November 12th 2009

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South Park:

• 2 Adult Mute Swan with 1 juvenile
• 101 Canada Geese
• Mallard, Tufted Duck, 1 male Pochard, 1 male Shoveler
• 1 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Little Grebe
• 170 Black Headed Gull, 3 Common Gull
• 1 Grey Heron
• 3 Kingfisher!
• Rats everywhere.

Fairlop Waters CP:

• 6 adult & 6 juvenile Mute Swans
• Canada Geese, Mallards, Tufted Duck, c10 Gadwall (scrape), c30 Teal (lagoon), Moorhen, Coot
• 1 male Red Crested Pochard on the boating lake
• 4 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe
• c10 Cormorant, 3 Grey Heron
• 1 Male Kestrel on a golf flag
• 4 male Pheasant (2 on the plain, 2 by the stables)
• c30 Chaffinch, c15 Goldfinch, c15 Greenfinch, 4 Linnet
• Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit a plenty
• 10+ Song Thrush, Blackbirds, Robin, Wren, Dunnock, 2 Redwing 40+ Fieldfare
• Skylark, 2 Meadow Pipit, 3 Pied Wagtail
• Carrion Crow, Magpie, 4 Jay,
• Wood Pigeon, Feral Pigeon, Collared Dove,
• 5 Goldcrest, 2 Chiffchaff, at the east end of the fishing lake
• Green Sandpiper on the spit
• 70+ Lapwing on the Island
• Starling, usual Gulls,
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker

Hainault Lodge Nature Reserve:

• c10 Jackdaw, 6 Jay
• 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• 4 Goldcrest
• Goldfinch

Hainault Forest CP:

• 94 Canada Geese, 4 Mute Swan
• 27 Shoveler, Great Crested Grebe 1 female Pochard
• 10 Cormorant
• Mallard, Coot, Moorhen
• including 1 female Mallard on a pond on the golf course, with 14 x 1 day old ducklings!
• Green Woodpecker
• 6 Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• 6 Nuthatch, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit
• 3 Skylark and Meadow Pipit in adjacant fields
• Song Thrush
• 2 Stock Dove
• 10+Jay, c100 Jackdaw with c50 Rook

Claybury Park:

• 2 adult with 4 grown young Moorhen and 2 Mallard on the pond with 10 Black Headed Gulls and a Grey Heron
• 2 Sparrowhawk
• Nuthatch (heard)
• 5 Treecreeper!
• 5 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker
• Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit,
• 1 Meadow Pipit
• House Sparrows calling from Ravensbourne Road

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Kestrel, Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• Pied Wagtail, 2 flocks of Long-tailed Tits, Jay
• Redbridge Lakes: 4 adolescent Mute Swans, juveniles from the spring and now in semi-adult plumage, and sticking together after their parents presumably drove them off from their territory on the river (where I saw them all together in the summer). (Alan Hobson)

November 11th 2009

Hainault:

• Sparrowhalk over our garden, towards Claybury Park
• Chaffinches on the feeders (Eddie Barnes)

Wanstead Flats:

• 3 Meadow Pipits, 17 Skylark,
• 112 Carrion Crow, Pair of Stonechats,
• 3 Green Woodpecker, Great-spotted Woodpecker (S Fisher)

November 10th 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• 220 Canada Goose, 2 Mute Swan, 50 Mallard, Moorhen, 25 Coot, 80+ Common Gull,
• 45 BH Gull, 3 Cormorant over,
• 100+ Woodpigeon S in two large groups,
• Green Woodpecker, 2 GS Woodpecker,
• lots of Wren, 2 Pied Wagtail, 5 Meadow Pipit,
• 4 Blackbird, 2 Fieldfare, 2 Mistle Thrush,
• Chiffchaff,
• 25 Long-tailed Tits, 8 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit,
• 150 Starling, 4 Jackdaw, 35 Crow, Jay, 7 Magpie (J Lethbridge).

