MARCH 2004

• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler, m Red-breasted Merganser (AAB)
• Amwell: Avocet (RW)
• Creekmouth: pr Oystercatcher, m Pintail, 7 Gadwall, 5pr Shelduck, Kingfisher (DMo)
• Curtis Mill Green: Tree Sparrow, 13 Greenfinch, 40 Fieldfare (KT)
• Hornchurch CP: Cuckoo near the site (Sam Shippey)
• South Access Road, Walthamstow: Dark-bellied Brent Goose feeding on cricket pitch for ten minutes! (Martin Jordan)

• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler, Jack Snipe (AAB)
• Dagenham Chase: Black-tailed Godwit, 9m Chiffchaff, 6 Snipe, 3 Rook (KB)
• Romford (private garden): Blackcap, Chiffchaff (KB)
• Walthamstow Res: pr Garganey, Common Sand, 6 Shelduck (CL)
• Cornmill Meadows: Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 2 Chiffchaff (C&PL)
• KGV Res: m Red-breasted Merganser, Wheatear (MS)
• Connaught Water: pr Red-crested Pochard, Barnacle Goose (DH)
• Rainham Marshes: 30 Dark-bellied Brent Geese (Gerry Pittaway, Steve Hall)

• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler, Little Owl, 83 Fieldfare, 14 Redwing (AAB)
• Ingrebourne Valley: 2 Grey & 1 Red-legged Partridge, 2pr Bullfinch, Blackcap (DMo)
• Girling Res: 22 Black-necked Grebe, 7 Red-breasted Merganser (PJV)

• Rainham Marshes: 4pr Pintail, 3 Little Egret, 3 Curlew, m Peregrine, 108 Wigeon, 6 Snipe (DMo)
• Dagenham Chase: Green Sand, LRP (TK) 2 Chiffchaff (Julian Nash)
• Ingrebourne Valley: 3m Cetti's Warblers (LH) 8 Yellowhammer, Swallow, 10 Sand Martin, 11 Water Rail, 5pr Mute Swan, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Green Sandpipers (DMo morning) Willow Warbler, 3 Water Rail, pr Bullfinch, Ring-necked Parakeet, 2 LRP, 120 Golden Plover, 24 Teal, 2 Gadwall (HV evening)
• Sewardstone Marsh: 2 Sand Martin (MDD)
• KGV Res: White Wagtail (MDD)
• Frost Site: 2 Wheatear (MDD)
• Holyfield Hall Farm: Yellowhammer (MDD)
• Fishers Green Goose-field: 23 Wigeon, Ruddy Headed Goose (SRH)
• Hall Marsh Scrape: 4 Wigeon, 2 LRP, Wheatear (SRH)
• Walthamstow Res: pr Garganey
• Harold Hill: all three Woodpeckers (CRJ)
• South Weald: Woodcock (CRJ)
• Weald Park: Hawfinch in Yew by Belvedere CP, pr Lesser Spots, pr Grey Wagtail, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Lesser Redpoll (CRJ)

• Ponders End Lake: 2m Garganey
• Rainham Marshes: 4pr Pintail, 4 Little Egret, 3m1f Wheatear, 185 Wigeon, Curlew (HV et al)
• Thorndon CP: 4 Green Woodpecker, 3m Great Spot, 2 Treecreeper, 4 Nuthatch, m Bullfinch, 2 singing male Siskin, 3 Coal Tit (R&DB)
• Dagenham Chase: Willow Warbler, 25 Sand Martin (AAB)
• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler, Green Sandpiper (AAB)
• Dagenham (private garden): Woodcock (Julian Nash)

• Bulphan Fen: 69 Fieldfare, 8 Red-legged Partridge, 30 Linnet, no sign of the White Stork (KB)
• Curtis Mill Green: pr Treecreeper, Ksetrel, Green Woodpecker (KT)
• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler
• Amwell: LRP, Ringed Plover, 4 Redshank, 4 Lapwing, 22 Sand Martin, f Goldeneye, 12 Little Grebe, 3 drumming Great Spots, 2m Chiffchaff, 30 Chaffinch, 6 Reed Bunting (HV)
• Rye Meads RSPB: 2 Chiffchaff, pr Shelduck (HV)
• Fishers Green Goose-field: 14 Golden Plover south, pr Shelduck, 57 Greylag, 2 Barnacle Geese, 27 Wigeon, 14 Teal, 3 Chiffchaff (HV)
• KGV Res: 6 Sand Martin (HV)
• Bedfords Park: pr Mandarin, 3m Pheasant, Fieldfare, 2pr Mistle thrush, 13 Chiffchaff, 12pr Long-tailed Tit, 3 Coal Tit, Nuthatch, 3pr Bullfinch, f Reed Bunting (CRJ)
• Lower Bedfords Road: 2m Skylark, 6 Fieldfare (CRJ)

• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler
• KGV Res: Barnacle Goose, LRP, 25 Sand Martin (RW) Wheatear (PJV)

• Dagenham Chase: 2 LRP, 6 Gadwall, 19 Teal, 23 Shoveler, 4 Snipe (KB)
• Curtis Mill Green: 12 Greenfinch, m Bullfinch, 7 House Sparrow, 11 Blue Tit (Kevin Tunnicliffe)
• Rainham Marshes: 2 Little Egret, pr Wheatear, pr Stonechat, 3 Curlew, 12 Pintail, Chiffchaff (RSPB)
• Bedfords Park: 2m1f Mandarin, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, Redwing, 9 Lesser Redpoll (CRJ)
• Weald Park: 4m Chiffchaff, 192 Jackdaw

• Barking Bay: f Ruddy Shelduck, 2 Blackwit, 3 Wheatear 1 Dunlin, 2 Oystercatcher, 10 Redshank, 90 Shelduck, 27 Teal (KB)
• Paine's Brook, Harold Hill: pr Grey Wagtail (CRJ)
• Harold Court: 5m Skylark (CRJ)
• Pages Farm, Upminster: 100 Meadow pipits, 5 Yellowhammer, 6m Skylark (CRJ)
• Bedfords Park: 3m2f Mandarin, 4 Fieldfare, 2m Goldcrest, 4m Chiffchaff, 9pr Long-tailed Tit, pr Nuthatch, 3 Bullfinch, 8 Lesser Redpoll (CRJ) male Brambling (Visitor Centre Staff)
• Roydon: 22 Wigeon from train (HV)

• Curtis Mill Green: 2 Little Owl, Grey Wagtail, 40 Chaffinch (Kevin Tunnicliffe)
• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler, m Wheatear
• Belhus Woods CP: 3 LRP, White Wagtail (KB)
• Ilford (private garden): m Blackcap (PV)
• Weald Park: 3pr Great Crested Grebe, 54 Canada Geese, 160 Mallard, Pochard, 12 Tufted Duck, pr Kestrel, 2 Grey Wagtail, 6m Chiffchaff, 5 Goldfinch, 5 Siskin (CRJ)
• Nags Head SW, Brentwood: 12 Teal, Water Rail, Snipe (CRJ)

• Rainham Marshes: 3m1f Wheatear, f Peregrine, ad Yellow-legged Gull, 2 Little Egret, 2 Chiffchaff, Green Sandpiper (HV, NB-W, PH)
• Walthamstow Res: Black-necked Grebe, Grey Wagtail, Wheatear, Water Pipit (Chris Langsdon)
• Barking Bay: f Ruddy Shelduck, 2 adult Med Gulls, Oystercatcher (Sean Huggins)
• Epping Forest: 19 Mandarin (IW)
• Connaught Water: f Red-crested Pochard, 2 Puna Teal (IW)
• Belhus Woods CP: 4 LRP (SBa)
• Hainault Forest CP: 109 Common Gull (SBa)
• Kennington Park: Cetti's Warbler (SBa)
• Purfleet to Grays: 27 Curlew, 80 Blackwit, 9 Oystercatcher (David Jobbins)
• West Thurrock: m Wheatear, Sparrowhawk (David Jobbins)
• Dagenham Chase: 20 Sand Martin (KB) Swallow (HV) LRP (VH-F)
• Ingrebourne Valley: pr LRP, Water Pipit (Les Harrison) 100 Golden Plover, Cetti's Warbler (TK)
• Fairlop: Chiffchaff (PV) m Wheatear (Mike Messenger) 2 LRP (AAB)
• Corbets Tey Park: Ring-necked Parakeet (DMo)
• Bedfords Park: 6 Lesser Redpoll, Chiffchaff (CRJ)
• Weald Park: 2 Chiffchaff (CRJ)
• Reed Pond Walk, Gidea Park: pr Kestrel, m Chiffchaff (CRJ)

