April 17th 2010

weather: lovely n warm uzimmi!:

Barkingside, Dukes Road:

• 2 Blackbird, Robin
• Starlings, House Sparrows
• Carrion Crow
• 3 Great Tit
• Grey Heron (over) (Tony Leaderman)

Cocked Hat Plantation, Clayhall

• 51 Carrion Crows (together)
• Great Spotted Woodpecker

Fairlop, Aldborough Riding School:

• Little Owl on his usual branch at 6.10pm

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• 4 Mute Swans (1 pair each side of Painter Road, nest seems to be abandoned on the south side, north side, nest not located if they are building one)
• 33 Canada Goose, mostly in pairs, 1 paired up with a Greylag Goose. (1 Canada Goose nest is very visible on a tiny island on the silt lagoon on the north side, female incubating, male chasing everyone else off!)
• 4 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 1 Herring Gull
• 2 Shelduck, 6 Shoveler, 26 Tufted Duck, 6 Teal, 2 Gadwall, 6 Pochard (4 male)
• 2 Little Grebe (male trilling very enthusuastically), pr Great Crested Grebe
• 27 Coot but no visible nests, 4 Moorhen
• 6 Lapwing, 4 Snipe, 2 Redshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3 Little Ringed Plover starting to make a lot of noise now,
• 3 Grey Heron (together), Cormorant
• male Sparrowhawk, female Kestrel
• 5 Pheasant (3 male, 2 female)
• c75 Wood Pigeon (including 1 swimming), 4 Stock Dove (including 2 bathing), 2 Collared Dove
• 2 Green Woodpecker
• 4 Swallow
• 1 singing Skylark
• 10 Pied Wagtails, 3 male Yellow Wagtail
• 3 Robin, 2 Wren,
• male Blackcap
• Blue tit, Great Tit
• 3 Chaffinch, Greenfinch,
• 12 Linnet, mostly in pairs
• 12 Magpie, 18 Carrion Crow, 1 Jackdaw over
• pr Reed Bunting

Fairlop Waters CP:

• 5 Mute Swan (2 on the fishing lake, 1 on the boating lake, and a breeding pr on the lagoon)
• 65 Canada Goose, 11 Greylag Goose
• 21 Tufted Duck, 3 Shoveler, 1 Teal, 7 Gadwall, 17 Mallard,
• 3 Great Crested Grebe (2 on the fishing lake, 1 boating lake), 6 Little Grebe all on the lagoon which has more water than ive ever seen in it.
• 17 Coot, 11 Moorhen (no visible nests)
• 2 Lesser black Backed Gull on the graveled island
• Cormorant (over)
• 2 Pheasant,
• Snipe and Green Sandpiper on the scrape (Hainault Farm)
• 11 Meadow Pipit (7 on Hainault Farm, and 4 behind the lagoon, where comparrison was able to be made with 1 singing Tree Pipit)
• 11 Skylark (mostly on Hainault Farm)
• Pied Wagtail,
• 4 Green Woodpecker
• 2 Carrion Crow, 15 Magpie, 4 Starling, 2 Blackbird, Robin, Wren
• 2 Collared Dove, 4 Stock Dove, 3 Feral Pigeon, 14 Wood Pigeon,
• 6 Chiffchaff, 2 male Blackcap, 2 Willow Warbler,
• 5 Great Tit, 6 Blue Tit
• Goldfinch, Greenfinch, 4 Chaffinch, 3 Linnet
• male Reed Bunting

Roding Valley Park, South:

• Redbridge section
• 4 Little Egret,
• 10 Blackcap, male Whitethroat, 6 Chiffchaff,
• Sparrowhawk (S Fisher)
• ps... excellent records, from this really under-reported location. (D)

Valentines Park:

• Egyptian Geese now the proud parents of 2 goslings.
• 2 singing Blackcap
• 2 singing Song Thrush
• Grey Herons and Swans still incubating. (second pair of swans have swanned off)
• Ps: Our first Mallard brood mentioned the other day, was apparently born in a back garden in Ingleby Road and ferried in a bucket, with mum following, to the park by the owner of said garden and bucket. (PHopkins)

Wanstead Flats:

• m Pheasant still. 2 Whitethroat, 11 Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, pr Reed Bunting (J Lethbridge)

Wanstead Park:

• Little Egret on the River Roding by the Old Sewage Works (THarris)