October 3rd 2010

Eagle Pond:

• 3 Jays in the Oak trees at the back of the lake tackling the acorns
• male Pochard

South Woodford:

• Sparrowhawk over A406 (JMakengo)

Valentines Park:

• 2 Little Grebe and 2 Great Crested Grebe on the boating lake, also Cormorant
• 1 Grey Heron on the Fish Pond
• 12 Mute Swan still (1 pr with 8 grown cynets, and the additional pair on the fish pond)
• 1 hybrid Greylag Goose, Canada Geese,
• 4 Egyptian Goose grazing
• Mallard, few Tufted Duck, 2 Pochard, Coot, Moorhen
• Black Headed Gulls and 1 Common Gull
• Green Woodpecker, Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Woodpigeon, Feral Pigeon, 1 Stock Dove, 1 Collared Dove
• 2 Meadow Pipit on the cricket pitch with 11 Pied Wagtails, 1 Grey Wagtail on Cranbrook Cut
• 1 Dunnock in the Dell, 2 Mistle Thrush, Robin, Blackbird
• 1 Goldcrest following the stream down from the fish pond waterfall (2nd time this week)
• 3 Coal Tit in a mixed-tit flock with Great Tit, Blue Tit, 8 Long Tailed Tit
• Magpie, Carrion Crow, 6 House Sparrow, 3 Chaffinch, 2 female Greenfinch, 3 Goldfinch (MCondon)
• Also: 3 Moorhen including 2 juvenile, at least 2 of the cygnets are airborne! 4 Pochard (2 prs), 2 Grey Herons (1 on each lake) 5 Egyptian Geese, 2 Jackdaw, 6 Goldfinch (Barbara J)

Wanstead Flats:

• (06:30-13:00): No conclusive sightings of Ring Ouzel but two possibles Long Wood before the kick ball crowds arrived, 2 Stonechat, 10 Mistle Thrush, 4 Song Thrush,
• m Wigeon on the Alex first thing (until 3 idiots with binoculars etc.did what a large dog had failed to do, and off it went - thanks to Marco Johnston for the spot, and I'll have another one of those patch tick thingies please, kerching! #111), Teal (Paul Ferris), 2 Gadwall, 3 Shoveler (nearly back to their pristine best), 4 Pochard,
• 1 + Yellow-legged Gull (in another early morning get together of hundreds of birds), Common Gull,
• 24 + Meadow Pipit, Tree Pipit (h SSSI, possibly one in Alex scrub) Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail,
• 9+ Chiffchaff, 3 Blackcap,
• 4 Linnet over, 6 Lesser Redpoll (south), Goldfinch, Chaffinch etc.
• 3 + Skylark,
• Hobby over Alex later, 2 Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, 22+ Swallow (SE), 2 House Martin SE (54 sp NC/Marco Johnston/Steve Thorpe/Stuart Fisher)

Wanstead Park:

• 20 House Martin feeding over Heronry,
• Hobby Over (NCroft)