December 11th 2010

Ilford, Ingleby Road:

• female Sparrowhawk surveying feeders from tree this morning – the finches, tits and Great Spotted had all made themselves scarce though. We've noticed when the Great Spotted is on the feeder it always seems to be nervously looking skywards (JCrick)
  

Roding Valley Park:

• Snipe (flew over Redbridge Lakes),
  
• Jay, small flock of Long-tailed Tits,
  
• 2 Mute Swans (first time I've seen them on this stretch of river for many months),
  
• flock of around 20 Common Gulls (AH)

Valentines Park:

• 20 Siskin with the goldfinch flock along the alder coridor (BarbaraJ)

Wanstead, my garden:

• Teal over ENE (JL)

Wanstead Flats:

• 5 Pochard (jub), 9 Tufted Duck (2 jub, 7 Alex), 9 Shoveler, 5 Greylag Goose (west),
  
• Barnacle Goose (really wary allowed me to within 2 feet, which I think is the norm),
  
• Yellow-Legged Gull, Greater Black-backed Gull,
  
• Redwing, 3 Fieldfare, 20 + Blackbird, 2 Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush,
  
• Pied Wagtail, 4 Meadow Pipit, 2 Snipe (SSSI), 7 Skylark (east), Collared Dove, 9 Stock Dove (north), Goldcrest etc. (46sp NC)

Wanstead Park:

• 2 Water Rail (Ornamental Waters - Tim Harris, 1 Perch),
  
• 44 Pochard, 34 Tufted Duck, 9 Shoveler, 54 Gadwall, 4 Teal (including JL's garden tick), 2 Egyptian Goose, 7 Little Grebe,
  
• 5 Lesser Redpoll, 28 + Siskin,
  
• 15-20 Redwing (north), Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush,
  
• 4 Grey Heron,
  
• Coal Tit, 10 + Goldcrest, Chiffchaff (46 sp [57 sp in total] TH/NC).

Woodford Station:

• Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush, Goldfinch, Greenfinch in the station car park (AH)