June 2000 15,518 site hits during April, May and June - thanks for the messages - people seem to want to read them
30-6-00 Grand Union Channel Camden Town, 1
Emperor Dragonfly, 1 Large White, 1 Common Tern fishing,
daily sighting now! Herring Gull population, five nests with at
least eight young - David Darrell-Lambert
Red Path coppice area, Epping Forest, between
Connaught and Fairmead 5pm - one ringlet in the long grass,
nettles and brambles (look out for more), also 1 purple
hairstreak, bullfinch pairs Fairmead and Chingford Plain - A.Mids
29-6-00 A good breeding season for waders at Amwell: 2-3prs Ringed (1 young fledged), 5-6 prs of LRP (3 broods fledged), 1 pr Redshank (1 brood) and 6 prs Lapwing (4 broods). Had a Curlew through today in mid-Herts, autumn is underway! Graham White
28-6-00 Ponders End a curlew flew over calling 5am - A.Mids
27-6-00 Trent Park area 2 clouded yellows inc
a female which seemed to be egglaying on clovers - Robert Callf
KGV Res 1 clouded yellow and 1 painted lady -
John Fitzpatrick
26-6-00 Brox Woods 2 white admirals west end,
firecrests - Cutts, Craig and Cotton, also 10+ ringlets
Sew Marsh 1 clouded yellow
25-6-00 Brimsdown Sat 24th / Sun 25th. Male
Blk Redstart feeding from wire fence on edge of horsefield next
to overhanging factory by canal + Leggett Lorrys, Rye
Meads- 1 painted lady (24 /6) + 1 clouded yellow today
(25/6) - Richard Cope.
Walthamstow Reservoirs Banbury Reservoir 1
Little Grebe, the first for a few months! Lockwood 1 pair of
Shelduck with 1 young! The first breeding I know of for the
site! 1 Painted Lady, 2 Meadow Browns, 2 Black-tailed Skimmers.
High Maynard 1 Red Adm, 1 Small Tort. Rest of the north half of
the site, lots of Blue-tailed and Common Blue Dams. prob about
several hundred of each as they seemed to be everywhere!
Tottenham Marsh 1 Lesser Whitethroat singing from the wooded
middle section behind Stone Bridge Lock - David Darrell-Lambert
Sawbridgeworth Marsh hundreds of banded
demoiselles, also azures and red-eyed damselflies - Andrew
Hardacre
North Enfield clouded yellows 2 Trent Park, 1 Vicarage
Farm, 1 Parkside Res, total 5 red admirals - Robert Callf, Barry
Weston, Robin White
M25/M1 Junction Herts, nine marbled whites along
embankments etc, 1 painted lady - A.Mids
Cornmill 8 little ringed plovers, 2 hobby, Holyfield
area 2 green sands - Phil Vines
24-6-00 Fairlop Waters 11am 1 Little Ringed
Plover - Steve Stuart
Brox Woods excellent views of a singing male and 3
juvenile firecrests at very close range - Graham White
23-6-00 Brox Woods 1 ringlet, m brown, speck
wood, 1 c darter - Bill Cutts/Bill Craig
Ponders End Lake pair of ringed plovers - probably
sitting on eggs, various ages of juvenile c.terns, min 30 adults,
pair of gadwall, tufted ducks gathering to moult, 3 singing reed
buntings - Tony Clancy
Sewardstone Marsh 2 juvenile jays, 1 singing
nightingale, 5 red admirals, 1 painted lady, 1 fresh comma, 100
banded dem along KGV pumphouse channel - A.Mids
Goosefield/Sailing Club Road/Fishers - look out
for a possible recent sighting of a red-veined darter in the
area, not seen conclusively - Tony Gray and Mike Cotton
Rammey Marsh, Enfield Lock,1 white legged
damselfly, 1 c darter, small and essex skipper, 30+ nb 5 spot
burnet moths, 1 six spot, 10 meadow browns, 1 c blue, 2+
skylarks, 2+ m pipits, 3+ reed buntings, 1 kestrel - Clancy and
Mids
North Mymms area, 2
small skippers and a Gatekeeper - this surprised
me since the site is running about 7/10 days behind the rest of
Hertfordshire, 29 Meadow Brown, first comma for several weeks, 2
Red Admiral, 2 painted ladies - Liz Goodyear
22/6/00 Sewardstone rd c60 Swifts flew west during showery weather. 4.45pm, Chingford-over my house Whimbrel flew low over calling, at 11pm - Richard Cope
19-6-00 Trent Park, north Enfield 1 clouded
yellow Cockfosters end of park (Barry Weston), also five nb
5-spot burnet moths, 1 painted lady - Robert Callf
North Mymms area, Herts1 clouded yellow
- Liz Goodyear
Fairlop, Essex 2 clouded yellows flew
through the carpark, noon. Long Running Epping
Forest 1 tree pipit, several 4 spot chasers - Bill Craig and Mike
Cotton
Epping Forest, Wake Valley Pond m+f banded dem, perhaps
100 downy emeralds, Warren Wood 2 firecrests, 1 clouded yellow
flew through, Copped Hall 1 white-letter chrysalis found on wych
elm out of 100 caterpillars earlier in May - A.Mids
18-6-00 Brent Res - a Marbled White flew N
low (second record in two years), otherwise few butterflies; lots
of Emperor Dragonflies, Broad-bodied Chasers, Southern Hawker and
four species of damselflies. 44 pairs Common Terns - Andrew Self.
Warren Pond,
Chingford Plain and Connaught Water. (06.00-09.00).
Warren Pond - Spotted
Flycatcher, Bullfinch, 10+ Nuthatches (including a family of 6),
Green and Great Spotted Woodpeckers, 2 female Mandarins (one with
a brood of 9), 2 singing Stock Doves, plenty of 'common' woodland
birds. 1 female Emerald, 2
Large Red, 4 Red-eyed, Azure, Common Blue & Blue-tailed
Damselflies. Chingford
Plain - 3 singing Skylarks, 2 male Reed Buntings, singing Tree
Pipit, female Sparrowhawk, c15 Willow Warblers. Emperor
Dragonfly, Small Heath Butterfly. Azure, C. Blue &
L.Red Damselflies on Butlers Retreat Pond.
Connaught Waters - c12 female and eclipse male Mandarins + 3 half
grown ducklings. Family of 5 Marsh Tits (east side of lake),
Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpeckers. Several Red-eared Terrapins
and one Terrapin without 'red ears'. - Roy
Woodward
Sewardstone Marsh am.
Lots of Odonata.Black tailed Skimmer, Emperor Dragonfly,Large
red Damselfly,Common Blue Damselfly.Lots of Lesser
Whitethroat, Garden Warblers, Whitethroat. Went into the Osier
marsh and had distant views of a Hobby, very high up - H+T
Bantock
Ponders End 6am a golden plover flew over
calling - A.Mids
17-6-00 Fishers Green
& Cheshunt GP's area. (13.20-18.30)
Little Tern on tern raft to the left from the Grebe Hide
at 18.00. Pochard + brood of 3 on river between Bittern
Watchpoint and Hookes Marsh car park. 6 Gadwall broods - Hookes
Marsh pit (4 ducklings), Flood Relief channel adjacent to Hookes
Marsh (5, 3 & 1), Hall Marsh Scrape (9) and Flood Relief
channel near Holyfield Weir (6). Tufted Duck + brood of 9 on
Seventy Acres. Kingfishers at Hookes Marsh and Old River Lee
North of the Bittern Watchpoint. c50 additional adult
Gadwall and 10 male, 2 female Pochard in area. Common Terns on
all rafts. Male Ruddy Duck displaying on Holyfield Lake. Male
Hairy Dragonfly near Hookes Marsh car park, Brown Hawker
at Hall Marsh, Black-tailed Skimmers (numerous at Hall Marsh and
Holyfield Goose Field), Broad-bodied Chasers at Hall Marsh, Goose
Field and the pond by the Wren Hide, Emperors and Red-eyed
Damselflies throughout the area. Banded Demoiselles along the Old
River Lee/ Flood Relief Channel from the Grebe Hide to the
Highbridge BBQ site. - Roy Woodward.
