclipse Shoveler (fish pond), 4 Pochard, (2 prs on the Boating lake), Coot, Moorhen, 4 Egyptian Geese on Long Water
• 1 Kestrel being mobbed
• Black Headed Gulls, 1 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 2 COmmon Gulls,
• Feral Pigeons, Woodpigeons, 3 Stock Dove,
• also: Pied Wagtail, Blackbird, Robin, Blue Tit, Great Tit, 12 Long Tailed Tit (bushes nr clock tower), Jay, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Starling, 2 House Sparrow (Brisbane Road), 1 male Greenfinch (Mike COndon)

Wanstead Flats:

• singing Lesser Whitethroat (confused me for about half an hour),
• 10+ Chiffchaff (3 singers), 1 Blackcap, Goldcrest,
• Stonechat, 5 Song Thrush, 20+ Mistle Thrush, Spotted Flycatcher,
• Little Owl,
• 2 Little Egrets (over east), Grey Heron,
• 16 Meadow Pipit (10 in 1 group), Pied Wagtail, 6 Grey Wagtail (west),
• 2 Linnet, Chaffinch, 16+ Skylark (again 10 in one flight),
• Also: 2 Pochard, 4 Gadwall, 11 Mute Swan on a training flight, Little Grebe, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 5 Ring Necked Parakeet, 2 Common Gull (NC).
• 2 Ring Ousel and 2 Spotted Flycatcher later (JLethbridge)