September 10, 2009

September 10th 2009

Gants Hill:

  • Great Spotted Woodpecker, (male still present)
  • House Sparrows c15 in the garden feeding
  • 9 Greenfinches (juveniles and adults)
  • 11 Chaffinches
  • Blue & Great Tits
  • 4 Startlings, 3 Magpies, pair of Blackbird, 2 Robins (1 juv), 1 Collared Dove, 1 Wood Pigeon, 6 Feral Pigeons (Alan Thomas)
Fairlop Waters:

  • Female Tufted Duck with 6 Chicks, Great Crested Grebes with juveniles, Coot, Moorhens, Mallard, Mute Swans with cygnets, Canada Geese
  • 27 Lapwings on the main Island
  • Black Headed Gulls, Cormorant, Grey Heron
  • Green Woodpecker
  • Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff
  • Great Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Blue Tits
  • Dunnock, Wren, Blackbird, Robin
  • Wood Pigeons with young, Collared Dove
  • Pair of Kestrel
  • Greenfinch, Chaffinch
  • Carrion Crow, Magpie, Starling, Pied Wagtail
  • 2 Pheasant on the main Island
  • Swallows, House Martins, Sand Martins
  • (Alan Thomas)
Roding Valley NR: (just outside the borough)

  • 2 Kingfisher, Spotted Flycatcher, 3 House Martin, 3 Chiffcaff.
Connaught Water: (just outside the borough)

  • Treecreeper, Kingfisher, 2 Grey Heron, Gadwall, Tufted Duck (Peter Warne).

Epping Forest, New Road, Woodford:

  • Grey Heron over (D Messer)

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