Walthamstow Res complex.Banbury
a 1st summer Common Gull, first bird for a while, Tottenham Marsh
(Wild Marsh East) 9 Banded Demoiselle! I have only seen one
previously here, 2 Black-tailed Skimmers, 3 Red-eyed
Damselflies. My first for the site. Lockwood 3 Black-tailed
Skimmers, 2 Banded Demoiselle. My first for this res. are
they becomming commoner? 2 Lapwings on the shoreline, High
Maynard adult female Garganey! was feeding on
the overflow and then was sleeping on the east bank in the
afternoon, Pochard, female with one young, No3 2 female Pochards
with one young each, No1 two female Pochards with three young
each, No 5 Male Gadwall, East Warwick Female Gadwall, 1 Red
Admiral, Coppermill Stream Prob over 100 Red-eyed Damselflies in
three main area, just north of Forest Road, just south of the
railway line and at the southern end where the pumping station
is. - David Darrell-Lambert
KGV 1 ruddy duck, 9 lapwing, Sew Marsh 2
singing lesser whitethroats, 2 reed buntings, Brimsdown burnet
moths emerging, total of 2 c blues, 2 red admirals, 3 m browns -
A.Mids, Neil Wilson
Hampstead Heath a brimstone, several emperor
dragonflies - T.Clancy
10.20-11.40am Cormill Meadows Chiffchaff, Wren,
Bullfinch, Yellowhammer, Green Sandpiper(1), Yellow Wagtail(5),
Sand martin, Shelduck(4), Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler Grey heron,
Kestrel, Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Goldfinch, chaffinch,
Swift, Jackdaw, Cormorant, Moorhen, Coot, Mallard, Woodpigeon,
carrion crow, Reed Bunting, House martin, Pied Wagtail, Lapwing
(8) Starling - Mark Braun
Lee Valley Regional Park Bird Report for April 2000
15-6-00 Between 11am 12
midday at Gt. Amwell 2 redshank with 2 young, 3
ringed plover, also the egyptian goose has come back after a
month. Plus all the other ducks pochard, tufted, gadwall,
shelduck, lapwing, heron, cormorants, c.tern, c.geese, m.swan,
sedge warblers, reed warbler, reed buntings, blackbird, song
thrush, goldfinch, robin, wren, pied wagtail, chaffinch, all in
the space of about one hour well worth a visit - David Messenger
Cornmill Meadows 1 painted lady,
2 red admirals, many white legged damselflies esp north end, 2
little ringed plovers, Wake Valley Pond, Epping
Forest, plenty of territorial downy emeralds, 10+ emperors, 3
four-spot chasers seen
12-6-00 Cornmill Meadows. (4-7pm).
6 Redshanks, 1 Green Sandpiper, 12 Shelduck, 3 male + 1 female
teal. Fairly good numbers of Dragonflies and
damselflies (despite windy conditions) including - Broad-bodied
Chasers, 1 Black-tailed Skimmer, Hairy Dragonflies, Emperors (one
ovipositing female had the blue abdomen normally only shown by
males or some old females) and a single Southern Hawker. If
anyone is searching for dragonflies in windy conditions, try
finding a sunny pathway in the scrub to the east of the site -
this is how I found most of the above!
There was also a Painted Lady at Cornmill on June 10th - Roy
Woodward
I heard today via Phil (Vines) that there was a
Sandwich Tern on the East Warwick island
with the Common Terns. Oh yes there are now 2 pairs of
LBBG's breeding at Walth. One on the
Lockwood and at least one possibly 3 on the East Warwick - from
David Darrell-Lambert (also seen quite often in
Ponders End this summer am)
Trueloves, Sew, 1 tree pipit, 1 holly blue, Royal
Forest Hotel Chingford a pair of spot flies over the
road, bb chaser, bt skimmer and emp on pond, Fishers
Green, 1 bullfinch, brimstone, bt skimmer, bb chaser,
emp - Bill Craig and Bill Cutts
Parkside Farm, north Enfield, 1 clouded yellow,
3 painted ladies, Trent Park 20 small heath, 13
small coppers, Williams Wood lesser spot
woodpeckers just fledged (prob 5th pair in Trent Park) - Robert
Callf and Robin White
2 Clouded Yellows today 11.30 AM north end of Roding
Valley Meadows. One very ragged the other in good
condition - Steve Stuart.
Sat 10th June a clouded yellow seen Piercing
Hill Epping Forest by Neil Wilson
a site for immigrant
lepidoptera
Broxbourne Woods area
1 hairy dragonfly, also 2 four spot chasers, 8 black tailed
skimmers, 30+ large red damselfly, many azure, blue tailed dams,
3 broad bodied chasers, 3 emperors, 1 large skipper, 1 m brown,
pair of firecrests present since April feeding a minimum of 2
fledged young in the treetops - A.Mids
11-6-00 Dunlin - East
Warwick Res, Walthamstow Res in
General, 100+ Blue-tailed Damselfly, 4 Red-eyed Damselfly, Cornmill
Meadows 1 Painted Lady, 1 Brown Argus, 1 Large Red
Damselfly, 10+ Banded Demoiselle, 6 Hairy Dragonfly, 1
Broad-bodied Chaser, 1 Black-tailed Skimmer, lots of Blue-tailed,
Red-eyed, Common Blue and Azure Damselfly, Tottenham
Marsh 1 Pheasant calling, 2 Black-tailed Skimmers, 1
Emperor Dragonfly - David Darrell-Lambert
Sewardstone Marsh 2 sightings of little
owl, 1 lesser whitethroat in song - Bill Craig and Neil Wilson,
Knights Pits 1 singing nightingale in the managed habitat, a 2nd
singing lesser whitethroat, 1 foraging lapwing nearby - H.Bantock
A.Mids
10-6-00 The Volunteer/Honey Lane
area, Epping Forest, a clouded yellow flew north at 2.30, Warren
Wood 2 firecrests inc a singing male, 2 red admirals -
Barry Bishop and A.Mids
Yardley Hill Chingford, 1 bullfinch, 1 meadow brown, 25
c.blues, 2 small heaths, 5 burnet c moths, and hawking for
insects low over the meadow 5 swallows and 10 housemartins
9-6-00 Oystercatcher
south over Banbury Res at 08:06 hrs - David
Darrell-Lambert
Hall Marsh Scrape, 1
green sandpiper, 2 pairs gadwall with young. Also in the area -
all tern rafts have chicks, total of at least 14. Pochard with
young on the river between Bittern Watchpoint and Fishers Green
Lane - Joy Park
Trent Park west - first sighting of meadow
brown, good numbers of small heath, common blue and small copper,
1 red admiral - news from Robert Callf (Barry Weston)
Coppetts Wood, Finchley first large skipper, recently at
Ponders End Lake, a massive count of 31 common
terns using the rafts and island, a pair of ringed plovers and a
pair of ruddy ducks, Highgate Ponds a pair of
herring gulls displaying instead of the common terns - Tony
Clancy
8-6-00 Osier
Wood, Sewardstone, lagoons up to 8 black tailed skimmers
& on small lined pond 2 large red damsels & 4 common
blues - Brian Dawton, Rammey Marsh 3 common blue
butterflies and 5+ burnet companion moths, no hairy dragonfly,
white-legged damselfly or brown argus seen - A Mids
14.30. Hook Marsh Srape Lea Valley Park. now
still 1 wigeon but 6 barnacle geese Dave Messenger (message
board)
7-6-00 Holyfield, Fishers Green, a red-breasted goose
6-6-00 Holyfield, Fishers
Green, a red-breasted goose - Phil Vines
Highams Park, Epping Forest a hobby, and a large
red damselfly in his garden - Richard Cope
Rainham 1 painted lady, 1 singing grasshopper
warbler, several breeding redshank and lapwing, Grays
area - a long chalk bank with a population of graylings in 1999,
recently bulldozed flat - nice one - A.Mids
4-6-00 Coppetts Wood scrubland, Finchley, 1 brown argus, several common blues and burnet companion moths, Hampstead Heath 1 brimstone - Tony Clancy
