February 16th 2011

Barkingside, Fullwell Avenue:

• I was thrilled to see a little flock of about 12 Waxwing in Fullwell Avenue about 8.15 this morning. They were perched in a tree, then flew along the road a bit and perched again so I got a good look at them before they flew off in the direction of Barkingside High St. (Jan M-Ellis)

Claybury Park:

• Grey Heron,
• green woodpecker,
• blue/great/long-tailed and Coal Tits,
• redwing, a "charm" of ten goldfinches,
• Goldcrest,
• dunnock, house sparrow (max four together) (Eddie Barnes)
• Treecreeper, up to 2 Nuthatches, Coal Tit, Goldcrest,
• at least 6 Stock Doves, Grey Heron,
• up to 4 Green Woodpeckers, 2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers,
• around 8 Jays,
• 2 Canade Geese,
• Redwing, Song Thrush, half a dozen Goldfinches, 3 flocks of Long-tailed Tits (Alan Hobson)

Hainault, Hannover Gardens:

• Green and Great Spotted Woodpecker in my garden (Eddie Barnes)

Valentines Park:

• In Association with Redbridge U3A Birdwatching Group,
• Great Crested Grebe,
• Grey Heron,
• Mute Swan (4 ad) ,
• Canada Goose, Greylag Goose (3), Egyptian Goose (1) -ringed,
• Mallard, Tufted Duck, Pochard (4m, 4f + 1 hybrid pochard x tufted),
• Coot , Moorhen,
• Common Gull, Black-headed Gull, Mediterranean Gull – very black head,
• Feral Pigeon ,Wood Pigeon ,Collared Dove, Stock Dove,
• Green Woodpecker (1), Great Spotted Woodpecker(1),
• Pied Wagtail (10),
• Wren, Dunnock(5),
• Robin , Mistle Thrush (3), Song Thrush (2), Blackbird, Redwing (c40),
• BlueTit ,Great Tit, Long-tailed Tit (6),
• Magpie, Carrion Crow,Starling,
• House Sparrow (6), In / along the Brisbane Road hedges,
• Chaffinch(10), Greenfinch (3), Siskin (12) (Mike Condon)

Wanstead Flats:

• Ground nesting birds are back in force:
• 19 Meadow Pipits by the SSSI; 14 Skylarks, including 6 singing birds, east of Centre Road;
• 2 singing Reed Bunting in SSSI (Tim Harris)
• Mediterranean Gull (6th day),
• Little Owl (west end of Long Wood), sub-song Redwing, Fieldfare, Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush (NC/Steve Thorpe).

Wanstead Park:

• 6 Waxwing at the junction of Seagry Road / Overton Drive by The Basin 09:24 (NC/ST/Birdguides),
• Great Crested Grebe (basin), 2 Little Grebe,
• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker,
• Siskin, singing Mistle Thrush, singing Goldcrest, Coal Tit,
• 4m Teal (SoM). (NC)

Woodford Green, Broadmead Estate:

• singing Dunnock singing Robin and 2 Blue Tit early am (DEH)