February 15th 2011

Claybury Park:

• Stock Dove, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Alan Hobson)

Hainault, Hannover Gardens:

• Garden Sightings: Today there were a pair of greater-spotted woodpeckers on the feeders and appeared to be drumming and displaying in the trees (let's hope for the patter of little beaks later in the year),
• individual sightings and those of green woodpeckers are quite frequent.
• A Grey heron is a regular fly over, seen most days.
• We still get up to seven goldfinches regularly and two pairs of chaffinches.
• Sightings of wrens are also becoming more frequent. (Eddie Barnes)

Roding Valley Park, South Woodford:

• Jay, 2 Long-tailed Tits (Alan Hobson)
  

South Woodford, garden:

• 1 grey heron flying low over the house at 9am with lots of wing feathers missing
• 2 goldfinch (second sighting in a week)
• 2 Long tailed tits (also saw them over the weekend) first time in the garden for 2 years
• Flock of c20 waxwing - about 20 at a very rough guess.
• Sparrows and Starlings squabbling on a neighbour's roof - presumably over a nesting site.
• And a blue tit is hanging around the nest box again...(Peter Gordon)
  

Valentines Park:

• In Association with Redbridge U3A Birdwatching Group,
• Great Crested Grebe,
• Mute Swan (4 ad), Canada Goose, Mallard ,Tufted Duck, Greylag Goose (2), Egyptian Goose (1) -ringed, Pochard (3m,2f),
• Coot , Moorhen,
• Common Gull, Black-headed Gull,
• Feral Pigeon , Wood Pigeon , Collared Dove
• Green Woodpecker (1), Great Spotted Woodpecker(1),
• Pied Wagtail (7), Grey Wagtail (1)
• Wren, Dunnock(2), Robin , Mistle Thrush (3), Song Thrush, Blackbird, Redwing (c40),
• BlueTit ,Great Tit, Coal Tit (1), Long-tailed Tit (7)
• Magpie, Carrion Crow, Jay,
• Starling
• House Sparrow (5), In / along the Brisbane Road hedges,
• Chaffinch(9), Greenfinch (3), Goldfinch (c15), Siskin (9)
• Cheers – Mike C

Wanstead Park:

• Wanstead Park: 11 Pied Wagtail together (momentous),
• 1 or possibly 2 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (first drumming, then seen in flght, 'second' 400yds from first an hour later drumming but not seen),
• 25 Siskin (Jonathan Lethbridge)

Woodford Bridge Pond:

• 12 Canada Goose, 60 Mallard, 3 Moorhen
• 30 Black Headed Gull
• 1 singing Blue Tit (DEH)

Woodford Bridge, Roding Lane North Playing Fields:

• Large mixed flock of over 50 birds, including Fieldfares, Redwings, Song Thrushes, Green Woodpecker, Blackbirds, Robins [so 5 species of thrush],
  
• Common Gull, Starlings and Woodpigeons. (Alan Hobson)
  

Woodford Bridge, Vicarage Road:

• Mistle Thrush
• Lesser Black Backed Gull (Alan Hobson)