3-6-00 Good views of
roding woodcock at Long Running, Epping Forest
(my first). Also 2 tree pipits and 1 female mandarin on the bomb
crater - Joy Park
WG Res a common scoter at 9.45am flew off north after 5
minutes - Phil Vines
Totteridge area (north/west London), 2 storks
flew fairly high and north/east at 8.40pm - Tony Clancy
Late this afternoon I went to Copped Hall
and photographed White-letter H pupae in the evening sun. I could
only find three pupae in the vegetation that I could reach - 97%
predation and fat baby Blue Tits I guess - John Stevens
2-6-00 Epping
Forest - Pole Hill, 3 slow worms, 1 c2 inches long.4
speckled wood butterflies, Connaught Water, 1
male mandarin, High Beech end of red path 1
singing lesser whitethroat, Chingford Plain 1
singing male Reed Bunting - Richard Cope
Yardley Hill pm 20 c blues, 2 brown argus, 2 small
heath, 5 burnet companion moths, 1 black-tailed skimmer, Copped
Hall 1 emperor dragonfly, 1 hobby, of 15 white-letter
hairstreak larvae on a wych elm 10 had pupated, 2 large larvae, 3
small larvae parasitised, singing firecrest Warren Wood - Mids
and Clancy
North Enfield Vicarage Farm/Trent Park area 1
wall brown, 1 painted lady, regular hobby sightings, Forty Hall
marsh tits carrying food to a nest hole in an ash, White Webbs
area 32 stock doves - Robert Callf and Robin White
May 2000
31-5-00 Chingford Plain 1 hobby, several meadow pipits, no tree pipits, KGV last Monday 1 lrp, 2 shelduck - Ken Murray, Central London Natural History Museum/V+A a hobby hawking for insects - Mike Cotton
29-5-00 Holyfield
area. Sykes wagtail in usual place close to
fishing club, calling from top of fourth bush along the fence at
9.00am. - Martin Shepherd
KGV 8.20am one oystercatcher -
Phil Vines, Yardley Hill pair of firecrests,
pair of bullfinch, c10 c blues, 5 burnet companion moths - A.Mids
28-5-00 I went to Long Running, Epping Forest, at dusk and had 4 flyovers by woodcock, one of which perched on the top of an old dead tree
27-5-00 Yardley Hill, Epping
Forest, Chingford area, 1.30pm, a pair of firecrests calling, in
song and gathering food at 379959, north-west of hill crown at
the bottom of the hill, Yates Meadow nearby - a pair of skylarks
and 2 pairs of meadow pipits, 3 c blues and a small copper at
Lippitts Hill - Andrew Middleton
Recent sightings at Trent Park/Vicarage Farm 1
wall brown again, 17 small heaths, several small coppers, 1 c
blue - Callf, White, Weston
Ponders End Lake last week, a pair of ringed
plovers, 3 common terns incubating on the island, a pair of ruddy
ducks, last Monday 1-3pm seven hobby viewed above woods from
Cornmill- Phil Vines
Connaught Water a mandarin with 10 ducklings,
May 16th 4 singing tree pipits Jacks Hill/Long Running
area, Epping Forest, early am - Tony Baumber
Fairlop Essex, in the last week grasshopper
warbler reeling and tree pipit - Alan Bell
26/05/00 Cornmill, am., 1 dunlin. It has a damaged leg and was struggling to feed - Alex McKechnie.
25-5-00 a songbird survey at Sewardstone Marsh, red list 1 skylark, 4 song thrushes, 1 linnet, 2 bullfinch, 2 reed buntings, amber list 1 green woodpecker, 4 dunnocks, 2 nightingales, 17 blackbirds, a few starlings by Godwin Close, a pair of goldfinch, warblers - 10 sedge, 10 whitethroat, 9 garden, 6 blackcap, 5 willow, 4 reed, 1 chiffchaff, others of interest - 1 treecreeper, 18 wrens, a pair of great spots, also a little owl on the Sewardstone Road at 4am
24-5-00 Copped Hall 1 nightingale, white-letter hairstreak larvae on a wych elm-out of c25 half have turned brown and half are still green, 2 have pupated, one has spun a girdle prior to pupation, and 2 are still rather small and green, pair of firecrests Warren Wood, KGV Res 1 hobby - Andrew Middleton
22-5-00 Vicarage Farm, Trent Park area, Enfield, 1 hobby and a wall brown - Robert Callf
21-5-00 Walthamstow Res Lockwood Whimbrel north at 11:51 hrs just after the big downpour. West Warwick 2 male Ruddy Duck and no sign of the Red-necked Grebe! 2 Swallows moved north and a pair of Greater Spotted Woodpeckers with young. East Warwick adult White-fronted Goose on the island at 07:30 hrs had gone by 09:45 hrs, 400+ Swifts over the whole site - David Lambert
20-5-00 Amwell GPs 4 hobbies over the GPs c
11.30 am. Showing well for over an hour - Andrew
Hardacre
Cornmill Meadows. - Male Whinchat, along
fence to north of hide at c14.15. Also 7 Shelduck, 40-50 Hairy
Dragonflies, 2 Broad-bodied Chasers and about 50 Red-eyed
Damselflies (mostly immatures, without red eyes) - Roy Woodward.
KGV Res 9.30am 2 black necked grebes on the south basin
- Phil Vines
Mott Street Sew Trueloves 1 tree pipit singing, 3 small
coppers, 1 small heath - am
18-5-00 Ponders End lake, Picketts Lock, 3 ringed plovers, 2 pairs of little grebes, a min of 25 common terns on the rafts and island, 3 pairs of reed buntings, 6 species of warbler inc lesser white and garden, KGV Res am c500 swifts - Andrew Middleton
17-5-00 Hooks Marsh scrape 1 wigeon and 2 barnacle geese - D.Messenger
Lee Valley Regional Park Bird Report for March 2000
16-5-00 LONDON S/PL R.N.GREBE WALTHAMSTOW ON WEST WARWICK RESV. BirdNet
15-5-00 Mass emergence of Downy Emerald at Wake
Pond, Epping Forest today, also I found a Hairy
Dragonfly exuvia there - John Stevens
Late news for 13-5-00, a marsh harrier over Sewardstone
Marsh on Saturday - Barry Bishop
14-5-00 Walthamstow Reservoirs
06:00 to 13:30, Nesting Common Terns so far 34 pairs, Cormorants
252 pairs highest ever total!, Sedge Warblers 36 singing, Reed
Warblers 26 singing, Whitethroat 11 singing, Grey-lag 5 broods, Lockwood
1 pair Gadwall, West Warwick 7 Swallows north at
10:30 hrs, Red-necked Grebe still present, male Ruddy Duck, one
Little Grebe, Also first Blue-tailed and Red-eyed Dams seen -
David Lambert
Sew Marsh at dusk 2 singing nightingales, a tawny owl
carrying prey, a pair of hobby - Andrew Middleton
Fairlop, Essex, singing
recently - 1 tree pipit, 1 gropper, 2 y wags, also 30 corn
buntings present - Alan Bell
RUDDY SHELDUCK LEA VALLEY CP ON FISHER'S
GREEN GOOSE FIELD. BN 9:30*LONDON S/PL R.N.GREBE WALTHAMSTOW
ON WEST WARWICK RESV 10:05. BirdNet
13-5-00 Cornmill
Meadows, 12.30-14.30. Not much in the way of birds (8
Shelduck) but at least 8 Hairy Dragonflies, 1 Broad-bodied
Chaser, 2 Red-eyed Damselflies also Banded Dems, Large Red,
Azure, Common Blue & Blue-tailed Damselflies. Fishers
Green, Cheshunt GP's and Hall Marsh, 14.45-17.15. 2
Red-legged Partridges in the ploughed field over the road from
the Goose Field (White-fronted Goose on the Goose Field). Male
Ruddy Duck in front of the Bittern Watchpoint. Male Wigeon on
Hall Marsh. Also at least 3 Hairy Dragonflies on the Old River
Lee to the north of the Bittern Watchpoint and one around the
Horse Paddocks at Sewardstone Marsh (at about 18.00). - Roy
Woodward
.11:30AM*LONDON S/PL R.N.GREBE WALTHAMSTOW
ON WEST WARWICK RESV. BirdNet
Red-necked Grebe at Walthamstow Res on
West Warwick. also one male Ruddy Duck
KGV and Sew
At first light, two Hobbies seen at entrance to car park.
