May 9th 2010

Fairlop Waters:

• 2 Yellow Wagtails,
• Blackcap, 8 Whitethroat, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Linnet
• Common Tern
• 100+ Swifts, 4 Swallow, 4 Sand Martin (Bob Jenner)

Goodmayes, garden:

• Grey Heron (over)
• fledged Robins (see pic above)
• Jay (Alex Blackman)

Redbridge, River Roding:

• looking down the Roding from Red Bridge itself I saw one Little Egret fishing in shallow rapids and it caught three fish in the time I could stand the fumes from the road watching ! I suspect it was fishing for a nearby nest ( on the pumping station site possibly?)

Valentines Park:

• Great Crested Grebes have now relocated their nest away from the Coots nest, after mass twig theft scandal, and are now sitting on 2 eggs.
• 14 Swallows feeding (personal site record) (PHopkins)
• Cormorant,
• Grey Heron family (2 ad, 2 young)
• 3 Mute Swan (pair on the baoting lake still nesting, singleton on the fish lake)
• Canada Geese, family of 4 Egyptian Geese still all present and correct
• Mallards, including the foster mum who still has 21 chicks of various ages, and another brood of 9 with their own mother.
• Tufted Ducks, Moorhen, Coot
• 5 Black Headed Gulls!
• Feral Pigeons, 1 Stock Dove, 2 Colalred Doves, Woodpigeons,
• 4 Swift
• 2 Green Woodpecker
• 2 Pied Wagtail
• Wren, Dunnock, Robin, Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird
• 2 Blackcap
• Blue Tits, Great Tits, 4 Long Tailed Tits
• Magpie, Carrion Crows, Starling
• 7 House Sparow
• 2 Chaffinch and 4 Greenfinch along Brisbane Road (Mike Condon)

Seven Kings Park:

• Swift (over)

South Park:

• 3 Swifts (DEH)

South Woodford:

• Little Egret (over) PGordon

Wanstead:

• Cuckoo flew north over A12 by Wanstead station at 07:45 (WREN)

Wanstead Park:

• 2 crested grebes, Coots, including with chicks, Canada geese, incl with goslings, Mallard, incl with ducklings, moorhen, little grebe, Swans - 2 pairs on/around nests
• grey heron
• woodpigeons
• Great Spotted woodpecker, Green woodpecker
• wren, dunnock, robins, mistle thrush, song thrush, blackbird
• blue tits, great tits, long-tailed tits
• whitethroat, blackcap,
• jay, magpie, carrion crow, starlings.
• On the way4 x Ring Necked Parakeets over
• house sparrows (Sally Hammond)

Wanstead flats:

• Alex pond only: tufted ducks, mallards, coots, greylag geese, canada geese incl with goslings
• carrion crows
• lesser black back gull (Sally Hammond)