April 01, 2009

April 1st 2009

Bush Wood:
  • Blackcap singing (first one heard in Bush Wood this year) (Tim Harris)

Eagle Pond:

  • pair of Grey Wagtail (BJ)

Fairlop Gravel Works:

  • 2 Cormorant (over)
  • 1 Grey Heron on the site
  • 2 Lapwing mobbing a Carrion Crow, (4 Lapwing in total), 1 Snipe, 1 Green Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover.
  • Mute Swan, 3 Shelduck, Canada Geese, Mallards, pair of Gadwall, 20+ Teal, Coot, Moorhen.
  • 4 Lesser Black Backed Gulls on the mud.
  • 2 Skylark singing, 5 Meadow Pipit, 4 Linnet and 40+ Pied Wagtail
  • also: Carrion Crow, Magpie, Wood Pigeon, Robin. (DEH/JMak)
  • 1 Sand Martin (over) (Alan Bell)
  • 3 Green Sandpiper, 6 Snipe and 5 Little Ringed Plover (Steve Bacon/Alan Bell)
  • 5 Gadwall and 4 Shoveler (SB)

Wanstead Flats:

  • at least 4 Skylark (singing) and 4 Meadow Pipit (TH)
  • 1 Little Owl (TH)

Gants Hill:

  • female Brambling feeding for 20-25 minutes on the peanut feeder in a private garden near Gants Hill roundabout at 6.25pm. (Alan Thomas)

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