Prolonged views of one bird. Three Common Terns, at least two male
Black Redstarts singing from Johnson's factory area (from KGV). Seven Linnets on
the way to Sewardstone. On the old MOD bridge, close views of an
Arctic Tern, accompanied by soft song from Nightingale in west
section of Knight's pits. On the way back, three Hobbies seen over
the marsh - Helen Bantock
KGV evening 1 black tern - Alan Bell
12-5-00
Holyfield, Fishers Green 7 black terns mostly on the
boats, 1 c.sand on the weir, Warlies Park, Upshire 2 hobbies -
Mike Cotton, Epping Forest Warren Wood
firecrests, Copped Hall estimate of 100+ well grown white-letter
hairstreak larvae on one wych elm, 1 tree pipit Trueloves off
Mott Street, no sign of the first downy emeralds at Wake Valley
Pond - sev obs
KGV Res am black terns building to 22 still at 12 noon -
Phil Vines, then 13 around 2pm various people, 5-7.30pm max 16
black terns, 1 y wag, 8 c sands, reed bunting and lesser
whitethroat west of causeway, 10 linnets - Andrew Middleton
Large red damselflies 10-20 in
number 12/5/00 Rammey Marsh Lake scrape, some
mating others teneral also azure & blue tailed - Brian Dawton
11-05-00 Hall
Marsh Drake Garganey 6:30pm Chris Page
KGV Res pm1 black tern, 1 goldeneye, 1
greenshank on Sew marsh - Robert Callf
10-5-00 Sewardstone general - 2 hobbies, several shelduck, territories on the farmland - c5 skylark, 2 meadow pipits and 1 yellowhammer , 2 great spot and 1 green wood in the osiers - various people, Warren Wood 2 singing firecrests heard - Tony Gray, KGV dusk 1 hobbyhawk
9-5-00 KGV (10.50-12.50, S basin
only) Two black terns north at 11.50, 6 common
terns, 4 common sands, female goldeneye, lesser whitethroat
singing along riverside by Freightways depot, two linnets,
juvenile pied wagtail - Sean Huggins
Epping Copped Hall 2 nightingales, 1 turtle
dove, hobby, 20 well grown white-letter hairstreak larvae seen on
one wych elm, Warren Wood firecrest - Andrew Middleton
8-5-00 KGV Res am, 1 black tern north, 1
redshank, 2 y wags, 5 c sands
Sew Marsh 1 little owl, fem flava wagtail KGV
Res on Sat - Ken Murray
Chase Side area 1 calling female brambling, Trent Park
Lower lake 1 nightingale, 1 sedge w, 5 y wags - Robert Callf
7-5-00 Holyfield goosefield, 1 wood sandpiper
pm - Phil Vines
One Wood Sandpiper on the goose field
flew in at 20:30hrs calling, but was very wary. Also, Ian
Kendal told me of a 1st summer Little Gull on Holyfield Lake at
the same time, but I couldn't relocate it - Paul French
Brent Res, 5 Black Terns, 2 Greenshank, 9 Common Sands,
1 LRP, 1 Lapwing - Andrew Self
KGV Res 6am 1 black tern, 2 c sands(am/hb), 2
arctic skuas north/east at 10.23am, adult pale and dark
phase with arctic tail projections (only Phil's 2nd valley
sighting), 5 black terns then 18 from 11am, 1 little tern, 1
dunlin past, 3 c sands, goldeneye - Phil Vines, Brimsdown singing
black redstart, pm 21 black terns - Tony Clancy
KGV Res pm 70 black terns in total, 18 from 2.50
to 4pm, 26 flew off n/e at 4.40pm, 7 flew n/e at 4.55pm, 26
arrived at 5.45 and 2 little terns flew off n/e(A Mids), 6 black
terns flew n/e at 6.05pm, 32 were present from 7pm of which 10
flew n/e at 7.15pm. 8 c sands, 6+ shelduck, 1 ringed plover, 2
hobbies hawking south basin from 8.20pm - A Middleton, R Callf, R
Woodward
Brox GPs 2 winter plumage bar-tailed godwits
flew north 4.30pm, 2 y wags - Roy Woodward
Trent Park Lower Lake a nightingale singing
4.20am Sat, pair of lesser spots, Fri 1 whinchat, Sat 1 crossbill
over Park Farm, today 1 spotted flycatcher Shaw's Wood and a
turtle dove north - Robert Callf and Robin White
Amwell GPs am, 2 black terns, no sign of
Temminck's stint - Andrew Hardacre
Hairy Dragonfly saw my first Hairy dragonfly of
the season today. Interestingly, it was near Fishers Green on the
shallow flood relief channel that runs south from the weir on
Holyfield Lake. I have never seen one there before. John Stevens
6-5-00 18.30. Fishers Green;
Goose Field- 2 Wood Sandpipers, Grebe Hide- Pair of Ruddy
Ducks. - Roy Woodward.
Fisher's Green: 2 Wood Sandpipers on the goose field
pool by the Sailing Club at 2:00 pm. Ian Kendall directed me to them - Chris Page
Banbury Res. 07:45 to 08:15am, 10 Arctic Terns north in
two groups of five at 07:45 and 8:00, 10+Common Terns, 1 Little
Grebe, 6 Jackdaws west, 4 Collard Dove west, 100+ Swallows west
in small groups every few minutes, 1 Cuckoo north, Walthamstow
8:15 to 09:45, Lockwood Common Sandpiper, 50 Swifts, 1 House
Martin west, 100+ Swallows west, East Warwick Turtle Dove in bush
just north of the res, West Warwick, Red-necked Grebe still
present in full summer plumage, Amwell GP 10:45
to 11:35 2 Ringed Plovers, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 1 Tem.
Stint, 2 Hobbys feeding, 4 Sparrowhawks, 1 Buzzard north at 11:15
- David Lambert
KGV Res at dusk 8.45pm, 2 hobbies hawking insects along
the south edge, c15 black terns, 1 whimbrel over calling - AM
KGV Res from 1.15pm 3 little gulls and 10 black terns
south basin - Phil Vines
WG Res 8.15am a grey plover in summer plumage - Phil
Vines
Sew Marsh 6-7am 3 nightingale territories, 2
bar-tailed godwits on the marsh , 1 whimbrel east - Andrew
Middleton
Evening KGV 10 black terns and a whimbrel on Sewardstone
Marsh - Ken Murray
KGV Res am, black terns - north basin, 5 from
7.15am, 9 flew north-east at 7.40am leaving 1, then 5 south basin
from 9am until 11am at least, 12 unidentified sterna
terns flew north 7.45am with a little tern, a mixed flock of 5
arctics and c terns flew north 9.35am, 1 dunlin flew east, 3
little gulls ad with pink wash, 1st and 2nd summer on south basin
from 9am and still at 11am (earlier on the WG Res) with the black
terns, 1 c sand, 1 redshank, 9 y wags, 1 hobby s/e corner of
south basin flew east over forest - Helen Bantock, Martin
Shepherd, Andrew Middleton, Barry Bishop
Fishers Green sailing club road, Sykes wagtail
east of road - Mike Cotton
09:08 *HERTS TEMMINCK'S STINT AMWELL GP &
2 BLK TERNS. 2 HOBBIES ,11:35 ALSO C.BUZZARD - Birdnet
09:48 *LONDON S/PL R.N.GREBE WALTHAMSTOW ON
W.WARWICK RESV 9:30 & 10 ARCTIC TERNS THRU BY 8AM-BirdNet
5-5-00 Amwell GP 1 Temmincks Stint - G J
White
Sew Marsh Tony Clancy reports a possible short-toed lark
which flew close by and low overhead calling at 3.30pm, then flew
beyond the hedge towards the horse paddocks but could not be
located on the ground, 2 bar-tailed godwits on the marsh
Cornmill: 6:00pm 3
Greenshanks in the new flooded area - Chris Page
Temminck's stint at Amwell GP [from 14.30
onwards? Still present at 19.00] from Observation
Point, also 2 RPs, 1 LRP and 2 redshanks. Also at
Amwell Black swan! Black tern at Nazeing
sailing club. A dozen or so swifts overhead - Andrew
Hardacre.
