May 4th 2009

Wanstead Park:

• Ring Necked Parakeet near Ornamental Waters (Sally Hammond)

Roding Valley Park:

• 3 Grey Herons, 2 being mobbed by Carrion Crows
• Song Thrush, Long Tailed Tit,

Fairlop:

• brief visit to the Gravel Pits
• Kestrel over Painters road (hunting)
• pair of Lapwing and 2 pairs of Little Ringed Plover
• also: Mute Swan, Canada Geese, Tufted Duck, Mallard, pair of Shoveler, Coot, Moorhen
• 2 Whitethroat
• 1 Swift (over)
• 4 Lesser Black Backed Gulls and 3 Herring Gulls
• Several Pheasant calling

Roding Valley Nature Reserve: (just outside the borough)

• Cuckoo (Peter Warne)