• Dagenham Chase: 20 Sand Martin, Swallow (KB, VH-F)
• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler
• Weald Park: 11 Lesser Redpoll, 1 possible Mealy Redpoll, Firecrest (CRJ)

• Dagenham Chase: 2 Sand Martin (KB)
• Bedfords Park: 4m3f Mandarin, 5 Redwing, singing Chiffchaff, 2 Goldcrest, 10 Lesser Redpoll (CRJ)
• Lower Bedfords Road: 3 singign Skylark (CRJ)
• Rainham Marshes: Short-eared Owl 0645 from A13 (David Barnes)
• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler

• Curtismill Green: Goldcrest, Reed Bunting, Chiffchaff, Sparrowhawk, 48 Woodpigeon (Kevin Tunnicliffe)
• Dagenham Chase: 8 Sand Martin (AAB)
• Bedfords Park: 2m 1f Mandarin, pr Kestrel, 24 Redwing, 2 Goldcrest, 3 m Chiffchaff (CRJ) Woodcock (Michelle Pearson)
• Gidea Park, Heath Drive (private lake): 3m2f Mandarin, pr Mute Swan (CRJ)
• Harold Hill: pr Tawny Owl (CRJ)
• Brandon Groves, South Ockenden: White Stork on roof top at about 4pm (Carol Kitching)

• Rainham Marshes: m Wheatear, 2 Little Egret, 2 Ruff, Oystercatcher (HV) 2 Sand Martin (DFn)
• Roding Valley Meadows: singing Chiffchaff (PV)
• Hawksmere Springs, Stapleford Tawney: Chiffchaff, 55 Fieldfare (PV)
• KGV Res: Sand Martin (MS)
• Sewardstone Marsh: 9 Chiffchaff, Redshank (MS)
• Highams Park: Ring-necked Parakeet (MDD)
• Walthamstow Reservoir: 2 male Common Scoter, Black-necked Grebe (John Picton)
• Weald Park: m Pochard, pr Little Owl, 7 Green Woodpecker, 7 m Goldcrest, m Chiffchaff, Siskin, Lesser Redpoll (CRJ)
• Great Warley, Dark Lane: 3m Song Thrush, 4 Goldcrest, Chiffchaff (CRJ)
• Tylers Common: Woodcock, 2m Skylark, m Reed Bunting (CRJ)

• Wanstead Park: m Ring-necked Parakeet, all three Woodpeckers (1 Lesser Spot), 4 Siskin, 7 Meadow Pipit (north), pair White Wagtail, 32 Shoveler, 12 Gadwall (HV)
• Dagenham Chase: Green Sandpiper, pr Greylag, 10 Gadwall (KB in am) 2 Sand Martin, House Martin, 42 Shoveler, 23 Teal, 4 Snipe, 12 Redwing (HV evening)
• KGV Res: m Wheatear (MS)
• Ilford (private garden): m Blackcap (HV)
• Connaught Water: f Red-crested Pochard, 3 m Mandarin (NCG)
• Seventy Acres Lake: m Smew (NCG)
• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler (NCG)
• Lower Bedfords Road: 20 Redwing, 8 Fieldfare (CRJ)

• Ilford (private garden): m Blackcap (HV)
• South Weald: 2 Grey Wagtail (CRJ)
• Weald Park: 3 Goosander, 168 Mallard (CRJ)
• Warley CP: 3 Yellowhammer, m Reed Bunting (CRJ)
• Amwell: 5 Little Egret, Water Rail (MS)
• Seventy Acres Lake: 2 Little Ringed Plover, pr Smew (MS)
• Rainham Marshes: male Merlin (NB-W, Paul Hyde)

• Cheshunt town centre: Red-throated Diver flew over at 1430 (RW)
• Seventy Acres Lake: Bittern, 2 Little Ringed Plover, Redshank (Chris & Peter Langsdon)
• Fishers Green Goosefield: 45 Wigeon (MDD)
• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler
• South Weald (private wood): 250 Chaffinch, m Brambling, 20 Greenfinch, Hawfinch (CRJ)
• Weald Park: 2 Firecrest, 27 Redwing, 3 Goosander, 6 Great Crested Grebe (CRJ) Hawfinch (Andrew Stroud)