4-5-00 KGV: 11.1OAM-2.30PM. A male
blue-headed wag on the causeway, 14 yellow wags, pair of black
redstarts, greenshank north, 5 common sands, 100+ swifts, female
goldeneye, two adult lesser black backs, two linnets, c 6 common
terns. SEWARDSTONE MARSH:
two bar-tailed godwits in non breeding plumage (prob male and
female), viewed from reservoir bank - Sean Huggins, the
third male barwit took off and joined a flock of 6(?) barwits
which flew over - Mike Cotton
Near Theydon Bois (Epping Forest area), 3
buzzards reported today being harrassed by 'smaller' crows
3-5-00 Sew Marsh 3 bar-tailed godwits still
at mid-day, 2 nightingales - A.Middleton, Bill Cutts
KGV Res am, 1 arctic north, 2 whimbrel east -
Phil Vines, another whimbrel north reported earlier, also 10+ y
wags, 3 redshank, 3 c sands, 75+ swifts, 50 swallows, 1 male
black redstart
2-5-00 KGV Res 9am 6 arctic terns north -
Phil Vines, then 1 arctic briefly around 9.30am, 1 little tern
feeding over the south basin from 10-10.20am - Vines and
Middleton, then 1 little tern by the causeway at 11.20am before
flying off high to the north, 1 dunlin, 1 c sand, 3 y wags -
Vines, Middleton and Gray
Sew Marsh am 1
bar-tailed godwit - Ken Murray, then 6 bar tailed godwits & 2
unidentified shelduck type birds at 5pm on the pool - Brian
Dawton, dusk 2 nightingales singing Knights Pits
2-5-00 Brent Res, Whimbrel &
Bar-tailed Godwit at 12.30 pm (Roy Beddard)
1-5-00 General 1 tree
pipit singing Copped Hall Green area 424015 on 29th April, single
nightingale Connaught Water 24th and 27th of April, no
nightingale at Yardley Hill yet this year, 1 sprawk - Tony
Baumber
Rammey Marsh. 2.35pm. Nightingale singing from
scrub on east side just off tow path 50 yards south of fishing
club. Fishers Green/Holyfield. Drake
garganey in front of Grebe Hide 3.35pm. Seemed very
relaxed. Was making rattling noise, and occasionally
raising wings to threaten male mallards with little effect.
Somebody suggested that this may be the same bird that's been in
the valley for some time - primarily at Amwell - Martin Shepherd
Brent Res: 3
Whimbrel, 2 Bar-tailed Godwits, 1 Little Tern, 3 Garden Warblers,
2 Lesser Whitethroats (Andrew Self).
Grey Plover, Turtle dove, Hobby and Lesser White-fronted
Goose at Amwell. 3 Nightingales, 2 Groppers at Rye
Meads - Graham White
KGV Res from 9.10 am 1 black tern, then 2 - Phil
Vines
Sew Marsh bar-tailed godwit in summer plumage at
8.30am - Phil Vines, and 5pm, also Sew LVP farmland c5 singing
skylarks, 2+ pairs of lapwing- Andrew Middleton
Epping Forest, single singing tree pipits
Trueloves off Mott Street (also 5 bullfinch territories along the
green lane here), and Deershelter Plain, a pair Sunshine Plain,
none seen on Long Running, firecrests Warren Wood - Andrew
Middleton
Singing nightingales 3 Rye Meads, 2 or 3
Sewardstone, 1 Rammey Marsh, 8+ Fishers Green, 2 or 3 Copped
Hall, 1 Connaught Water, 1 Trent Park, 2 Berwick Ponds (any
more?)
April 2000
30-4-00 Fisher's Green,
Holyfield area. The sykes
wagtail seen at 2.00pm catching flies from fence running up to
the farm east of sailing club road - Martin Shepherd
Sewardstone Marsh - Knights Pits, 9.30am. Turtle Dove
purring from scrub on the north east edge of the larger lake. Two
green sandpipers seen around the pools on the ex-MOD land by
Brian Dawton. Sewardstone/M25...two little
ringed plovers on the mud - Martin Shepherd
Sew Marsh 8.30pm a
summer-plumaged bar-tailed godwit on the marsh, a brood of
mallard - Andrew Middleton
KGV Res 9am a little tern flying by the causeway - Phil
Vines
Little tern over north and south basin until around 11am at
least, 3 sandwich terns south around 10am, 8 waders flew north
looked llike sanderling, 2 dunlin on bank, 1 c sand, 1 redshank,
50+ swifts, 1 bar-headed goose - Andrew Middleton, Steve Connor,
Terry Smith - Terry reports c8 singing nightingales Fishers
Green sub-station recently
(2 sandwich terns seen earlier north in the valley - Ian or Alan
Dearing - location unknown)
KGV pm 1 hobby and a y wag - Steve Connor
Trent Park, Enfield 1 hobby, 3 lesser spots, 1
nightingale, 1 tawny owl - Robert Callf
29-4-00 Brent
Res: 13 Bar-tailed Godwits at dawn, Grey Plover and LRP
flew over; Hobby, 3 Swifts, Yellow Wagtail, Garden Warbler and 8
species of butterfly - Andrew Self
Sewardstone
8.45-11.30 am Five species of Butterfly:
Orange tip, Speckled wood, Small white, Small tortoiseshell,
Peacock. Lesser whitethroat, Whitethroat, Blackcap,Garden
warbler, Song thrush, Reed bunting, Sedge and Reed warbler,
Cuckoo. Good views of Nightingale on the road , half way to
Knight's pits. Kestrel and Sparrowhawk. KGV North basin: Numerous
Swifts, 20 Sand martins, 2 Wheatear and a pair of Yellow wagtails
- Helen Bantock
KGV Res 9.00am.
Three bar tailed godwits, half way down south basin west
side. One in summer plumage and the other two grey
birds. Flew over to the east side but I could not relocate
them - Martin Shepherd, .12.25 3
bar-tailed godwits flew from the KGV to the WG Res, 2 wheatear, 7
y wags, 1 rock pipit, several c sands- Tony Clancy and 3
bar-tailed godwits back on the south end of the KGV Res at 4pm -
Phil Vines
28-4-00 Sewardstone
Marsh 3 singing nightingales Knights Pits, with one in
the area managed for this species during the winter just gone,
several garden, sedge, reed and willow warblers, chiffchaff,
blackcap, whitethroat and lesser whitethroat, 2 shelduck on the
marsh, 2 cuckoos, KGV Res am 4 wheatear, c10
yellow wagtails, 4 c.sands, 2 lrps, 1 green sand, 2 redshank, 50
swifts, also 30 swallows pm, house and sand martins, 1 hobby
north end, 1 singing black redstart west of causeway in
factories, 4 c.terns, 2 little grebes, 6 shelduck, singing reed
bunting west of causeway, plus one on bank, 1 meadow pipit, 40
terns at dusk all seemed to be commons - Andrew Middleton (a
mouse in my bedroom early am was new for the site), Nicholas
Green, Phil, Vines, Richard Cope
KGV Res pm 15 y wags inc a male blue-headed on
the causeway, also a white wag here, 1 goldeneye, 1 hobby south
basin WG Res 7 shelduck, 3 y wags, Ponders
End Lake 2 lrps, Trent Park Enfield, 1
nightingale still in song, earliest ever Trent swift for Robert,
1 garden warbler - Robert Callf
Fairlop Essex, recent singing tree pipit,
spotted flycatcher report, red-breasted goose, buzzard flew over
- news from Alan Bell
Woodlark at Amwell yesterday (27th)
27-4-00 Woodlark
at Amwell, flying over calling to the east -
Graham White
Sewardstone 7-11
am Two
Nightingales .One in Knights pits, in newly cleared scrub. The
other a little further east and more tentative. Nothing heard in
the more usual site by the field.But there are a very
active pair of Blackcaps there. Many
Whitethroats (8 to 10 pairs). Almost as many Blackcaps. Sedge
warbler seen and heard in the scrub by the main marsh area.Also
Reed warblers further on.Willow warbler and Chiffchaff. Two
Cuckoos, one Sparrowhawk. At least two Song thrushes. 9 Swifts by
the north end of the N basin, with 4-6 Sand martins. KGV
South basin- by the causeway, a pair of Reed Buntings, and 2 or
3 pairs of Reed warblers in the field. A pair of Common Terns at
the south end and , later, three Arctic terns, calling to each
other - Helen Bantock (arctics gone by 4pm)
26-4-00 Walthamstow Res, from 08:15 hrs
to 09:30 hrs, over Low Maynard Swifts 50+, Swallows 50+, House
Martins 10+, Sand Martins 250+, Lockwood Wheatear 5 on the east
side only one male, Yellow Wagtail 7 on the east side, Gadwall a
pair flew south, also Black-headed Gull 7 immatures south, Great
Black-backed Gull 2 immatures south.
From 15:15 to 16:hrs, Red-necked Grebe on West Warwick in full
summer plumage! Gadwall a pair and one male on East Warwick,
Shoveler a female on East Warwick, Black-headed Gull four on the
East Warwick island, Common Terns lots all over the site about 20
birds - David Lambert
Fishers Green Bill Craig reports seeing an alpine swift
at 2.55pm not far from the car-park, with common swifts, before
it flew off north- 'larger than the common swifts, typical
narrow swift wings, white below', also Sykes wagtail east of
sailing club road, and 2 wheatears by the road.
