November 3rd 2010

Claybury Park:

• Great Spotted Woodpecker
• Common Gull
• flock of Long Tailed Tit
• 3 Jay
• Goldcrest (AHobson)

Valentines Park:

• Little Grebe (4), Great Crested Grebe (2)
• Cormorant
• Mute Swan (4 ad, 7juv), 3 Greylag Goose (2 hybrids), Canada Goose, 3 Egyptian Goose,
• Mallard, Pochard (2m , 1f),Tufted Duck
• Kestrel
• Moorhen, Coot
• Black-headed Gull, Herring Gull, Common Gull, Mediterranean Gull – aka “Valentino”
• Feral Pigeon, Wood Pigeon
• Kingfisher
• Pied Wagtail, Wren, Dunnock, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Robin, Goldcrest (1), Great Tit, Blue Tit, Long-tailed Tits, Jay, Magpie, Jackdaw (2), Carrion Crow, Common Starling, House Sparrow, Chaffinch (5), Goldfinch (5) (Mike C/U3ABirding Group)

Wanstead Flats:

• (06:30-11:30):+ 200 Wood Pigeon (south), 3 Stock Dove,
• 34+ Meadow Pipit, 3 Pied Wagtail, 10+ Skylark,
• 26 Chaffinch, 6 Goldfinch, 7 Greenfinch, 5 Siskin, 6 Lesser Redpoll, 2 Linnet, 3 Brambling, 2 Reed Bunting,
• 20 + Blackbird, 14 Fieldfare, 2 Song Thrush, many Robin, 4 Mistle Thrush,
• Little Owl (being mobbed by Chaffinch and small birds in Long Wood, possibly a new bird as the resident usually roosts in one of the smaller copses!),
• Great Black-backed Gull, 2 juv Yellow-legged Gull,
• Goldcrest and the usual Tits,
• 2m Shoveler, 1 f Teal and the others (48sp NC)

Wanstead Park:

• 4 Goldcrest,
• 2 Sparrowhawk,
• 5 Gadwall (2 SoM, 3 Perch), 36 Tufted Duck (1 SoM, 32 Heronry, 3 Perch), Pochard (23 Heronry, 1 Perch), m Shoveler (Perch), Great Crested Grebe (H), 2 Little Grebe (1 SoM, 1 H),
• 2 Grey Heron, Grey Wagtail, Pied Wagtail, 2 Fieldfare, 4+ Siskin, 1 Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, 3 Brambling, 6 Redpoll, Reed Bunting, Kingfisher, Green and Great Spotted Woodpecker (NC)
• drake Mandarin on Ornamental Waters (Natalia Benajeh)