April 8th 2010

weather: sunny, 17C max

Fairlop Waters CP:

• Whitethroat in sallows at the SW corner of the boating lake at 1pm (SBacon)
• this is the first record of the year for this species!
• 2 Little Ringed Plover on the gavelled island
• 3 Goldfinch, 4 Chaffinch, 6 Greenfinch
• Chiffchaff (DEH)

Fairlop Gravel Works:

• 4 Tufted Duck, 2 Shoveler, 3 Mute Swan, Canada Geese, Greylag Geese, Mallards, Coot, Moorhen
• 2 Lesser Black Backed Gull, 1 Herring Gull
• 2 male Pheasant
• 22 Stock Dove, 40+ Woodpigeon, 4 Collared Dove
• 2 Green Woodpecker
  
• male Kestrel
  
• 3 Lapwing, 1 Snipe, 2 Redshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, 1 Little Ringed Plover
• 1 Swallow
• 5 Skylark
• 2 Linnet
  
• 1 male Reed Bunting
  

Little Heath, Hargreaves Scout Camp:

• 2 Chiffchaff, singing Blackcap
• Green Woodpecker (DEH)
  

Roding Valley Park, Central:

• 3 Blackcaps [2 m, 1 f], 2 Chiffchaffs,
• Song Thrush,
• Jay,
• 2 Long-tailed Tits (AHobson)

Wanstead Flats:

• 6.20-8.20am
• 8 Cormorants East, 2 Grey Herons
• Male Pheasant
• c20 Skylarks, most of them in song, 10 Meadow Pipits
• 5 singing Blackcaps, 3 singing Chiffchaffs
• Male Reed Bunting (Tim Harris)
• 1 male Wheatear,
• 1 Snipe,
• Shoveler (2 pairs and 2 males),
• 1 Greylag Geese,
• 1 Common Gull,
• Mistle Thrush,
• good numbers of Greater Spotted Woodpeckers and Green Woodpeckers,
• 1 Ring Necked Parakeet,
• Sparrowhawk (male), Kestrel, (Nick Croft)

Leyton Flats: (just outside the borough)

• 1 Buzzard, 1 male Wheatear, Snipe, 2 Ring-necked Parakeets, 8 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap. (Gary A James)