March 18th 2010

weather: 13C max, cloud cover.

Eagle Pond:

• 6 Shoveler (all male), 2 Pochard (pr)
• 4 Mute Swan (all adult)
• 1 Greylag Goose
• 5 Wood Pigeon, 3 Magpie, Great Tit

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• 4 Teal, 2 Gadwall, 21 Shoveler, 15 Tufted Duck
• 12 Lapwing, 3 Snipe, 2 Green Sandpiper
• Redshank (this is the first sighting of the year...but Redshank appeared in the same location last year on March 20th, and remained into May)...
• 1 singing Skylark, 1 Meadow Pipit
• 21 Pied Wagtail
• 2 Linnet (pr) (Anon)

Gants Hill:

• Grey Heron took off from a residentail garden (TLachhar)

Goodmayes, Hospital:

• 6 Wood Pigeon, including 1 couting male
• 5 Magpie,
• 3 Blackbird, 1 Mistle Thrush, 2 Robin
• 2 Collared Dove,
• 2 Chaffinch
• Green Woodpecker (CGannaway)

Goodmayes, Station:

• 19 Feral Pigeon

Wanstead Flats:

• pr of Shoveler on Alexandra Lake
• trilling Little Grebe
• 15 Skylark, 10 Meadow Pipit
• 10 Redwing, 6 Fieldfare
• 2 Reed Bunting (Tim Harris)
• m Pheasant (JLethbridge)

Wanstead, High Street:

• 2 Pied Wagtail on the green near Tarzy Wood

Wanstead Park:

• The Basin: 11 Tufted Duck, 2 Pochard, 2 Mute Swan, Canada Goose, 23 Coot (J Lethbridge)
• Chiffchaff singing in Resevoir Wood
• Little Egret on Ornamental Water (first Wanstead Park record of 2010) (Kathy Hartnett)
• 20 Linnet in the Old Sewage Works
• Water Rail still in the Dell (Paul Ferris/KHartnett)