December 7th 2010

Aldborough Hatch:

• 7 Long Tailed Tit in the garden (CPoutney)

Claybury Park:

• Treecreeper, mixed flock of around 20 Siskins and Lesser Redpolls, 3 Coal Tits, 2 Green Woodpeckers, 3 Jays, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Stock Dove (first one I've seen here for months), and an extraordinary murder of around 350 Carrion Crows around the new play area. (AH)

Fairlop Waters:

• Flock of Fieldfare (70+)
  
• Long tailed tits (6+)
  
• Blue tits (5+), Great tits (4)
  
• Blackbirds (8+)
  
• Kestrel
  
• Group of female and male chaffinches (15+) (Alex Blackman)
  
  

Gants Hill, Roll Gardens:

• Coal Tit commnecing 10th week in the garden! (AThomas)

Valentines Park:

• Valentino the Mediterranean Gull showing today (after an absence of a few days, this was a welcome relief)
• Egyptian Geese, Shoveler, Pochard, Gadwall
• Grey Heron
  
• 5 Mistle Thrush and 5 Blackbirds feeding together in 1 yew tree
• Robin (RSherriff)
  

Wanstead Flats:

• 13 Waxwing (west),
  
• 11 Lapwing (south), 6 Shoveler,
  
• 2 Pied Wagtail, Meadow Pipit,
  
• 7+ Goldfinch, 2 Lesser Redpoll, 5 Goldcrest, Fieldfare, Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush etc (Nick Croft).

Wanstead Park:

• Treecreeper, Grey Wagtail (Steve Thorpe),
  
• 13 + Goldcrest, Chiffchaff, 2 Coal Tit,
  
• 30+ Lesser Redpoll, Siskin, 4 Bullfinch,
  
• 3 Skylark (1 north, 2 south),
  
• 3 Stock Dove, 17 Ring-necked Parakeet,
  
• 51 Tufted Duck, 10 Shoveler, 43 Gadwall, 54 Pochard, 20+ Teal (R Roding), 4 Little Grebe,
  
• 3 Grey Heron,
  
• Sparrowhawk (NC).