MAY 2004

• Epping Forest: currently 12 broods of Mandarin have been found on the forest ponds (IW)
• Cranham Marsh: singing Tree Pipit (RB)
• Sunshine Plain: singing Tree Pipit, pr Spot Fly (RW)
• Passingford Bridge: Spotted Flycatcher (CRJ, AAB)

• Fishers Green sub-station area: Hobby, Nightingale (IW)
• Harold Park: Grey Wagtail (CRJ)

• Thames Chase: Broadfields Farm: 6 Willow Warbler, 3 Yellowhammer (HV)
• Rainham Marshes: brood of 10 new Shelduck (Sam Shippey)
• Weald Park: Kingfisher, 2pr Spot Fly (CRJ)

• Fairlop: 2 Dunlin (AAB)

• Walthamstow Reservoirs (Banbury): possible Quail calling at 6pm from field on south side (DD-L)
• Weald Park: Spot Fly, Common Sand, Common Tern, 2 Little Owl (CRJ)
• Barking Park: 136 Carrion Crow (PV)

• Passingford Bridge: 3 Spotted Flycatcher, Turtle Dove, Hobby (CRJ)
• KGV Res: Sanderling, Ringed Plover

• Rainham Marshes: Cuckoo, pr Sparrowhawk, m Peregrine, brood of 8 Shelduck (NB-W)
• Warlies Park, Upshire: brood Mandarin, Common Buzzard, Turtle Dove, 2pr Sparrowhawk (HV)
• Epping Forest: 6 brood Mandarin so far (IW)
• Risebridge GC: Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat (CRJ)

• Dagenham Chase:2 Common Sand, 3 Common Tern, Cuckoo (JN)

• Walthamstow Reservoir: 59 Great Crested Grebe, 93 Mute & 4 Black Swan, 2 Common Sand, 350 Swift, 43 Common Tern (SRH)
• Nags Head Lane: 138 Stock Dove (CRJ)
• Nags Head Lane Fishery: m Lesser Whithethroat, m Yellow Wagtail, 40 House Martin, 4pr Common Tern (CRJ)
• Harold Court: Cuckoo (CRJ)

• Fairlop: summer plumage Red-necked Grebe early morning before going to.......
• Dagenham Chase: Red-necked Grebe (1st site record) also 2 Common Sand, 3 Common Tern, 2 Cuckoo (KB)
• Fairlop: 2 Ringed Plover, 2 Red-legged Partridge (AAB)
• Rainham Marshes: Dunlin, 10 Greylag (JN)

• Fairlop: summer plumage Red-necked Grebe (AAB)
• Bedfords Park: Tawny Owl (CRJ)
• Weald Park: Spotted Flycatcher (CRJ)
• Rainham Marshes: Dunlin, pr Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear (JN)

• Rainham Marshes: Turtle Dove (RSPB)
• Cornmill Meadows: 2m1f Wigeon (RW)
• Weald Park: Spotted Flycatcher (CRJ)
• Long Running: 2m Tree Pipit (MS)
• Seventy Acres Lake: 6 Hobby (MS)

• Fairlop: Red Kite 11.20am (Bob Abel) Cuckoo (AAB)
• Whipps Cross: White Stork
• Rainham Marshes: 3Hobby, 2 Common Sandpiper, LRP, m Wheatear (JN)
• Dagenham Chase: 2m Mandarin, 8 Greylag, Common Tern (KB)
• Bedfords Park: pr Mandarin, Cuckoo, 5 Garden Warbler, 5 Willow Warbler (CRJ)

• Weald Park: 2 Reed warbler, Common Tern (CRJ)
• Tylers Common: Cuckoo, Hobby, 2 Mipit, 2 Lesser Whitethroat (CRJ)

• Bedfords Park: 2 Nightingale, Sedge Warbler, 4 Garden Warbler, 4 Willow Warbler, Cuckoo (CRJ)

• Hatters Wood: Cuckoo, Bullfinch (CRJ)
• Bedfords Park: 2 Nightingale, Sedge Warbler, 7 Small Copper (CRJ)
• Ingrebourne Valley: m Wheatear, 3 Bullfinch (KB)

• Rainham Marshes: f Marsh Harrier (DFn, NB-W) m Garganey (GP)
• Fairlop: pr Shelduck, Sedge Warbler (AAB)
• Dagenham Chase: Common Sandpiper (KB, HV)
• Harold Park: Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail (CRJ)
• Nags Head Fishery, Brentwood: 10 Common Tern (CRJ)
• Weald Park: Lesser Whitethroat, Grey Wagtail (CRJ)
• KGV Res: 2 LIttle Gull, 2 Common Sandpiper (MS)
• Sewardstone Marsh: Nightingale (MS)
• Fishers Green Sub-station: 5 Nightingale (MDD)

• Goodmayes: Black Kite
• Curtis Mill Green: pr Mandarin (KT)
• Cornmill Meadows: pr Wigeon (RW)

• Rainham Marshes: f Marsh Harrier (DFn, NB-W) Greenshank (HV)
• Tylers Hall: f Wheatear (CRJ)
• Ingrebourne Valley: Common Tern, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat (RSPB)
• KGV Res: 80 Swallow, 50 House Martin (MS)

• Bedfords Park: Spotted Flycatcher (CRJ)

