July 6th 2010

Five Oake Lane Scrubland:

• c100 Swifts circling high over the site
• female Kestrel and female Sparrowhawk both hunting.
• Stock Dove
• Garden Warbler, Chiffchaff, Whitethroat
• 11 Linnet, 2 Greenfinch
• singing Song Thrush
• 12 male Yellowhammer singing (that is the most recorded so far, by 1)

Valentines Park:

• Great Crested Grebe pair still have a chick (on the back)
• Egyptian Goose pair with 3 ducklings (GWare)

Wanstead Flats:

• (06:30-11:00):
• Adult Mediterranean Gull just south of Alexandra Lake in with some Black-headed Gulls roosting on the footie pitches (P Ferris, J Lethbridge, Nick Croft),
• c. 30 Black-headed Gull, 5 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 25 Cormorant over,
• 20+ House Martin (one large group south of Long Wood), 3 Swallow, c100+ Swift (over the whole flats),
• 15 Ring Necked Parakeet (mainly over north),
• 3 Grey Heron (over Alexandra Lake at 07:00),
• 3 Stock Dove, Collared Dove,
• Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (west from Alexandra Lake), 4 Greater-spotted Woodpecker, 3 Green Woodpecker,
• 5 Song Thrush, 7 Mistle Thrush,
• Blackcap, Whitethroat, Chiffchaff,
• 2 Sparrowhawk, 1 Kestrel,
• c.20+ Jackdaw, 6 Jay, 6 Magpie,
• 2 Tufted Duck, Little Grebe, Moorhen with 4 chicks (Alexandra Lake again),
• Skylark, Meadow Pipit, Greenfinch, Linnet, Goldfinch, Reed Bunting, Pied Wagtail (49 sp in total) (Nick Croft)
• 4 House Martins collecting nest material by Alexandra Lake
• pr Little Grebe with 2 young (PFerris)

Woodford Green, Broadmead Estate:

• family of 5 Goldfinch this morning (DEH)