January 10th 2010

Hainault Forest:

• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 1 male,
• Goldcrest 1, Coal Tit 3, Treecreeper 2,
• Great Spotted Woodpecker 2,
• Long tailed Tit 8 (Steve Bacon)

Snaresbrook, Primary School, Meadow Walk:

• 8 Waxwings returned to the school first thing, and by lunchtime there were 66 Waxwing! at least 30 remained until dusk

Valentines Park:

• 1 Lil Grebe, 6 Mute Swan, 3 Greylag Goose, 55 Canada Goose, 2 Egyptian Goose, mallard, 9 pochard, 1 shoveler, tufted, coot, moorhen, kestrel, 400 bhgull, 7 common gull, feral and wood pigeon, 4 collared dove, 8 pied wag, 1 grey wagtail, wren, 4 mistle thrush, 45 redwing, 4 balckbird, 6 great, 7 blue, 11 long tialed tit, 4 magpie, crows, 150 starling, 17 house sparra, 9 goldfinch (Mike Condon)

Wanstead Flats:

• f Kestrel (at last), f Sparrowhawk,
  
• 52 Fieldfare, 80 + Redwing, 10 Mistle Thrush (1 singing), Song Thrush (singing),
  
• Goldcrest, Coal Tit (Alex island),
  
• m Teal, 4 Gadwall, 26 Shoveler, 20 Tufted Duck, 3 Pochard, 9 Greylag Goose,
  
• 7 Skylark (feeding in the centre circle of a football pitch),
  
• Reed Bunting, 11 Greenfinch, 6 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Great Black-backed Gull, Snipe (SSSI), 5 Pied Wagtail (NC/Steve Thorpe/Tim Harris).