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Grey Heron,
• 2 parties of Long-tailed Tits,
• 3 Pied Wagtails,
• 2 Jays,
• Green Woodpecker (Alan Hobson)

Woodford Green:

• pair of Pied Wagtails flitting around Broadmead Estate

Valentines Mansion:

• Chaffinch, Blackbird, Blue Tit, & Great Tit

Gants Hill:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker, House Sparrow (in our garden)
• 6 Blue Tit, 3 Blackbird (Alan Thomas)

Valentines Park:

• 7+ Cormorant, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Moorhen, Coot,
• Family of Mute Swans
• Released pinioned birds: Mandarin, Wood Duck, Pintail
• Grey Heron,
• Black Headed Gull, Lesser Black Backed Gulls, Herring Gulls
• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Greenfinch
• Mistle Thrush
• Starling, Blackbird
• Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit
• Magpie, Carrion Crow,
• Collared Dove, Wood Pigeon (Eddie Barnes)

November 9th 2009

Wanstead:

• Coal Tit nr Bush Wood (J Lethbridge).

Wanstead Park:

• 15.45 - 17.15:
• 1 Woodcock,
• female Tawny Owl,
• 36 Gadwall, Teal,
• 15 Ring-necked Parakeet over,
• 25 Tufted Duck (S Fisher)

November 8th 2009

Fairlop Gravel Works, South Side:

• c250 Lapwing
• 2 Green Sandpipers
• 10 Teal, female Shoveler

Fairlop Gravel Works, North Side:

• c50 Lapwing, with 4 Golden Plover
• c20 Pochard, c20 Gadwall, c25 Tufted Duck
• Cormorant (over)

Valentines Park:

• 2 Ring Necked Parakeets over Long Waters (Tajinder Lacchar)
• 2 Egyptian Geese (Simon Litt)

Epping Forest, Strawberry Hill Ponds: (just outside the borough)

• 23 Mandarin, 6 Moorhen, Mallard
• Kingfisher, Grey Heron
• female Tawny Owl (MAW)

Wanstead Park:

• In the Sewage Works area:
• 20 Redwing, 7 Fieldfare,
• male Bullfinch, 5 Goldfinch, 40 Chaffinch, 40 Greenfinch
• 2 Blackcap
• also, Treecreeper in Resevoir Wood (Tim Harris)
  

November 7th 2009

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Little Egret, 4pm
  

Eagle Pond:

• 4 Mute Swans
• 2 Canada Geese
• 27 Mallard
• 17 Tufted Duck
• 2 male Shoveler
• c40 Coot
• 13 Moorhen (most i've seen here)
• c50 Black Headed Gull
• Grey Heron (DEH)
• Goldcrest feeding in the trees to the west of the lake
  

November 6th 2009

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Little Egret

Wanstead Flats:

• 2 male Stonechats
• 6 Redwings west
• 1 Fieldfare north-west
• 5 Meadow Pipits
• 1 Skylark
• 65 Common Gulls, 35 Herring Gulls, 20 Lesser Black-backed Gulls
• Male Sparrowhawk (Tim Harris)
• male Dartford Warbler (DBA)

Fairlop Waters CP:

• 2 adult Mute Swans with 5 juveniles
• c30 Canada Geese, 2 Greylag Geese
• 20 Cormorant, 1 Grey Heron
• 1 Kestrel over the golf course
• Mallard, Tufted Duck, Coot, Moorhen
• 30+ Teal on the lagoon
• Little Grebe, Great Crested Grebe
• Black Headed Gulls, Common Gulls, Lesser Black Backed Gulls, Herring Gulls,
• c80 Lapwings on the Island
• 2 Snipe on the plain
• 3 Woodcock flushed from the plain
• 2 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• Ring Necked Parakeet (east)
• Carrion Crow, Magpie, Jay, Feral Pigeon, Stock Dove, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove
• Starling, Blackbird, 4 Song Thrush, 10 Redwing
• 80 Fieldfare (north)
• Robins, Wren, Dunnock, Pied Wagtail, 3 Meadow Pipit, 8 Skylark
• Blue Tit, Great Tit, Long Tailed Tits
• Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, 2 Linnit, 17 Siskin, feeding by the fishing lake
• 3 Reed Bunting
• 1 Chiffchaff still singing, associating with 2 Bliue Tits by the fishing lake

