February 21st 2011

Barkingside, Sunnymead Drive:

• c2o Waxwing near the primary School at 3pm (Eddie Barnes)

Gants Hill:

• Redbridge Institute Car Park - 5 Waxwing feeding on berries (Neil Twyford)

Goodmayes:

• 30 Waxwing at Goodmayes Station (S.Allen)

Roding Valley Park:

• Flock of two dozen Redwings, 3 Goldfinches, 2 Long-tailed Tits, up to half a dozen Greenfinches (Alan Hobson)

Wanstead Flats:

• (07:00-09:00): 2 Siskin, 20+ Greenfinch, 2 singing Chaffinch, 3 Goldfinch, singing Reed Bunting,
• sub song Redwing (Long Wood + 5 others), singing Mistle Thrush,
• 2 Meadow Pipit, 3 singing Skylark,
• 2 Stock Dove, Collared Dove,
• 12 Shoveler, 26 Tufted Duck, 7 Gadwall, 5 Pochard, 5 Greylag Goose, Grey Heron, Snipe (NC).

Wanstead Park:

• (09:00-11:00): 2 singing Mistle Thrush, 3 Cormorant, 57 Tufted Duck, 24 Gadwall, 7 Teal (SoM), 2 Egyptian Goose, 3 Pochard, 2 Coal Tit, Goldcrest, Grey Heron, 2 Stock Dove, Grey Wagtail, Kestrel, Siskin, 2 Little Grebe (NC).
• 14 gadwall, 3 ring necked parakeets, 34 coots, 6 moorhens, 13 mallards, 3 pochards, 2 tufted ducks, 2mute swans *1 Scaup?, 5 canada goose, 2 cormorants fishing (Samuel Bird, aged 8)
• * possibly the pochard x tufted cross that was at Valentines Park last week? A Valentines birder believes this bird to be a pochard x ferruginous duck? Any more ideas?