December 13th 2010

Barkingside, Registry Office:

• Mistle Thrush (DEH)

Fairlop Waters:

• Redbridge Nature Conservation Team guided walk: 9am-11.30 (42 species)
• Merlin male hunting from the scrape over the fishing lake (only metres away from a lucky 'us'),
• few Mute Swan, Canada Geese, 1 Greylag Goose pr Teal, 25 Gadwall, mShoveler, 10 Pochard, c10 Tufted Duck, Mallard, Coot a plenty, Moorhens
• Cormorant, c50 Common Gull, c20 Lesser Black Backed Gulls, 100s of Black Headed Gulls, 20 Herring Gull,
• 8 Little Grebe,
• 220 Lapwing (150 on the boating lake (ice), 60 on the field behind the fishing lake with 17 Golden Plover,
• Snipe (over the boating lake), Green Sandpiper (flushed from edge of baoting lake,
• Great Spotted Woodpecker,
• 30+ Redwing, 30+ Fieldfare, 3 Song Thrush, a few Robin, Blackbirds, 3 Dunnock, Wren (heard)
• 2 Pied Wagtail,
• pr Great Tit, several groups of Blue Tit, Long Tailed Tit (2 parties), Goldcrest,
• 27 Goldfinch
• House Sparrow colony in the old Als Adventure
• Also: Carrion Crow, Woodpigeon, Magpie, Feral Pigeon, Collared Doves to a total of 42 Sepcies (Daniel Erickson-Hull, Jan Martin-Ellis, Tajinder Lachhar, Griff & Sally Holliday, Jacque Millea and others..)

Snaresbrook, Primary School:

• 8 Waxwing flew around 9.20am (JSnow)
  

South Woodford Garden:

• 8.30am
• Grey Heron over
• Waxwing IN! (PGordon)

Wanstead Flats:

• 6 Reed Bunting (SSSI), 11 + Goldfinch,
• Snipe (Jub),
  
• 3 Meadow Pipit (by Capel pt foraging on the verges),
  
• 11 Tufted Duck, 3 Shoveler,
  
• Skylark, 6 Mistle Thrush (1 singing),
  
• Green and Great Spotted Woodpecker,
  
• Sparrowhawk (NC)

Wanstead Park:

• Water Rail (perch),
  
• 45 + Tufted Duck, 54 + Gadwall, 30 + Pochard, 6 Shoveler, 5 Teal (3 River Roding, 2 the Dell), 5 Little Grebe,
  
• 30 + Siskin (west of Perch in alders),
  
• 3 Redwing, 2 Song Thrush,
  
• Grey Wagtail,
  
• 2 Grey Heron (NC)