February 27, 2010

February 27th 2010

weather: max 9C, showers, overcast

Fairlop Gravel Works:

  • 5 Canada Geese,
  • 8 Mallard, 21 Gadwall, 26 Shoveler, 35 Tufted Duck, 61 Teal, 8 Pochard,
  • Little Grebe
  • 28 Coot, 2 Moorhen
  • male Pheasant
  • c200 Lapwing, 48 Golden Plover
  • 4 Green Sandpiper
  • 7+ Snipe
  • Many Common Gulls and Black Headed Gulls with 15 Lesser Black Backed Gulls and a few Herring Gulls
  • 45 Wood Pigeon, 42 Stock Dove
  • Song Thrush, 3 Blackbird, 3 Robin, 2 Wren, Dunnock
  • Green Woodpecker
  • 6 Skylark including 1 singing
  • 4 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit, 4 Long Tailed Tit
  • 11 Carrion Crow, 4 Magpie, 2 Jay
  • 3 Goldfinch, Chaffinch, 4 Linnet
  • Brown Hare, Fox

Fairlop Waters CP:

  • 155 Canada Geese, 22 Greylag Geese
  • 85 Mallard, 10 Gadwall, 44 Tufted Duck, female Goldeneye, 26 Teal, 1 Pochard,
  • 6 Little Grebe, 3 Great Crested Grebe
  • 1 Woodcock flushed by the lagoon
  • 60 Coot, 21 Moorhen
  • 1 Grey Heron on the plain
  • c100 Black Headed Gulls, 160 Common Gulls, 2 Lesser Black Backed Gulls
  • 11 Skyark, (a few in song), 14 Meadow Pipit
  • 11 Pied Wagtail mostly on the golf course
  • male Kestrel by the main entrance
  • 51 Wood Pigeon, 2 Stock Dove, 1 Feral Pigeon (over)
  • 8 Blackbird, Song Thrush, 15 Robin, Wren,
  • c70 Fieldfare on the paddock by the stables feeding with 10 Redwing, c20 Starlings
  • 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker
  • 7 Long Tailed Tit, 10 Blue Tit, 4 Great Tit,
  • 4 Chaffinch, 2 Goldfinch, 1 Greenfinch, 16 Linnet on the plain behind the lagoon
  • 12 Magpie, 20 Carrion Crow, Jackdaw (heard) (DEH)
  • Reed Bunting (Alan Bell)

Hainault Recreational Ground:

  • c300 Black Headed Gulls

Valentines Park:

  • 16 Pochard (PHopkins)

Wanstead, Northumberland Avenue:

  • 6 Lesser Redpoll in a garden (JCharter)

Whitehall Plain:

  • 2 Little Egret (Andrew Perrin)

Woodford Green, Broadmead Estate:

  • 35 Wood Pigeon,
  • 3 Mistle Thrush
  • 4 Blue Tit
  • Pied Wagtail
  • 50 Black Headed Gull, 2 Common Gull, 2 Lesser Black Backed Gull

Barking, Sudbury Road: (just outside the borough)

  • male Blackcap in my garden (Paul Hawkins)

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