March 1st 2011

Aldborough Hatch:

• 98 Waxwings in Spearpoint Gardens at 1pm (Chris Gannaway)
  

Aldersbrook:

• 24 Waxwing (17 on Westmorland Close and 7 on Arran Drive at 7.30am (Natalie Benajeh)
• 37 Waxwing present by 10.30am - then flew west (Jonathan Lethbridge)

Fairlop Waters:

• 2 Grey Heron
• Great Crested Grebe on the fishina lake
• Little Grebe trilling on the lagoon
• 3 Mute Swan, c100 Canada Goose, 20 Greylag Goose, c20 Mallard, c40 Tufted Duck, 10 Gadwall, 6 Pochard, Coot, c10 Moorhen
• Kestrel
• 200+ Black Headed Gull, 50+ Common Gull, 2 Lesser Black Backed Gull
• 17 Lapwing on the island
• Skylark singing behind the lagoon, 10 Pied Wagtail together on the golf course
• 100+ Wood Pigeon, 4 Stock Dove, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Feral Pigeon
• Green Woodpecker
• c40 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing, 2 singing Song Thrush, 5 Blackbird, several Robin, 3 singing Dunnock, 3 singing Wren
• 3 pairs of Great Tit, many Blue Tits, 1 small party of Long Tailed Tit
• 5 Greenfinch, few Chaffinch, 1 Goldfinch
• Starling, Carrion Crow, Magpie
• 3 Reed Bunting (2 singing males, 1 female)
• c25 Waxwing flew over the golf course... 1 heard trilling by the railway line but could not re-locate. (42 Species - Daniel Erickson-Hull/Tony Leaderman)

Ilford, Northbrook Road:

• Blackcap (Barbara Miller)

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• c6 Redwings, 3 Song Thrush,
  
• 2 Goldfinches, pair of Long-tailed Tits,
  
• Common Gull (Alan Hobson)
  

South Woodford:

• garden sightings:
• 3 Blue Tit
• 19 Herring Gull with 1 Yellow Legged Gull overhead (yellow legs very obvious)
• 1 Robin
• 2 House Sparrow (Samuel Bird)
  

Valentines Park:

• c80 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush, 1 singing Mistle Thrush
• 10 Siskin
• Green Woodpecker
• Grey Heron (Barbara Miller)
• 5 Mistle thrushes,10 Redwing,
• Long Tailed Tits nestbuilding,
• 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Coal Tit,
• 100 plus flock of Starlings feeding on the grass, (Russ Sherriff)

Wanstead Flats:

• no sign of yesterdays Med Gull
• 16 Mute Swan and 8 Greylag Goose on Alexandra Lake
• Pied Wagtail (Jonathan Lethbridge)

Wanstead Park:

• Water Rail at the west end of Perch Pond (Steve Thorpe/Kathy Hartnett)
• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker drumming in large Oak near the Temple, both birds very showy (Steve Thorpe)
• 2 Cormorants up a tree, 3 Ring Necked Parakeet, Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Grey Heron, 5 Shoveler (Peter Gordon)

Woodford Bridge, Vicarage Road:

• Mistle Thrush (Alan Hobson)

Woodford Green, Snakes Lane East:

• Lesser Black Backed Gull
• c45 Jackdaw overhead (Alan Hobson)