Fairlop Quarry:

• quick walk up footpath 86
• 2 Kestrels,
• 1 Fieldfare
• Long Tailed Tits, Blue Tits, Robin, Blackbird
• 2 Hawfinch in hedge near entrance feeding on berries, and flew off east (towards Hainault Forest)

Chigwell Row: (just outside the borough)

• 3 Jackdaw over Al Saints Church

Chigwell Row Water Treatment Works: (just ouside the borough)

• c40 Tufted Duck, 12 Cormorant, 6 Little Grebe
• Grey Heron, Mallard, 6 Mute Swan, Coot, Moorhen
• Green Woodpecker
• 2 Redwing,
• 5 Jay

Woodford Green:

• 2 Mistle Thrush, 2 Pied Wagtail on Broadmead Estate
• 30-40 Gulls on the playing field, including Black Headed Gull, Common Gull and Lesser Black Backd Gull

Aldborough Hatch:

• over 30 Collared Doves perched on Aldborough Road North.

November 5th 2009

Epping Forest, Knighton Woods:

• 15 Mallard, 5 Moorhen
• 20+ Mandarin, (at least 10m & 10f)
• pair of Wood Duck
• Party of Long Tailed Tits feeding round the pond, 'with' 1 Redwing
• 2 Jay
• 2nd party of Long Tailed Tits, nearer Monkhams Lane, with Blue Tits, Great Tits, and one Firecrest
• 3 Goldcrests,
• Nuthatch (heard)
• Coal Tit

Epping Forest, Reeds Forest:

• 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Blue Tits, Great Tits

Epping Forest, Whitehall Plain:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• 2 Jays

Wanstead Park:

• 30 Gadwall (the basin)
• 9 Little Grebe, 6 Great Crested Grebe (SFisher)

Wanstead Flats:

• pair of Stonechat
• 6 Meadow Pipit (SFisher)

Seven Kings Water, Loxford:

• Grey Wagtail
• female Sparrowhawk over (JMakengo)

Ray Park:

• 200 Starlings
• 4 Blue Tits in the walled garden
• 2 Jays
• Collared Dove, Pied Wagtail, Blackbird (TLacchar)

Epping Forest, Connaught Water: (just outside the borough)

• Tawny Owl calling at 10.30pm

November 4th 2009

Fairlop Waters CP:

• 9 Cormorant (4 on the jetty, and 5 over)
• 61 Lapwing (mostly taking advantage of the newly gravelled-over island!
• 4 adult and 5 juvenile Mute Swan
• 28 Canada Geese (vastly depleted flock!!! ???), 2 Greylag Geese
• 49 Tufted Duck, 36 Mallard
• 30 Teal (on the lagoon)
• 8 Great Crested Grebe, 3 Little Grebe
• 122 Coot, 31 Moorhen
• 68 Black Headed Gulls, 21 Common Gulls on the lake
• Lesser Black Backed Gull and Herring Gulls (over)
• Male Sparrowhawk moving through the trees in the fenced off wildlife area by Forest Road
• Kestrel hunting over the golf course
• 4 Goldfinch,2 Chaffinch, 4 Greenfinch,
• 4 Green Woodpecker
• c20 Wood Pigeon, 1 Stock Dove (over), Collared Dove & Feral Pigeon near the stables
• c6 Carrion Crow, c5 Magpie, 2 Jay, 4 Starlings
• c20 Blue Tit, c4 Great Tit, c40 Long Tailed Tit (4 parties of 10)
• c9 Robin, 5 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing, c12 Blackbird, 2 Dunnock,
• female Stonechat behind the lagoon on the plain towards St. Peters Aldborough Hatch, and the male was calling from near the east end of the Lagoon, where at least 1 Reed Bunting was also calling,
• 2 Pied Wagtail, 2 Meadow Pipit over the plain

