February 25, 2010

February 25th 2010

weather: 9C, cloudy, slight wind (8mph)


Bush Wood:

  • Sparrowhawk, being mobbed by a few Crows
  • 4 Wren, 7 Robin, 10 Blackbird, Song Thrush, Redwing
  • 13 Blue Tit, 21 Great Tit, 1 Long Tailed Tit
  • 5 Stock Dove, 14 Wood Pigeon, 2 Feral Pigeon (over)
  • 3 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker
  • 15 Carrion Crow, 11 Magpie, Jay, 2 Starling (TLachhar/DE-Hull)

Claybury Park:

  • Woodcock
  • Song Thrush singing (in the rain)
  • Canada Goose, Mallard, Moorhen, Coot
  • 2 Stock Dove, Woodpigeon
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker
  • Jay, Magpie, Carrion Crow
  • Great Tit, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tit
  • Wren, Blackbird, Robin
  • Chaffinch, Greenfinch (PHart)

Valentines Park:

  • Valentino the Mediterranean Gull still present!
  • 13 Pochard (PHopkins)
  • pair of Egyptian Geese
  • Great Crested Grebe
  • 6 Cormorant!
  • Grey Heron
  • 2 Stock Dove
  • Song thrush
  • Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker,
  • 3 Goldfinch, 3 Greenfinch, 2 Long Tailed Tit
  • 2 Jay, Jackdaw (Barbara J)

Wanstead Flats:

  • the area either side of Centre Road
  • c990 Common Gull (600 near Alexandra Lake, 200 nearer Bush Wood and others scattered. c650 Black Headed Gull, 5 Lesser Black Backed Gulls, 1 Herring Gull
  • 136 Carrion Crows mostly in 2 large groups, 3 Magpie, 7 Jackdaw, Jay, 43 Starling
  • 28 Wood Pigeon
  • Ring Necked Parakeet, calling very enthusiastically from a hole in a tree in the plantation east of Centre Road.
  • 15 Blue Tit, 10 Great Tit, 1 Long Tailed Tit
  • 2 Greenfinch (pair)
  • Blackbird, Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush, c20 Redwing, Robin, Wren, 2 Dunnock
  • male Kestrel
  • 5 Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker
  • 11 Skylark, including 5 singing males!
  • 2 Meadow Pipit (TLachhar/DE-Hull)

Woodford Green, Broadmead Estate:

  • 51 Black Headed Gulls
  • 35 Feral Pigeon
  • 2 Pied Wagtail
  • Blackbird
  • Jackdaw (heard)

Connaught Water: (just outside the borough)

  • 50+ Tufted duck
  • 1 male Red Crested Pochard
  • 2 Pochard (m)
  • Swan menacing Canada geese (PWarne)

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