March 29th 2011

Fairlop Waters:

• 2 Little Owl in the usual place


• 60 Sand Martin, 1 House Martin (first of the year) and 1 Swallow


• 2 Lesser Black Backed Gull eating an egg that looked big enough to be a goose egg


• 2 Snipe


• Meadow Pipit, Reed Bunting, Kestrel, Linnet (Neil Twyford)

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• 2 Mute Swan (northside), no sign of nest building yet


• c30 Canada Goose and 1 Greylag Goose


• 1 Black Headed Gull


• 2 Shelduck, 40 Tufted Duck, 37 Shoveler, 2 Teal, 1 female Pochard, c10 Mallard, 8 Gadwall


• 1 Great Crested Grebe, 5 Little Grebe (including 3 trilling males)


• pr Moorhen, c15 Coot


• 3 Lapwing, 5 Green Sandpiper (south side), 5 Snipe (north side)


• Woodpigeon everywhere


• 2 Pheasant calling


• Green Woodpecker


• c40 Carrion Crow, Magpie


• 38 Fieldfare, Song Thrush singing, Blackbird, singing Dunnock, 2 Wren singing


• Greenfinch, Reed Bunting calling, Chiffchaff singing (DEH)

Roding Valley Park:

• Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff


• Great Spotted Woodpeckr


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  Redwing, 3 Song Thrush, Jay


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  2 Greenfinch (Alan Hobson)

Valentines Park:

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  1 Little Grebe and 1 Great Crested Grebe on the boating lake


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  4 Grey Heron, (2 pairs, both 'bonding' on the fish pond island... maybe breeding will occur again?)


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  4 Mute Swans, (both females now sitting on eggs!) - males chasing away Canada Geese


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  c40 Canada Geese, 5 Egyptian Geese (yes, the pr still have all 3 ducklings, now 26 days old, and the parents are both actively guarding the young


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  2 Pochard, c50 Tufted Duck, Mallard, c20 Moorhen, c150 Coot,


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  c150 Black Headed Gull,


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  Feral Pigeon, Woodpigeon, 3 Collared Dove, 1 Stock Dove in the big Cedar Tree


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  Pied Wagtail


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  5 Wren, 2 Dunnock, 3 Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, 7 Redwing, 3 Blackbird, 3 Robin,


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  Goldcrest nr Jacobs Well, 2 Chiffchaff


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  5 Long Tailed Tit, 5 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit


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  Jay, 3 Magpie, c40 Carrion Crow, c60 Starling, 12 House Sparrow on Brisbane Road


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  5 Chaffinch, 3 Goldfinch, 3 Greenfinch (Mike Condon/U3A)


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  4 Stock Dove, 2 Pied Wagtail (Brandon Anderson)

Wanstead Flats:

• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker


• Buzzard (over, west)


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  Gadwall, Shoveler, Pochard on Alexandra Lake (Nick Croft)


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  probable Tree Sparrow at SSSI (SThorpe)

Wanstead Park:

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  Water Rail still on Perch Pond (Steve Thorpe)