Fairlop, Hainault Farm Lake (the spit):

• 7 Grey Heron
• 2 Teal
• 2 Little Grebe
• Chiffchaff calling

Fairlop, Hainault Farm:

• flock of about 40 Starlings by the entrance on Hainault Road

Fairlop Quarry:

• a short walk up Footpath 86 before it stated raining produced a marvellous low flying Buzzard
• Skylark (heard)
• 9 Long Tailed Tits with a couple of Blue Tits
• Carrion Crows and Magpies

Fairlop Gravel Works, North side:

• 2 Mute Swans, 2 Shoveler, c30 Gadwall, c20 Tufted Duck, c10 Mallard, c15 Pochard, c10 Teal, 10 Coot, 5 Moorhen
• 2 Snipe
• another party of Long Tailed Tits
• Merlin flashed low through the site
• 2 Kestrels both seen hovering, and perching on lamp columns (one on Painters Road, and one on Hainault Road)

Fairlop Gravel Works, South Side:

• too dark to see much, but I wanted to see if any Golden Plover had arrived, which they had not!
• 100+ Lapwing, 2 Snipe
• 2 Mute Swans, 30 Canada Geese, 2 Teal, 5 Moorhen

Valentines Park, Ilford:

• adult Medeterranean Gull, Common Gull, Black Headed Gull,
• 2 Egyptian Geese, 2 Greylag Geese,
• 5 Cormorant,
• Mute Swan family of 7,
• Shoveler, Pochard, Gadwall, Little Grebe
• 2 Grey Wagtails, Pied Wagtail, Kingfisher,
• 2 Mistle Thrush,
• Grey Heron (MAW)

Valentines Mansion:

• Wren
• 20 Jackdaws over the walled garden (TLacchar)

November 3rd 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• (9.30-10.30): no sign of Dartford Warbler;
• m Stonechat, 11 Skylark, 6 Meadow Pipits, Mistle Thrush, Jay,
• Snipe (flushed)
• 2 Fieldfares in Hawthorn,
• 10 Shoveler in Alexandra Pond (S Fisher)
• (P Fallan/SFisher).

Ilford:

• 2 Egyptian Geese (over) (JLethbridge)

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Kingfisher, Great Spotted Woodpecker (Alan Hobson)
  

November 2nd 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• Dartford Warbler, still in same area seemed to be associating with Stonechats this am 8.15 am (JP Elmes).

Wanstead Park:

• In Reservoir Wood - 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• Treecreeper,
• 40+ Long Tailed Tits, 20 Blue Tit, 30+ Great Tit, 1 Coal Tit,
• 8 Jays (J Lethbridge).
• 20 Little Grebe (16 on The Basin),
• 4 Great-crested Grebe (The Basin),
• 24 Gadwall, 12 Pochard, 24 Tufted Duck,
• 1 Kingfisher over Shoulder of Mutton pond,
• 96 Coot (S . Fisher)

Woodford Green:

• Mistle Thrush on Broadmead Estate

Fairlop:

• Kestrel on a lamp column on Forest Road near Fairlop Waters CP entrance

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• 2 Mute Swan, 33 Canada Geese
• Mallard, Tufted Duck, Gadwall, Shoveler, 10 Teal, Coot, Moorhen
• Water Rail
• 1 Woodcock, 100+ Lapwing, 15 Snipe
• Party of Long Tailed Tits,
• Song Thrush
• 2 Kestrels, 1 over Hargreaves field, and one on Painters Road
• Little Owl calling
• Jays fighting in the trees that line Hargreaves
• Several Hares in the field between the Gravel Works, and Hargreaves
• Fox in the same field as the hares
• Pipistrelle Bat
  

