October 18th 2010

Gants Hill, Roll Gardens:

• Coal Tit still feeding in the garden (AThomas)

Ray Park:

• 26 Black Headed Gulls,
• 4 Pied Wagtails (TLachhar)

Roding Valley Park, Central:

• Green Woodpecker, flock of Long-tailed Tits, plus at least 25 Mallards on one little stretch of the river by the road bridge [I have never seen so many Mallards on one stretch of the Roding in the decade I have been here].
• Redbridge Lakes: Grey Heron, 2 Pied Wagtails, and at least 6 Moorhens and 3 Coots (not a bad rate of colonisation given that the lakes weren't even there two years ago).
• Playing Fields: 2 Pied Wagtails, Song Thrush (ALan Hobson)

South Woodford, Garden:

• 1 Great spotted woodpecker - first since January!
• 1 Collared dove 3 Woodpigeon
• c. 10 house sparrows
• 1 Robin, 2 Great tit, 2 Blue tit, c. 15 starlings on nearby houses, 2 Carrion Crows and two very fat squirrels who have demolished the peanut feeder. (PGordon)

Valentines Park:

• Valentino the Mediterranean Gull showing well in the afternoon (PHopkins)

Wanstead, Wanstead High Road:

• 10 Ring Necked Parakeet over at 8.30 (PHopkins)

Wanstead Flats:

• October 18th: Wanstead Flats (07:00-11:30) visible migrationmostly north/north west:
• Lapland Bunting (NE),
• 200 + Chaffinch,19+ Greenfinch, 6 Siskin, 4 Lesser Redpoll, 10 Linnet, 14 Goldfinch, 7+ Brambling,
• Reed Bunting,
• 20+ Skylark, 20 + Meadow Pipit, 12 Pied Wagtail, 4 Grey Wagtail,
• 3 Fieldfare, Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, 20+ Blackbird, 15+ Mistle Thrush,
• Chiffchaff, 4 Goldcrest,
• 2 Swallow (south-east),
• 10 Ring Necked Parakeet, 3 Gadwall (south), 2 Shoveler, Pochard, Stock Dove, Collared Dove, c.200 Wood Pigeon, Kestrel, 2 Sparrowhawk etc (51sp NC/Sally Hammond).