December 18, 2010

December 18th 2010

Gants Hill, Roll Gardens:
  • 1 Sparrowhawk - Seen around 8.05am with an unsuccessful attack.
  • 2 Coal tits, 14 Blue tits, 4 Great tits
  • 16 House Sparrows
  • 11 Chaffinches, 14 Greenfinches, 10 Goldfinches
  • 3 Blackbirds
  • 2 Great Spotted Woodpeckrs (Males)
  • 2 Robins, 2 Magpies, 1 Dunnock, c40 -50 Starlings flock in garden.
  • 3 Wood Pigeons, 12 Feral Pigeons
  • plus - 1 Dog Fox(Male) trying to catch any birds of which it did not succeed. (Alan Thomas)
Roding Valley Park:
  • Woodcock , Grey Heron, 2 Redwings, 2 Great Spotted Woodpeckers, 5 Song Thrushes, 8 Goldfinches, 4 Common Gulls. (Alan Hobson)

Wanstead Flats:

  • 4 Reed Bunting (SSSI), 1 Coot (jub the rest have gone probably to Alex), 2 Meadow Pipit, 2 Skylark (east), 4 Redwing (north), 3 Fieldfare (n), Song Thrush, Mistle Thrush (JL), 2 Cormorant, 5 Gadwall, 27 Shoveler, hoards of Coot, Moorhen, Mallard, Geese and gulls on a patch of water no bigger than a tennis court, Goldcrest, Long-tailed Tit and others before the white-out and then not a lot (NC/J Lethbridge)

Wanstead Park:

  • 2 m Wigeon (R Roding), 6 Teal (Roding and 1 Reservoir Wood), 60 + Tufted Duck (including a flock of 18 trying to find water), c. 40 Gadwall, 34 + Pochard, c. 6+ Shoveler, 6 Little Grebe (2 on the Roding),
  • 3 Snipe (Reservoir Wood's little drainage stream),
  • Grey Heron,
  • Kestrel, Sparrowhawk,
  • Great and Green Woodpecker, Lesser Redpoll, 13 Siskin (NC/JL)

Woodford Station:

  • Carpark - mistle Thrush (AHo)

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