August 27, 2010

August 27th 2010

Gants Hill, Roll Gardens:
  • 17 species in the garden today:
  • 2 Spotted Flycatchers - Garden patch first seen from 8.45am to roughly 10.20am feeding between our garden & surrounding gardens which came with big Greenfinch & House Sparrows flock and once more seen again at 10.45am feeding then not seen again.
  • 1 Willow Warbler - again mingling with Greenfinches,
  • 40 Greenfinches roughly, 20 plus House Sparrows
  • 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker
  • also: 11 Blue tits, 4 Great tits, 5 Chaffinches, 2 Goldfinches (Juveniles) mingling with Greenfinches, 3 Robins (2A & 1J)1 Female Blackbird, 1 Collared Dove, 1 Magpie, 10 Starlings (6Adults & 4Juveniles 1st winter), 4 Woodpigeons (2A & 2J), Plus a big flock of 50 plus Starlings which descended upon the garden & surrounding briefly before been spook which cleared all the birds from the area which was quite a spectacle (AThomas

Wanstead Flats:
  • (06:00-09:00): Yellow-legged Gull at Alex day roost with 10 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 5 Herring Gull and c. 30 Black-headed Gull, 2 Great Black-backed Gull, Common Gull,
  • 5 Common Tern over Alex west,
  • flock of Egyptian Goose through east (Alex),
  • Snipe,
  • 3 Spotted Flycatcher (1east of Alex, 2 east end Long Wood south-side),
  • 4+ Whitethroat, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, several Chiffchaff, Willow Warbler and Blackcap,
  • 2 Whinchat,
  • Meadow Pipit, 2 Swallow and 2 Sand Martin west (40+ sp) (Nick Croft)
  • c16:00 5 Common Sandpipers on Alex,
  • juv Redstart (Long Wood), Garden Warbler, Willow Warbler, 5 Mistle Thrush, 3 Green Woodpeckers (2 juvs) (S Fisher)

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