January 31st 2010

weather: cold, dry, cloudy

Wanstead Park:

• Water Rail, in the Dell
• 8+ Siskin (The Dell),
• 8 Stock Dove,
• 4 Song Thrush, 4 Mistle Thrush,
• Goldcrest,
• 12 Redwing,
• 2 Grey Heron,
• 19 Pochard,
• 3 Green Woodpecker, 5 Great-spotted Woodpeckers,
• 4 Little Grebe (S Fisher).
• 10 Shoveler (5 pairs)
• Grey Wagtail (dell)
• 2 Ring Necked Parakeet over the plain, (PFerris)

Wanstead Flats:

• 9 Skylark,
• 5 Greylag Geese,
• c300 Common Gulls,
• 2 Pied Wagtails,
• 6 Dunnocks (4 males singing),
• 2 Fieldfare,
• 1 Reed Bunting,
• Meadow Pipit,
• 13 Shoveler in Alexandra Pond (S Fisher)

Woodford Green, Broadmead Road:

• Mistle Thrush
• 2 Pied Wagtails

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

• 1 Firecrest still (Ian Woodward, Alan Thomas, Tajindar Lachhar, Neil Twyford)

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

• m Red-crested Pochard (Frankie Macrow)
• 50 Coot, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 8pr Mandarin Ducks, 10m 6f Tufted Duck, 5 Moorhen, 12 Canada Goose (Paul & Hazel Smith)

Mayesbrook Park: (just outside the borough)

• Little Egret, partially albino Black-headed Gull, 70 Gadwall, 12 Pochard, 18 Shoveler, 2 Little Grebe, 2 Mistle thrush. (PHa)