November 01, 2010

November 1st 2010


Fairlop Waters:
  • c60 Fieldfare (west at 9am) (DEH)

Gants Hill, Roll Gardens:

  • 1 Coal tit - still present week 4 comencing
  • 5 Greenfinches, 4 Goldfinches, 5 Blue tits, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker - Heard

Wanstead Flats:

  • (06:30-11:30): f Merlin (south, low along the main path across broom fields),
  • large unidentified falcon (appearing uniformly light grey, with fairly rounded wing tips, the size of a Peregrine) along the south side of Long Wood and then west),
  • Ring Ouzel (alarm call heard only, in with Blackbird, Song Thrush, Robin, Chaffinch, tits and Magpie mobbing some unfortunate bird of prey - presumably a Tawny Owl) tried to find it for an hour and only could find possible first winter bird in scrub east of Alex,
  • 85 Redwing, 138+ Fieldfare, 15+ Blackbird, 10 + Song Thrush (including one singing in Long Wood), 4 Mistle Thrush,
  • 1,300+ Starling (west), 60+ Chaffinch, 20 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch, 4 Lesser Redpoll, 5 Siskin, 2 Reed Bunting and 50 unidentified finch (north/nw), 7 Goldcrest, 17 Meadow Pipit, 3 Pied Wagtail, 12 Skylark, 2 m Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, Greylag Goose and les autres (54 sp NC).

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