February 18th 2011

Claybury Park:

• Green Woodpecker (Alan Hobson)

Gants Hill:

• Redbridge Institute Car Park - 3 Waxwing feeding on berries before flying off towards Cranbrook Road (Neil Twyford)
  

Ray Park:

• 6 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush (AHobson)
  

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• 2 Little Egrets,
• Kestrel [first one I've seen here for months],
• mini-flock of 5 Fieldfares and 4 Redwings, another flock of around 30 Redwings elsewhere,
• Jay, 2 Long-tailed Tits, Mistle Thrush, 2 Mute Swans, 2 Greenfinches (Alan Hobson)

Roding Valley Park, Woodford:

• section north of Chigwell Road, Woodford Bridge
• Little Egret, Kingfisher, 24 Goldfinch (Alan Hobson)

South Woodford:

• 6 Waxwing over the Tube Station at 7.15am (Tony Brown)

Wanstead Flats:

• 10 Skylark (6 singers), 24+ Meadow Pipit, 2 Pied Wagtail,
• 5 Lesser Redpoll, 11 Siskin (s), 20+ Greenfinch, 8 + Reed Bunting (1 singer),
• 4 Redwing,
• 7 Gadwall, 2 Pochard, 14 Shoveler, c. 20 Tufted Duck, 2 Egyptian Goose (ad/juv), 5 Greylag Goose,
• Snipe,
• Sparrowhawk,
• no sign of Med Gull because of of aforementioned hawk who kept putting all the gulls up,
• Goldcrest,
• Little Grebe (trilling) (NCroft)

Wanstead Park:

• 11 Linnet, 20+ Siskin, 42 Tufted Duck, 2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Gadwall, 5 Pochard, 3 Little Grebe (2 trilling), singing Goldcrest, Coal Tit, Stock Dove, Sparrowhawk (52 sp in total) NC

Woodford Bridge, Vicarage Road:

• Mini-flock of 5 Fieldfares and 3 Redwings [probably the same mini-flock as in nearby RVP, above] (Alan Hobson)