• Fairlop: 2 Ringed Plover, Greenshank, Dunlin (AAB)
• Nags Head Fishery, Brentwood: 3pr Common Tern, Grey Wagtail (CRJ)

• KGV Res: 2 Hobby, Common Sand, 4 Arctic & 50 Common Tern (CL)
• Fairlop: 2 Dunlin, f Wheatear, Hobby, Corn Bunting (AAB)
• Seventy Acres Lake: 2 Whimbrel, 2 LRP, Redshank (SRH)
• Creekmouth: 4 Arctic Terns (DMo)
• Sewardstone Marsh:2 Nightingale, Lesser Whitethroat (PG)
• Bedfords Park: 2 Nightingale, 4 Garden Warbler, 2 Lesser'throat, 21 Whitethoat (CRJ)

• Fairlop: 2 Dunlin (AAB)
• Rainham Marshes: 3 Little Tern (RB) 5 Greenshank, 50 Swift, 12pr Gadwall (DMo)
• Weald Park: 3pr Great crested grebe with young, 15 Swallow, 4 House Martin, pr Grey Wagtail, 6 Garden Warbler, 15 Whitethroat, 65 pair Jackdaw, m Reed Bunting (CRJ)

• Bedfords Park: 4m Mandarin, 2 Hobby, Cuckoo, 3 Garden Warbler, 2 Lesser Throat, 2 Nightingale, Grey Wagtail (CRJ)

• Weald Park: Tree Pipit, Hobby, Cuckoo, 2 Garden Warbler (CRJ, TB)
• Rainham Marshes: Blackwit, Cuckoo (RSPB)
• Seventy Acres complex: late evening: many of all common Warbler including several Gardens. 3 Hobby over Hooks, 8 Arctic Tern on Holyfield and 12 Common on Seventy Acres (HV)
• Tylers Common: Barn Owl, Cuckoo (CRJ)

• Bedfords Park: Nightingale, 2 Garden Warbler, 6 Bullfinch, Yellowhammer, 11 Stock Dove (CRJ)
• Rainham Marshes: 1st summer Med Gull (MDD)

• Fairlop: 2 White Wagtail, Wheatear (AAB)
• Weald Park: Tree Pipit, 4 Swift, Common Tern (CRJ)
• Pilgrims Hatch: 45 Swallow, 15 House Martin (CRJ)
• Cranham GC: Little Egret, Lesser Whitethroat (DMo)

• Weald Park: 3 Tree Pipit, 80 Swallow, 15 House Martin, Garden Warbler (CRJ)
• Pilgrims Hatch: 50 Swallow, 7 House Martin, 2 Sand Martin, 6 Swift, Yellow Wagtail, Common Tern (CRJ)
• Dagenham Chase: 2 Snipe, 2 Cuckoo. Song survey - 7 Song Thrush, 11 Blackcap, 21 Whitethroat, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, 13 Willow Warbler, 5 Chiffchaff, 4 Reed Bunting (KB)

• Bedfords Park: 2 Nightingale, 3 Garden Warbler, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, Cuckoo (CRJ)
• Lower Bedfords Road: Lesser Whitethroat, f Wheatear, Hobby (CRJ)
• Fairlop:Temminck's Stint (KB, PW, AAB) Tree Pipit, 3 LRP, Common Sand and Hobby (C&PL)
• Rainham Marshes: 100 Swift, m Peregrine, 3 Ruff, 2 Avocet, 3 Dunlin, 2 Oystercatchers, Turtle Dove, Water Rail, Yellow Wagtail Willow Warbler (DMo)
• Havering Aggregates (no public access): 40 Sand Martin, 4 Yellow Wagtail, 4 House Martin, Greenshank (DMo)
• Ingrebourne Valley: 3 Wheatear, Yellow Wagtail, 2 Greenshank, Turtle Dove, Nightingale, pr Bullfinch. (DMo)
• Grange Waters Complex: Turtle Dove, Wheatear, Lesser Whitethroat, Kingfisher (DMo)
• KGV Reservoir: 16 Yellow Wagtails, Sparrowhawk, 3 Little Gulls, 2 Arctic Terns. (C&PL)
• Bowyers Water: Grasshopper Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat. (C&PL)
• Holyfield Lake: 6 Little Gulls, Black Tern (C&PL)
  

• Rainham Marshes: 43 summer plumage adult & 2 1st summer Little Gull north, drake Garganey, 3 Little Egret, 17 species of wader: 29 Barwit, Blackwit, 10 Whimbrel, Curlew, 5 Avocet, 3 Oystercatcher, 9 Dunlin, 2m1f Ruff, 2 Ringed Plover, 2 LRP, 2 Grey Plover, Lapwing, 4sp Spot Red, Redshank, 6 Greenshank, Snipe, 2 Common Sandpiper plus 400 Swift, pr Wheatear, m Whinchat (RSPB) Wood Sandpiper, m Wigeon (DMo) 85 species seen during the day
• Fairlop: Greenshank, Whimbrel, 2 Green, 1 Wood & 2 Common Sand, 2 Ringed Plover, 4 LRP, Garden Warbler, f Whinchat, 5 Wheatear, 2 Egyptian Geese (AAB)
• Ingrebourne Valley: Nightingale (LH)
• Warley CP: 9 Willow Warbler, pr Bullfinch (CRJ) 3
• Harold Court: f Wheatear, pr Yellowhammer, 11 House Martin, Kingfisher