October 9th 2010

Roding Valley Park, south:

• 1 Kingfisher - a first. I saw it 4 times and every time I was about to take a photo it flew off.
• 1 Kestrel - the male still there, I think that's 5 weeks now so looks like he's staying.
• 1 cormorant - again on the river like a couple of weeks ago
• 2 Moorhen
• 6 Jays
• Lots of gulls, mallards, crows, magpies, tits (PGordon)

Valentines Park:

• Green woodpecker
• Grey wagtail
• f pochard
• young Great Crested Grebe - interesting views of it swimming underwater near the island where it's shallow, 4 little grebe
• 2 cormorant (Barbara J)
• possible male Merlin through

Wanstead Flats:

• Today's word is "Visimig" brought to you by the number "shed-loads" - Lapland Bunting (flew over broom fields to south),
• 2+ Bramblings through north (NC)
• 2 Ring Ouzel still present (1 around Long Wood, showing well c.12:00 on the football pitches east of centre road, second bird in scrub east of Alexandra Lake but flew off east) (Stuart Fisher/NC/Marco Johnston/Rare Bird Alert),
• 2 Stonechat, 500+ Starling, 300+ Redwing (over), 30+ Song Thrush, 10+ Blackbird, 15+ Mistle Thrush, many Robin,
• 25 + Chaffinch, Goldfinch, 20+ Greenfinch, Siskin (north), 15 Linnet (1 flock of 14),
• 2 Reed Bunting,
• 40+ Meadow Pipit, 10 Pied Wagtail, 20+ Skylark,
• 40+ Jackdaw (1 flock),
• 4 Swallow (+ mixed flock of hirundines over south flats c.70),
• 2 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk,
• 2 Gadwall, 4 Tufted Duck, 4 Pochard, Shoveler, 8 Greylag Goose, Little Grebe, 4 Chiffchaff,
• 4 Lapwing (north), Snipe (SSSI - SF),
• Also:4 Cormorant, 4 Collared Dove and the usuals (54 sp NCrotf/SFisher/MJohnson)
• RSPB NELondon Walk: 9.30-2pm:
• 8 Mute Swan, c150 Canada Geese, 9 Greylag Geese, c50 Mallard, 3 Pochard, 4 Tufted Duck, 9 Gadwall, 2 Shoveler, 45 Coot, c10 Moorhen, 3 Cormorant (over),
• c100 Black Headed Gull, 2 Common Gull, 3 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 1 Herring Gull
• c5 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Ring Necked Parakeet
• c20 Skylark, c20 Meadow Pipit, few Pied Wagtail
• Kestrel (male)
• 9 Redwing (over), c6 Mistle Thrush, Blackbirds, Robins, Wrens, 2 Stonechat (pr), Blue and Great Tits, c5 Greenfinch, Chaffinch, few Goldfinch 7 Siskin (twice, so possibly 14), flock of 25 Lesser Redpoll near Centre Road
• flock of 47 Jackdaw, plenty of Magpie and Carrion Crow, and a few Jay, 150+ Starling, few Feral Pigeon, lots of Woodpigeons (42 species) (DE-Hull, TLachhar, et al)