• South Park, Ilford: male Alexandrine Parakeet (KB)
• Connaught Water: male Garganey, 60 Teal, 4 Mandarin, Barnacle Goose (RB)
• Belhus Woods CP: Little Ringed Plover, 2 Smew
• Paines Brook, Harold Park: 3 Grey Wagtail (CRJ)
• Harold Court: 5 Snipe, 6 Skylark (CRJ)
• Hampden Wood, Warley: 6 Siskin (CRJ)

• Ilford (private garden): m Blackcap (HV)
• Harold Hill: pr Tawny Owl, pr Hawfinch, 40 Greenfinch, 53 Redwing, Grey Wagtail (CRJ, Sid Petts)
• Weald Park: f Hawfinch, 3 Goosander, 3 Tufted Duck, 7 Pochard (CRJ, Sid Petts)
• South Weald: 60 Redwing, Grey Wagtail, 4 Siskin (CRJ)
• Mascalls Lane, Brentwood: 110 Linnet (CRJ)
• Warley Place: 3 Firecrest (CRJ)
• Great Warley, Headley Common: 2 Firecrest, 5 Goldcrest (CRJ)
• Clements Park, Warley: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Andrew Stroud)
• Rainham Marshes: Peregrine (Steve Hall)

• South Park, Ilford: male Alexandrine Parakeet (HV)
• Barking Park: Grey Wagtail (HV)
• Ilford (private garden): m Blackcap (RV)
• Rainham Marshes: m Peregrine (HV)
• Harold Hill: pr Tawny Owl, f Hawfinch (CRJ)
• Bedfords Park: 9 Mandarin, Red-legged Partridge, Pheasant, 7 Stock Dove, 25 Meadow Pipit, 5 Fieldfare, 85 Redwing, 24 Long-tailed Tit, Lesser Redpoll, 4 Bullfinch, 54 Jackdaw (CRJ)

• Dagenham Chase: Blackwit, 240 Golden Plover, 13 Gadwall, pr Greylag, 28 Shoveler, 16 Teal, 6 Snipe, 114 Fieldfare, 19 Redwing (KB)
• Rainham GP: 200 Golden Plover (HV)
• Rainham Marshes (Stone Barges): 5 Water Pipit, 2 Rock Pipit, 6 Greenfinch, Twite, colour-dyed Black-headed and Herring Gull(HV)
• Rainham Marshes (Aveley Pools and Bay): 147 Golden Plover, 1400 Lapwing, 36 Dunlin, 2 Curlew, 2 Avocet, 42 Redshank, 29 Snipe, 27 Pintail, 168 Shoveler, 300 Wigeon, Rock Pipit, 6 Reed Bunting, m Sparrowhawk, ringtail Hen Harrier (north) (HV et al)
• Grays: Fulmar on Thames viewable from both sides 1500-1730pm (Steve Connor & RB)
• Ilford (private garden): m Blackcap (HV)

• Bulphan Fen: Gery Partridge, 3 Red-legged Partridges (KB)
• Weald Park: female Hawfinch (Belvedere), 6 Great Crested Grebe, 147 Mallard, 5 Pochard, 3 Goosander,4 Fieldfare, 3pr Mistle Thrush, Firecrest, 62 pr Jackdaw, 15 Siskin (CRJ)
• East India Dock Basin: m Scaup (GJ)

• Rainham Marshes: 4 adult Bewick's Swans south over reserve at 0715 (HV)
• Connaught Water: male Garganey, male Smew, 28 Mandarin, 68 Teal, pr Gadwall, Barnacle Goose (KB, HV)
• Ingrebourne Valley (Albion Pools): 1st winter Whooper Swan briefly before flying north up valley at 1630 (AV, HV)
• Ilford (private garden): m Blackcap (LV)
• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler
• Epping (private garden): male Blackcap (Anthony Harbott)
• Harold Hill, Hatters Wood: 2 Tawny Owl (CRJ)
• Pages Farm, Upminster: 30 Skylark, 16 Fieldfare, 14 Yellowhammer (CRJ)
• Bedfords Park: pr Mandarin, Great Crested Grebe, all 3 Woodpeckers (CRJ)
• Heath Drive Gidea Park (private): Mandarin (CRJ)
• Romford Golf Course: 58 Magpie (CRJ)
• Hainault Forest CP: Marsh Tit, M Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (SBa)
• Girling Reservoir: 9 Black-necked Grebe

• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler
• Copped Hall: female Merlin (Simon Satchell)
• Connaught Water: male Garganey, male Smew, 11 Mandarin (MDD)
• Bittern Watchpoint: Bittern (MDD)
• Holyfield Hall Farm: pair Brambling (MDD)
• Ingrebourne Valley: Cetti's Warbler, 9 Yellowhammer, 30 Greylag, 6 Gadwall (KB)
• Rainham Marshes (Aveley Pools and Bay): 1st winter Glaucous Gull, male Goldeneye, 120 Blackwit, 65 Dunlin, 57 Snipe, Jack Snipe, 86 Golden plover, 1500 Lapwing, 2 Curlew, 276 Redshank, 164 Fieldfare, 2 Redwing, 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Kingfisher, male Peregrine, 2f 1m Sparrowhawk, 3 Reed Bunting, 16 Rock Pipit, Water Pipit, pair Stonechat (HV & Sevenoaks RSPB) 32 Pintail, 2 Ringed Plover (DMo)
• Rainham Marshes (Stone Barges): 7 Water Pipit, 7 Rock Pipit, pair Oystercatcher, 6 Snipe, 14 Meadow Pipit, Dunlin (HV)
• Harold Hill, Hatters Wood: 2 Tawny Owl (CRJ)
• Harold Hill: f Hawfinch, 45 Redwing (CRJ)
• South Weald (private wood): pr Hawfinch, 130 Chaffinch, Brambling, 20 Greenfinch (CRJ)
• Weald Park: pr + imm m Goosander, 2 Firecrest (CRJ)
• Nags Head Lane, Brentwood: 120 Linnet, 45 STock Dove, 83 Redwing (CRJ)

• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler
• Ilford (private garden): m Blackcap (LV)
• Hornchurch: Peregrine (DMo)
• Mascalls Lane, Brentwood: Buzzard, 75 Stock Dove, 100 Fieldfare (CRJ)
• Warley CP: 60 Redwing, 11 Lesser Redpoll (CRJ)
• Weald Park: pr Goosander (CRJ)
• Aimes Green: 30 Meadow Pipit (MS)
• Waltham Abbey: Yellowhammer, 50 Redwing (MS)
• Claverhambury: 2 Red-legged Partridges, Bullfinch, 250 Fieldfare (MS)
• Dagenham Chase: Shelduck, 16 Meadow Pipit, Chiffchaff, 20 Fieldfare, Kingfisher, 8 Snipe, 47 Shoveler, 20 Teal, 8 Gadwall (KB)
• Seventy Acres Lake: 2 Bittern, 4m 6f 1 imm m Smew (RW)
• Holyfield Lake: f Smew (RW)
• Whitehall Plain, EF: Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (Ian Shaw)
• Hollow Ponds: f Mandarin (Mike Messenger)
• Lion Gorge, Chafford Hundred: 20 Siskin (Paul Boyce)

• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler
• Ilford (private garden): m Blackcap (LV)
• Bedfords Park: 8 Cormorant, 2 Heron, 3 Gadwall, 2 Shoveler, 6 each of Green & Great Spot Woodpecker, 12 Meadow Pipits, 170 Redwing, 40 Chaffinch, 2 Lesser Redpoll, 4 Bullfinches (CRJ)

• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler, Snow Bunting
• Warley Place EWT: 2 Firecrest (CRJ)
• Headley Common, Great Warley: 2 Firecrest (CRJ)
• Weald Park: 64 Canada Geese, 110 Mallard, 5 Pochard, pr Goosander, 2pr Little Owl, 140 Redwing, 2 Firecrest, 7 Nuthatch (CRJ)
• Central Park, Harold Hill: male Brambling, 60 Chaffinch, 20 Greenfinch, 55 Redwing (CRJ)
• Ilford (private garden): m Blackcap (LV)

• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler
• Rainham Marshes: 46 Snipe, 32 Blackwit, 2 Curlew, 29 Pintail, 45 Skylark, 80 Goldfinch, 18 Pied Wagtail, Grey Wagtail, dead Barn Owl (HV)
• Ilford (private garden): m Blackcap (LV)
• Essex Filter Beds: f Merlin (GJ)
• Holyfield Hall Farm: 3 Tree Sparrows (Graham White)

• Eagle Pond: 98 Shoveler (CRJ)
• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler
• Ilford (private garden): m Blackcap (LV)

• Eagle Pond: 85 Shoveler (CRJ)
• Fairlop: Hume's Yellow-browed Warbler
• Ilford (private garden): m Blackcap, pr Long-tailed Tit (LV)
• Hainault Forest CP: 10 Cormorant (SBa)