August 28, 2010

August 28th 2010

Aldborough Hall Farm:


  • 2 Kestrels trying to hunt but being mobbed by crows and magpies
  • 5 Carrion Crows, 3 Magpies, 20 Wood Pigeon, 2 Swallow (Chris Gannaway)

Fairlop Waters CP:

  • Stables:
  • 20+ house martins
  • 2 robins, 5 starlings, 9 linnets, 30+ feral pigeon flock, 5 collared doves
  • 5 juvenile spotted flycatchers (on Country park boundary)
  • 8 juvenile goldfinches (on Country park boundary)
  • 1 juvenile willow/chiffchaff (on Country park boundary)
  • 1 juvenile green woodpecker (on Country park boundary)
  • Lagoon: 5 Gadwall, pair of Coot, 5 Coot
  • Golf Course: 30 House Martins, 4 Swallow
  • Boating Lake: 2 pairs of Great Crested Grebe with a chick each, lots of Coot
  • Gravelled Island: 5 Lapwing, 40 Canada Geese, 1 juv Greylag Goose
  • has anybody noticed a decline in Blackbirds this year? they have become a bit of a rarity on my local patch? (Chris Gannaway)
Gants Hill, Roll Gardens:


  • 8 House Martins feeding high over the back garden 4.10pm
  • juv Sparrowhawk at 9am (AThomas)

Roding Valley Park, South Woodford:

  • Sparrowhawk, 3 Jay (PGordon)

Valentines Park:

  • 5 Egyptian Geese on Fish Pond this morning. 2 that later flew to the Boating Lake, look like our old friends, but then, so do the other three.
  • Grey Wagtail on the brook (PHopkins)

Wanstead Flats:

  • 5 Spotted Flycatcher,
  • 1 Wheatear, 5 Whinchat,
  • 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 13 Whitethroat, 3 Blackcap, Garden Warbler, 2 Willow Warbler, 8 Chiffchaff,
  • 2 Hobby, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel,
  • 11 House Martin, 5 Yellow Wagtail West,
  • 50+ Long-tailed Tit, 1 Skylark (S Fisher)
  • Wheatear, Whinchat, Meadow Pipit, Skylark, 2 Gadwall (Alex), Greater Black Backed Gull, 4 Lesser Black Backed Gull, Whitethroat... + 2 Noctule Bat (Nick Croft 20:00 until it was too dark to see)
Wanstead Park:


  • 3 Hobbies flying around the Shoulder of Mutton Pond (Kathy Hartnett)
  • Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Paul Ferris)

Wanstead Old Sewage Works:

  • 4 Spotted Flycather, 1 Pied Flycatcher (Paul Ferris)
  • 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 10 Blackcap (SFisher)

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