June 4th 2010

Ilford, garden:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker back on the peanut feeder (Barbara J)

Roding Valley Park, north:

• Little Egret on the river, just north of Chigwell Road, Woodford Bridge

South Woodford:

• Sparrowhawk hunting
• 2 Grey Heron (over) (PGordon)

Valentines Park:

• Great spotted woodpecker feeding young
• 2 cormorants
• mistle thrush
• goldfinch
• 4 wrens singing
• 70 crows
• 10 Swift
• 2 male pochard
• Great Crested Grebe back at nest having another go (Barbara J)

Wanstead Flats:

• (08:00-11:00): Barnacle Goose (on Alex) briefly before flying off with 3 Canada Geese,
• male Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker, 5 Greater Spotted Woodpecker,
• 7 Cormorant,
• Coots on the small round disappearing pond have 5 chicks (a race now between the pond drying up, Lesser Black-backs and them fledging),
• Moorhen, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Greylag Goose, Mute Swan,
• Wood Pigeon, Carrion Crow (c.100 on the playing fields), Jackdaw, 10+ Jay,10 Magpie,
• Greenfinch,Chaffinch,
• 2+ singing Reed Bunting,
• Starling (mixed flocks of adults and juvs),
• Blackbird, Song Thrush, 7 Mistle Thrush, Robin, Wren, Dunnock
• Blue Tit, Great Tit,
• Whitethroat, Blackcap, 2 Chiffchaff singers,
• 4 House Martin, Swallow, c.20 Swifts,
• Little Grebe,
• m Kestrel,
• 4 Lesser Black-Backed Gull, Common Gull,
• Pied Wagtail (Nick Croft).

Woodford Green, Broadmead Estate:

• Jackdaw still (making a lotof noise at 7am)
• pair of Goldfinch