November 16th 2010

Fairlop Waters:

• 8 Gadwall 2 Shoveler 6 GC Grebe 45 Lapwing Main Lake (Steve Bacon)

Gants Hill, Roll Gardens:

• Coal Tit (AThomas)

Grange Hill, Long Gardens:

• Coal Tit & Great Spotted Woodpecker visited this morning. The Coal Tit has been a regular visitor since the end of September. (Ian Shaw)

Hainault Farm:

• 110 Golden Plover, 150 Lapwing (SBacon)
  

Ray Park:

• Herring Gull and 10+ COmmonGulls on the field (AHobson)

Roding Valley Park:

• 2 flocks of Long Tailed Tit,
• flock of Goldfinch and a single bird elsewhere
• 5 Common Gull, Cormorant
• Jay
• Pied Wagtail
• Song Thrush
• Little Grebe on the river in the northern section (north of Chigwell Road) (AHobson)

Valentines Park:

• Valentino the Mediterranean Gull showing very well (PHopkins)
• Short walk aong the Boating Lake/Crambrook Cut:
  
• 3 Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 1 Grey Heron
• 9 Mute Swan (2 ad, 7 juv), Greylag Goose, Canada Goose, Mallard, 2 male Pochard, Tufted Duck, Coot, Moorhen
• 2 Common Gull, Black Headed Gull flcok, Mediterranean Gull (Valentino), 1 juv Herring Gull,
  
• Feral Pigeon, 1 Stock Dove, Woodpigeon,
• Grey Wagtail on the southern outfall of the boating lake
• Wren, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, Mistle Thrush
• Great Tit, Blue Tit, Long Tailed Tit, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Starling, 7 House Sparrow on Brisbane Road hedges, 6 Chaffinch, 2 Greenfinch, 5 Siskin 3 Goldfinch (Mike Condon)
  

Wanstead Flats:

• (07:30-12:00):7 pr Shoveler, 1 pr Teal, 1 pr Gadwall, 1 pr Tufted Duck (Steve Thorpe), 5 Cormorant,
• 15 + Meadow Pipit, Pied Wagtail, Skylark, 8 Chaffinch, Linnet, Lesser Redpoll, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, 1 Reed Bunting, 2 Redwing, Fieldfare, 3 Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush, 8 + Blackbird, 4 Goldcrest (and associated tit flocks), Green and Great Spotted Woodpecker, Ring Necked Parakeet and not much else sooooo to the park... NC)

Wanstead Park:

• Treecreeper (only the 2nd or 3rd record this year - only my second in 20 years - and a patch tick tick woo hoo! 120 for the year) in with a host of Goldcrest (+ 20) Coal Tit and the usuals, Firecrest (heard in the grotto),
• f Wigeon (ornamental waters), 82 Gadwall, 62 Tufted Duck, 2 Shoveler, 19 Pochard, 2 Grey Heron, 16 Siskin, Grey Wagtail, Kingfisher (NC/Steve Thorpe)
  2 Egyptian Geese on SoM (JL)