Chingford Plain 2 wheatear, 5 skylarks inc 2 singing, a
pair of bullfinch north side - Andrew Middleton
21/22 Apr male blue-headed wag KGV - Ken Murray
S/PL R.N.GREBE WALTHAMSTOW ON
WEST WARWICK RESV - BirdNet
25-4-00 KGV 12 y wags, 2 white wags, 1 c sand
- Ken Murray
Trent Park, Enfield 1 hobby William's
Wood, nightingale still singing by Lower Lake/Ride Wood, 1 lesser
whitethroat - Robert Callf and Robin White
Fishers Green 1 white-fronted goose from the sailing
club road - Mike Cotton/Phil Vines
24-4-00 Brent Res Osprey flew N at 1pm
(Jan-Paul Charteris), also Wheatear, Common Sandpiper and 3
Swifts + a Brimstone.- Andrew Self
Fishers Green Syke's beema type yellow wagtail
in same place as last year - fence post east of sailing club
road, 2 nightingales by sub-station, 1 lesser whitethroat
reported, 1 white-fronted goose, 1 Egyptian goose, 1 ruddy
shelduck, 2 barnacle geese - Bill Cutts and Bill Craig
Amwell GP: several Swifts, 1 Garden Warbler, 25+ Sedge
Warbler, 3 pr LRP, Garganey, Common Sandp, pr Redshank. Rye
Meads (HMWT NR): 2 Nightingales, Turtle Dove, 13 Snipe,
pr Redshank, 3 pair Lapwing, Grasshopper Warbler. King's
Mead NR: 2 Wheatear - Graham White
KGV Res am 20 swifts early am, c5 swallows and
housemartins, sand martins carrying nesting material into
drainage holes, 6 y.wags, 2 c.sands, 2 shelduck, 7 c.terns,
one singing skylark east of causeway, 1 pheasant-a new
species for the causeway? Sew Marsh 2 singing
nightingales Knights Pits + 1, one singing garden warbler, pair
of bullfinch, several reed warblers, 2 lrps and skylarks on the
marsh, total of 5 lesser whitethroats both sites - Andrew
Middleton
KGV pm 50+ swifts, Sew 1 turtle dove flew past - Tony Clancy
Holyfield area, a.m. Two bullfinches in woodland
close to car park at sailing club gate. Two weasels - one
close to national grid station, and the other crossing the road
close to fence where sykes wagtail seen. Sewardstone
Marsh, mid p.m. Speckled wood butterflies.
Grass snake swimming in Knights Pit. - Martin Shepherd
R.N.GREBE WALTHAMSTOW RESV ON
WEST WARWICK RESV - BirdNet
23-4-00 Fairlop Waters Three ruddy duck on
pond by the par 3 course, two little grebes, reed bunting,
skylarks, kestrels nesting in 'Big Als' - A Childs
Hooks Marsh - 2 Jays; 1 Common Sandpiper, Fisher's
Green - Swallow, H. Martin, Sand Martin and Swift (10+
of latter), at least 2 Reed Warblers singing at Bittern
Watchpoint, 1 Cuckoo, 3 Common Terns. In general, around Bowyer's
Water, Hooks Marsh and Fisher's Green, Whitethroats and Sedge
Warblers very common in song.Cheshunt Railway
Station - a pair of Bullfinches - Ian Elkins
Brent Reservoir -
recent news April 23rd - Red Kite flew over NW at 11.00; also 6
Swifts, 7 Sedge Warblers and 2 Reeds, 21 Blackcaps (large influx)
and 12 Whitethroats. April
22nd - 1 Redshank flew over, April
21st - 2 LRPs flew over - Andrew
Self
Rye Meads
1 Turtle Dove, 1 Grasshopper Warbler
( both first seen Thursday 20th ) also new in today 1 Reed Warbler and 1 Garden
Warbler, both birds previously ringed at Rye Meads - Gary Gardiner
Sew Marsh 1 lesser whitethroat, 1 reed warbler, Knights
Pits 2 singing nightingales - Alan and Bill Cutts
KGV. North basin, am. Calm
with thin cloud cover and sun breaking through. Four swifts
over causeway east side. Two wheatears. Four
yellow wagtails. Two common sandpipers. Green
sandpiper. One arctic tern. Common terns now more
vocal and are dispersing...three calling and fishing the
canal. Sewardstone Marsh. Lesser
whitethroat singing and
showing well in bushes to extreme south west very close to
footbridge - Martiin Shepherd
22-4-00 Warren Wood. Mating coal
tits. Muntjac. Connaught Water. Nightingale.
- Martin Shepherd
KGV Res am 2 swifts over causeway, 3 sandwich terns
south around 11am - Phil Vines
Lippitts Hill Trueloves, a singing lesser
whitethroat - am
21-4-00 Various locations. Alternatively
clear and overcast. Very windy by afternoon. Good mix
of common migrants seen. Sewardstone Marsh am...cuckoo,
nightingale at Knights Pits, whitethroats, willow warblers, sedge
warblers parachuting. Holyfield...blackcaps,
chiffchaff, redshanks and fox. Cornmill Meadows...two
little ringed plovers, snipe, still a few wigeon. KGV,
pm...Four wheatears, 12 yellow wagtails alternating
between Pattypool Mead, north east reservoir bank and
cattlefield. Loads of sand martins, four swallows, three
house martins. Two shelducks. Two common sandpipers, one
attempting to feed in a stony puddle on the track round the
reservoir on the north east side. Ten common terns over
south basin - Martin Shepherd
Sawbridgeworth Marsh 7.00 am 4
whitethroats, 1 cuckoo, big influxes of willow and sedge
warblers. Amwell GP 10.30am 3 common terns,
2 LRPs, 2 RPs, 2 swallows over, sedge warblers singing - Andrew
Hardacre
Fisher's Green reed warblers in front of Bittern
Watchpoint, 'lesser scaup' type Aythya hybrid from
bridge in channel nearby, 2 redshank on Goose Field Sew
Marsh 1 nightingale by Knight's Pits, one by Godwin
Close - various people
20-4-00 Walthamstow complex - Red-necked
Grebe on the West Warwick in full summer plumage, lovely!. Reed
and Sedge Warbler between the Warwicks and one Whitethroat.
Female Wheatear on the west bank of the East Wwarwick and two
more on the east side of the lockwood, just north of the concrete
building.. One pair of Ruddy Ducks on the East Warwick plus a
pair of Lesser Black-backed Gulls possibly the returning pair..
One Common Sandpiper at the south end of the Lockwood. Two White
Wagtails with 3 Pied and two Yellows on the east bank half way
along..At least 6 Common Terns feeding all over the site with
around 300 Sand Martins and 100 House Martins.. 21 Common Terns
on Banbury and one Great Black-backed Gull. - David Lambert
Sew Marsh early am 1 nightingale Knight's Pits, 1 cuckoo
General 19.4.00
Silvermeade near Broxbourne 1 male cuckoo calling and showing
well for half an hour before being chased off by a magpie.
2 sedge warblers and 1 reed bunting
in reeds at the southern tip of the site. 19.4.00 Stanstead Lakes 2 common terns. 15.4.00 Nazeing Meads middle lake 5 common
terns Dobbs Weir 2 grey
wagtails present most days over the last three weeks - Paul
Hudson
19-4-00 a hobby seen over Epping Forest by Tony Baumber,
Holyfield a pair of herons with young in nest, 2 brimstones
nearby, 2 well grown grt crested grbs last week - from John and
Margaret Fitzpatrick
Lots of interesting stuff on your
board at the moment but not much of it is reaching Bishops
Stortford - still no willow warblers locally - just 2 odd
swallows and not a martin or cuckoo to be seen - Andrew Hardacre
LONDON S/PL R.N.GREBE WALTHAMSTOW ON WEST WARWICK
RESV 6PM - BirdNet
5 new photos posted - lesser scaup, 2 sprawks, ivory gull and Siberian thrush - Phil Vines, Tony Clancy, Neil Wilson and Andrew Hardacre.
