August 22, 2010

August 22nd 2010


Fairlop Gravel Works:
  • south side only:
  • 2 families of Little Grebe still present, 7 tufted ducking with mother
  • 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, juv Little Ringed Plover
  • 2 Yellow Wagtail
  • Kestrel
  • c10 Swallow, 5 House Martin
  • 3 Stock Dove (didnt really look for them today mind u)
  • 15 Linnet, Whitethroat (DEH)

Fairlop Waters:

  • Nightingale west end of fishing lake, 2 Tree Pipit, Spotted Flyctcher, (Alan Bell)
  • Combined group of 40+ Swallows & House Martins over Aldborough Stables.
  • Small group of Sand Martins over the Lagoons
  • 12 Whitethroats, Willow Warbler, 2 Chiffchaffs, Blackcap
  • 4 Blue Tits, Great Tit, a flock of Long Tailed Tits
  • 6 Robins, Dunnock, Pied Wagtail. 2 Blackbirds, 2 Green Woodpeckers.
  • 2 Great Crested Grebes, 40+ Coot, 6 Moorhens, 22 Mallard, 1 female & 3 young on the Angling Lake
  • 7 Carrion Crows, 3 Magpies
  • 125+ Canada Geese
  • 50+ Black Headed Gulls, 2 Lesser Black Backed Gulls (Ian Shaw)

Wanstead Flats:

  • (07:00-20:00):
  • 3 Redstart (east of Alex in burnt out scrub: ad male, 1 winter and possible female - still at 20:00) (Nick Croft/Steve Thorpe/Tim Harris and latterly Jonathan Lethbridge),
  • 2 Tree Pipit SSSI (Tim Harris),
  • 4 Spotted Flycatcher (Long Wood indv still, and 3 in scrub behind Alex),
  • Wheatear and 2 Whinchat still,
  • 5 Yellow Wagatils over (Alex),
  • 2 Hobby (north of Long Wood), m Peregrine (Long Wood), 4 Kestrel, 2 Sparrowhawk,
  • 5 Meadow Pipit, 2 Skylark,
  • 10+ Lesser Whiterhoat, 20+ C. Whitethroat, 10+ Blackcap, 10+ Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler,
  • 6 House Martin, 5 Sand Martin, Swallow,
  • c.300+ Black-headed Gull, 4 Great Black-backed Gull, 20+ Lesser Black-backed Gull, 5 Herring Gull, 3 Common Gull,
  • 3 Collared Dove, 2 Stock Dove, 3 Goldinch, 20+ Greenfinch,
  • 10 Ring-necked Parakeet (going south to roost) and the usuals to the sum of 50 sp (Nick Croft)

Wanstead Park:

  • Lesser-spotted Woodpecker (heard osw),
  • dozens of Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Whitethroat, and few of Willow Warbler and Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler
  • Hobby, Sparrowhawk,
  • 4 Sand Martin,
  • Song Thrush,
  • c.20 Little Grebe, Teal (SoM), (Nick Croft/Tim Harris/Steve Thorpe)

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