November 1st 2009

Wanstead Flats:

• Dartford Warbler still east of Centre road c15:20,
• 2 Stonechat in same area.
• Also 2 Teal, 6 Shoveler, 50+ Common Gull, 5 Herring Gull, 10+ Lesser Black Backed Gull, 1 adult Great Black Backed Gull (rare here),
• 2 Kestrel,
• 2 Pied Wagtail, 8 Meadow Pipit, Song Thrush,
• 2 Green Woodpecker,
• 27 Ring Necked Parakeet over heading north,
• 2 Goldfinch, 10+ Greenfinch,
• 500+ Starling,
• 3 Jay, 2 Jackdaw (J Lethbridge).

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• pair of Mute Swans
• Mallards, 7 Shoveler, 10+ Teal, Coot, Moorhens, Tufted Ducks
• 70+ Lapwings (plus more in adjacent fields)
• 12 Snipe, Green Sandpiper
• 17 Linnet, 5 Meadow Pipit, 2 Skylark, 10+ Pied Wagtail
• 1 Rook surprisingly present 'with' but not socially, the murder of Carrion Crows
• 3 adult Great Black Backed Gulls with the mixed flock of Lesser Black Backed, Herring, Common and Black Headed Gulls. (DEH)

Wanstead Park

• pm: 2 Firecrest calling with large flock of (mainly) Long-tailed tits from Reservoir Wood towards dusk,
• Also Goldcrest and Coal Tit amongst them.
• 11 Pochard, 14 Tufted Ducks, 8 Gadwall (S Fisher)

Gants Hill:

• Sparrowhawk - Seen at 10.10am flying over back gardens.
• Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 male
• Goldfinches - c3
• House Sparrows - c8
• Greenfinches - c4
• Chaffinches - c3
• Blue tits - c3
• Robin - 1
• Magpies - c3
• Collaed Dove - 1
• Wren - 1
• Feral Pigeons - c6
• (garden sightings by Alan Thomas)

October 31st 2009

Valentine's Park:

• adult Mediterranean Gull,
• 2 Egyptian Geese, 5 Shoveler,
• 1 Coal Tit
• 11.30-12.30 (Ian Woodward)

Wanstead Flats:

• male Dartford Warbler in Broom and Hawthorn north-east of model aircraft green (showing well 11.50 am),
• 2 Stonechat,
• c10 Meadow Pipits, 13 Skylark,
• 3 Reed Bunting, 1 Siskin NW,
• 60+ Redwing west, 6 Fieldfare west,
• 10 Shoveler, 4 Teal,
• 2 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk,
• 5 Mistle Thrush (S Fisher).

Fairlop Waters:

• 2 Chiffchaff
• 2 Goldcrest
• Stonechat
• (Alan Brown)

October 30th 2009

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• (1pm): 14 Gadwall, 5 Shoveler, 12 Tufted Duck, 15 Cormorant, 1 Little Grebe, 4 Teal,
  
• 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker (Steve Bacon).

Fairlop Waters:

• 4 juvenile Little Grebe east end of main lake,
  
• 96 Cormorant,
  
• 2 Little Egret flew SE 8.10am (Steve Bacon).

Wanstead Park:

• 5 Ring-necked Parakeet near Temple, most I have ever seen here. Is this the start?
• Also 5 Little Grebe, Pochard, 5 Gadwall, 8 Tufted Duck on Heronry (J Lethbridge).
  

Roding Valley Park, Woodford Bridge:

• Kingfisher, 2 Ring-necked Parakeets, Jay, 2 Goldfinches, 4 Mistle Thrushes, flock of Long-tailed Tits (Alan Hobson)

Wanstead:

• Two Coal Tits on peanut and sunflower feeder. (garden by Wanstead Park) (Jennifer Charter)