19-4-00 Ponders End Lake Six Common Terns and
2 (a pair?) LRP's at Ponders End lake this afternoon - John
Stevens
(A damselfly exuvium seen at Cornmill today - Terry Smith)
Fisher's Green mid-day whimbrel on goose field
also redshank, Syke's beema type wagtail in same place
as last year - fence post east of sailing club road and 2
wheatears here, 3 nightingales Elec sub-station area, garden
warbler, reed warbler in front of Bittern Watchpoint and 2
cuckoos here - Terry Smith, Connor, Cutts, Craig, Vines,
Middleton, Cotton, 2 firecrests Warren Wood, Epping Forest
Sub-station 9pm 3 singing nightingales plus 1,
and a tawny owl flew over - Steve Connor
A singing nightingale Trent Park Ride Wood by
Lower Lake, also sedge and cuckoo here - Robert
Callf
Walthamstow Marsh south 5pm ring ouzel (reported
at 3pm) still east of boardwalk in fenced short cropped field by
railway, north end - several observers, then lesser whitethroat
and common sand reported here later, also grasshopper warbler
reported am north end of north marsh near Coppermill Lane
Sewardstone Marsh. 6.50-7.20am. Warm
and overcast after rain. Cuckoo, nightingale (singing in short
bursts from scrub on east side close to road.) Also
sparrowhawk, three whitethroats, a couple of sedge warblers, and
loads of willow warblers. Also movement of singing
chiffchaffs through riverside willows, two common terns high
flying south towards KGV, two kingfishers on the river, four
great spotted woodpeckers, and two green woodpeckers. - Martin
Shepherd
Sew male redstart south side near KGV am - Ken Murray (not seen
again pm)
Epping Forest general Pole Hill
Area: Sparrowhawk 4, Blackcap 7, Chiffchaff 2, Willow Warbler
2, Swallow 2 over, Council nursery area: Chiffchaff 1 also
Wood anemone and bluebells out in flower. Yardley Hill: Blackcap
2, Willow Warbler 2, Chiffchaff 2, Yate’s Meadow area:
Meadow pipit 4, Stock Dove 1 flew over, Blackcap 2, Willow
warbler 2, Whitethroat 1 singing male, Gilwell Park: Swallow 1
over, Meadow pipit 1 over, Carrolls farm pond and surrounding
area (inc. part of fernhills): Blackcap 3, Chiffchaff 5, Willow
warbler 3, Stock dove 1 displaying. Trueloves: Stockdove 5 flew
over, Willow warbler 2, Blackcap 1pair, Chiffchaff 1, Lippitts
Hill: Blackcap 1 , Chiffchaff 1. Red path nr Connaught waters:
Common tern two flew low over calling, blackcap 2 males 1 female,
Chiffchaff 1.Connaught waters: Pochard 2 males 1 female, Mandarin
1 male, willow warbler 1. Chingford Plains: Willow warbler 3,
Chiffchaff 1, Sand martin one flew over, Skylark one singing,
meadow pipit 2 , Tree pipit 1 at
eastern end of plain, calling and
flying about to the south of the east west ditch.Butterflies
included: 26 peacock, 5 comma, 2 white sp, 4 Brimstone, 4 small
Tortoiseshell. - Richard Cope
18-4-00 Amwell - Cuckoo,
Sedge Warbler, Common Tern, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff, Ringed
and Little Ringed Plover - Herts Bird Club
Fisher's Green 1 redshank, breeding lapwing - Mike
Cotton
Sew Marsh am, 2 redshank, 1 lapwing, 1 skylark, 3
whitethroats, 1 sedge warbler, Copped Hall area
1 nightingale, 2 whitethroats - Andrew Middleton
17-4-00 Rye Meads RGroup 2 long-eared owls -
Gary Gardiner
Fisher's Green 1 singing nightingale - Mike Cotton
(grasshopper warbler reported on Fri 14th not seen today)
KGV 15+ c terns and 1 green sand 5pm south end
only, 2 yellow wags
16-4-00 King George V Res, early pm - 2
Little Gull, 19+ Common Tern, 1 Common and 2 Green Sand, 3m
Wheatear and 9+ Yellow Wags - Andy Massey
Amwell 1.15pm-3,30pm, Osprey one over at 1.45 -
initially quite low c.150ft, then headed north gaining height all
the time. On show c.10 minutes, Garganey - 1 male, 3 LRP, Ringed
Plover 2, Redshank 2, Sedge Warbler - several -
Anthony Dorman
Vicarage Farm, Enfield pm, a ring ouzel flew
calling from a hedge ('whinchat hedge') across a field and could
not be refound, also 2 fieldfares and a redwing, 2 bramblings in
Williams Wood - Robert Callf, and a garden warbler in Trent Park
- Robin White
Warren Wood, Epping Forest, 2 firecrests, Essex
Upland 1 buzzard, Sew Marsh mid-day 4 lurchers running amok -
Andrew Middleton, Helen Bantock
15-4-00 KGV Res 2-4pm, 2 drake scaup, 3
housemartins, 20 yellow wagtails, 3 redshank, 2 green sandpipers,
8 common terns, 2 wheatear, 20 meadow pipits, 1 lrp, 4 shelduck,
1 grey wagtail, 3 reed buntings, beware not to cross the causeway
without tripod for protection, vicious Canada geese breeeding -
Steve Connor, 5-8pm 16 c.terns - Andrew Middleton
KGV. From 3.00pm. Damp, cold and
windy. 30+ yellow wagtails with a group of 16 on west side
just north of causeway and one wheatear with them. Similar
number of meadow pipits. Several willow warblers singing from
canal hedgerow. Circa 15 chaffinches around reservoir banks
and similar number of linnets. Two grey wagtails, one white
wagtail and loads of pied. One green sandpiper at south end of
south basin plus three redshank. Six terns over south basin...no
scope with me but presume most were common. Six shelduck.
several hundred hirundines with house martin numbers well
up. 5 reed buntings, Sparrow hawk low over north basin
harried by sand martins. Cowslips in Pattypool Mead (south
Sewardstone Marsh.) - Martin Shepherd
The Lee Valley Regional Park Bird Report for February 2000
14-4-00 Trent Park area,
Enfield, a good passage of linnets and meadow pipits, 1 little
owl, 1 muntjac - Robert Callf, also a whimbrel at Aveley,
Rainham, and little to report from Cornmill am - Phil Vines
Waverley Hide, Fisher's Green, sedge warblers,
and one singing reed warbler - Bill Craig
13-4-00 KGV noon-3pm: 1
arctic and three common terns (S basin), 20+ yellow wags, 3
white wags, 3 grey wags, 20+ swallows, 12+ house martins,
100+ sand martins, 2 drake scaup, 6 goldeneye, common sand,
redshank, singing willow warbler west side, 30 meadow pipits, 10
chaffinches, 5 linnets, 4 reed buntings - Sean Huggins
am 2 drake scaup, single female merganser and
goosander - Phil Vines
Wanstead Flats - 14 skylarks
Fairlop, Essex, 9 y wags, a male blue-headed
wag, 1 common sandpiper, also 17+ wheatear earlier this week -
Alan Bell
I can recommend the Franklin's Gull
12-4-00 KGV am, 2 arctic terns
and 1 c.tern south basin, also 2 drake scaup, 18 y. wags, 2
wheatear, c30 goldeneye, 50 swallows 100+ sand martins, 2 house
martins, 3 reed buntings, 1 redshank - John Fitzpatrick and
Andrew Middleton
Seventy Acre Lake, Fisher's Green, female
Ferruginous duck seen again yesterday (11th, probably north end
reedbeds) - Tim Hill
S/PL R.N.GREBE WALTHAMSTOW
ON WEST WARWICK RESV & WHEATER No5 RESV. - BirdNet
11-4-00 KGV Res pm, 1st summer little gull south basin 4.40-620pm when it flew off north, 2 drake scaup (ad and 1st year), redshank, green sand, 7 c.terns, causeway - 6 yellow wags, wheatear, white wag, 35 pied wags, sedge warbler, lrp, c200 sand martins and swallows, also resting on the concrete wall, male black redstart and stock dove west side - Steve Connor
10-4-00 Vicarage Farm, Enfield,
a cuckoo seen briefly (Robert's
earliest previous record was 13-4-96 on Parkside Farm), also 3
single brimstones in Trent Park over the weekend for various
people - Robert Callf
KGV Res am 2 drake scaup north end of south basin - Phil
Vines
Sew Marsh, a pair of lapwings, 2 lrps 9th and
10th, 3 yellow wagtails today, also 6 species of duck here last
Tuesday, on Sat a sparrowhawk pinned a magpie to the ground in
Ken's garden, but the magpie's mate and other disturbance meant
the sparrowhawk didn't complete its kill - Ken Murray
9-4-00 Holyfield
area. 3.00pm. Sedge warbler singing hesitantly from
bramble scrub on river channel 200 yards up from bridge on path
to Grebe Hide - Martin Shepherd
KGV Res pm summer plumaged black-necked grebe south
basin, 1 fieldfare - G Croney?
