April 23, 2010

April 23rd 2010


weather: still luvvly

Claybury Park:

  • Treecreeper
  • Blackcap, Chiffchaff (EBarnes)

Fairlop, Aldborough Riding School:

  • 2 Little Owls in the tree where they are nesting
  • 1 Pheasant

Fairlop Gravel Works:

  • 4 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 4 Mute Swan, Canada Geese (including 4 nests), Greylag Goose, 4 Shelduck, 26 Tufted Duck, 2 Teal, 3 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall
  • Cormorant, Grey Heron
  • female Kestrel
  • 8 Lapwing guarding nest sites (not sure how many yet)
  • 3 Snipe, 2 Green Sandpiper, 3+ Little Ringed Plover, 2 Redshank,
  • 1 Green Woodpecker
  • 20+ Pied Wagtail,
  • 17 Woodpigeon, 2 Stock Dove
  • 2 Swallow, 3 Sand Martin
  • 4 Blackbird, Blackcap
  • 2 Jay in the trees along Painters Road
  • female Reed Bunting

Fairlop, Painters Road:

  • 4 House Sparrows in the hedge outside the 2 houses.

Fairlop Waters CP:

  • Hobby on a fencepost in the field east of the fishing lake (Alan Bell)
  • Buzzard SE 1pm,
  • 4 Swift ,
  • Chiffchaff 2, Willow Warbler 3, Whitethroat 2,
  • 30 Linnet (Lagoon Area only lunchhour visit) (Steve Bacon)

Hainault Lodge Nature Reserve:

  • 5 Blackbird, 2 Robin
  • 1 Tawny Owl being mobbed by 2 Jay
  • 14 Woodpigeon,
  • 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker
  • 13 Blue Tit, 6 Great Tit, 2 Nuthatch (pr) (first time i have seen Nuthatch here)
  • 2 singing Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap (1m, 1f)
  • 14 Jackdaw (including several nest sites), 4 Jay (DEH)

Ilford Town Centre:

  • Pied Wagtail (Barbara J)

Ilford, garden:

  • Blackcap still singing
  • Greenfinch, Goldfinch on feeder (first for ages), Chaffinch
  • (Barbara J)

Ray Park:

  • singing Song Thrush (TLachhar)

Valentines Park:

  • Egyptian Geese -goslings bigger and swimming well, parents very protective
  • Grey Heron still on nest
  • boating lake Mute Swan still on nest
  • pr Pochard, pr Great Crested Grebe
  • 6 Black Headed Gull
  • 2 prs Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Goldfinch,
  • Stock Dove, Mistle Thrush
  • singing Blackcap
  • lots of Mallard ducklings (Barbara J)

Wanstead Flats:

  • Lesser Spotted Woodpecker,
  • Shelduck N at 06:00,
  • Lesser Whitethroat (J Lethbridge)

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