Mid-day bn grebe and 2 wheatear north end - Tony Clancy, a friend
of Tony reports a singing lesser whitethroat on allotments in
Finchley today
2-5pm 1 arctic tern over south basin with 4 common terns - Andrew
Middleton, Phil Vines, Andy Massey
Also drake scaup north end of north basin, rock pipit causeway, 4
yellow wagtails, 1 white wagtail, 1 redshank, sand martins, a few
house martins and swallows, 5 goldeneye, 5 teal, 2 shelduck, 50?
tufted duck, c10 gadwall, 1 ruddy duck - Andrew Middleton
(kittiwake here last Wed Ken Murray)
KGV am. On the water, 1 male scaup and a summer
plumaged black necked grebe on south basin. Still many sand
martins and a couple of swallows overhead. As for passerines just
managed 1 yellow wagtail, 2 grey wagtails, 1 white wagtail
(on causeway) and a male black redstart in its favoured area
on fence on west side of north basin about 50 yards from
causeway - Alex McKechnie and Barry Bishop.
8-4-00 Enfield
Lock. 12.30pm. Sparrowhawk took collared dove from
willow on River Lea opposite end of my garden. Barely able
to fly up-river with prey because of weight and then landed in
garden on new estate with prey before flying off again after
being scared by workmen - Martin Shepherd
Nazeing GP area am single singing sedge and garden
warblers (seen and heard), several blackcaps - Helen Bantock
Cornmill am 12 snipe, water rail south meadow,
5+ lrps, 3+ redshank, displaying lapwing, 2 shelduck - several
observers
Sew Marsh am 2 lrps, several willow warblers and
blackcaps, Sew M25 1 ringed plover
6.45. Sewardstone Marsh. Four willow warblers
singing. One fieldfare which took off and flew high to the
east. Two chiffchaffs and three blackcaps also heard -
Martin Shepherd
KGV Res pm drake scaup south basin - Steve
Connor
A new set of pages on the dragonflies of Enfield Lock, Ponders End., Sewardstone and Chingford, and the wider area, includes a page of thumbnail dragonfly images, many of which were taken locally.
7/4/00 KGV early p.m. 1 drake
scaup on south basin, 2 wheatear, 1 black redstart, 2 grey
wagtail, 1 white wagtail, 100+ sand martin, 2+ green sandpiper, 1
redshank - Alex McKechnie.
KGV 6.30am, north basin. Two yellow
wagtails together on fence, west side, 'see-iping' loudly!
Two Shelduck - Martin Shepherd
KGV pm, 1 rock pipit, 1 tree pipit, 2 wheatears, 12 yellow
wagtails reported, 2 white wags, orange tip Sew, Cheshunt Lock
area willow warbler and 10+ blackcaps - Tony Clancy
KGV 4-7pm, 3 Scaup (2 Male) NE corner south basin, 2
Wheatear (pair) West side south, basin, 2 Swallows & 2 House
Martins with many Sand Martins East side. 1 Goosander (female)
north end north basin, 2 Little Ringed Plovers Stewardstone
Marsh, 2 Grey Wagtails(NE north basin & SE south basin), 3
Yellow & 2 White Wagtails with flock of Pied West side north
basin. Still good numbers Goldeneye. 3 Kestrels (2 Male) on fence
west side south basin, no sign of black redstarts! - Patrick Hart, late pm 2 drake scaup - Steve Connor
Cornmill (pm)
8 LRP's, 5 Redshank, also 3 Shelduck - Gary Gardiner
6-4-00 KGV.
North basin. 6.45-8.00am. Clear and
frosty. Significant passage of swallows...at least 50
birds...some dropping down on west and north perimeters to land
on barbed wire fencing. Approx 200 sand martins feeding low
in the middle of the water. Ten or so house martins going
north at height. Ten wheatears mainly on west side, of
which seven were males. Two female reed buntings on fence
plus small groups of meadow pipit - Martin Shepherd
Sewardstone general, Sew Marsh 2
lrps and 1 ringed plover, 1 displaying lapwing, 1 skylark, 2
shelduck, several swallows and 200+ sand martins (over KGV), 5+
skylarks Netherhall Farm and 10+ Sew LVP farmland + 40 linnets, 2
singing bullfinch Lippitts Hill area, Warren Wood,
just north of Copped Hall entrance, Epping Forest - a
singing firecrest this pm - Andrew Middleton
Long Running, Jack's Hill, Epping Forest, 6
sightings of roding woodcock, Woodford GC
bullfinch and singing willow warbler, recent lspots north of
Connaught Water and opposite Royal Forest Hotel - Tony Baumber
5-4-00 Pole Hill, Chingford, 1
common buzzard - Tony Baumber
KGV Res am, 1 commom tern, female red-breasted merganser
and drake scaup south basin, 2 yellow wagtails, 1 house martin,
several hundred sand martins, 14 wheatear by causeway, c12
swallows - Phil Vines
RUDDY SHELDUCK IN LEA VALLEY AT CORNMILL
MEADOWS 10:30 AT LST ALSO 2 LRPs & SISKIN, and S/PL
R.N.GREBE WALTHAMSTOW ON WEST WARWICK RESV+2 LRP
- BirdNet
4-3-00 Black-necked
Grebe, 5 Egyptian Geese and several Swallows at Amwell
today. Male Ring Ouzel at Telegraph Hill (north Herts)
- Graham White
KGV Res pm female red-breasted merganser and drake scaup
south basin, 1 yellow wagtail on causeway, 2 house martins, 30
goldeneye, 5 wheatear, c10 swallows - Robert Callf
KGV Res am, c15 wheatear, 1 white wagtail, 1 green
sandpiper, 2 adult male black redstarts west side, north basin
150 sand martins, c10 swallows, 1 house martin (missed the scaup
yet again)- Andrew Middleton
3-4-00 Fairlop, Essex, pm 7
wheatear, 23 swallows, 150 sand martins, 2 house martins, 2
yellow wagtails, red-breasted goose for 2nd week - Alan Bell
(also male merlin and more swallows seen earlier in the day),
KGV Res, south basin pm, 1 common tern, 20 swallows,
female merganser, 2 shelduck, 20 sand martins - Steve Connor
2-4-00 Rye
Meads 1 Long Eared Owl - RMRG/Paul Roper
Cornmill Meadows. Dunlin. Three
little ringed plover. Holyfield Weir
area. Two rooks on farmland with mixed corvid and pigeon
flock. White wagtail catching insects from Holyfield
Weir. Circa four willow warblers singing in scrubby wood
between National Grid and Holyfield Weir. Three little ringed
plover flew over the area - Martin Shepherd
1-4-00 Enfield Lock.
Blackcap 500 yds south of Swan and Pikepool, 8.00am KGV.
Reed bunting in meadows on east side. Several sand
martins. Redshank at southern end of southern basin.
Female Wheatear at north end of north basin by cattle field,
10.00am. Pattypool Mead (Sew Marsh)
Two lrp. Sparrowhawk flew over. Sewardstone
Marsh. Two singing blackcaps. Muntjac tracks, plus
those of possible mink - Martin Shepherd.
Rye Meads 1 House
Martin, 12 Swallows, 2 Wheatears, 11 Lapwing in Meadow
- RMRG/Paul Roper
Cornmill Meadows - singing Willow Warbler, near summ pl
Water Pipit, 2 LRP, Amwell - 1 LRP, Post
Wood, Ware - Hawfinch, sev singing Blackcaps - Andy
Massey
KGV Res 2 Swallows 15 Sand Martins 1
male Wheatear, Goldeneye 15,
Teal, Gadwall, Wigeon, Shoveler, T.duck, Coot, Shelduck,
Cormorant, C.Goose, M. Swan. Chiffchaffs
heard, no W warblers, Sew Marsh a singing
Skylark, Redshank and Lapwing - Helen Bantock
KGV Res 1 drake garganey, 3 white wagtails, Sew Marsh 2 lrps -
Tony Clancy
Andrew Middleton, London, UK acmiddleton@blueyonder.co.uk