Sun 30.9.01 Walthamstow Reservoirs  187 Shoveler, 2 Common Sandpiper, 6 Grey Wagtail, 11 Mistle Thrush.   Stephen Harris
relief channel off Lower Hall Lane, E4, 9-9.30am.  Green sandpiper and grey wagtail - Martin Shepherd
Lee Valley Park Hooks Marsh Lake 0945 2 swifts heading south very fast with small number of swallows and house martins Hall Marsh Scrape 1015 Female stonechat in front of Plover hide, five snipe Seventy Acres/Hooks Marsh lake 1045 hobby Jeff Butcher
Fairlop a.m.  6 Redwing, Common Sand, Swallows, House Martins.- Peter Hopkins.

Sat 29-9-01, Brimsdown from canal towpath, 6-6.30pm: whinchat, stonechat, and a third chat too far away to get a positive ID on - all in pasture by Mossop's Creek bridge.  common sandpiper heard on canal; female black redstart catching flies from one of the blue out-buildings.Martin Shepherd
Trent Park, green-veined white and 4 mandarin - R Callf

Wed 26-9-01 Milwall Dock / Clippers Quay / Mudchute area, Isle of Dogs   Monday 24th Tree Pipit, Reed Bunting, 12 Meadow Pipit, 4 Pied Wagtail, 2 Grey Wagtail.....all going west mid morning   Wednesday 26th Pair of Gadwall on dock all day.  First non-mallard dabbler I have seen in 7 months of working there - Howard Vaughan
Trent Park / Vicarage Farm, Osprey flew west over Upper Lake mobbed by crows 12.00-.13hrs, Barracks 1 stonechat, also 9 red-legged partridge, 2 red admiral, 3 green-veined whites - Robert Callf
Barking Bay, a hobby landed briefly on the mud-flats - A Middleton

Tue 25-9-01 Dagenham Chase pm - a lingering Whinchat on Traveller's Field. A female Red-crested Pochard reported (LH) recently from Belhus CP scrape - Ken Barrett
Tate Modern, male Peregrine at 5.50pm on the west side.Walthamstow Marsh, 2 Chiffchaffs, Coppermill FBs, 7 House Martins - David Darrell-Lambert
Brent Res: Osprey flew over SW at 5.25pm.   Andrew Self
Trent Park, 5 small copper, 12 comma - Robert Callf

Mon 24 Sep Maylands GC, crossbill flew over west, probable two redwing flying away - Colin Jupp
Garden, 12 Redwing south at 08:10hrs! Tate Modern - male and female Peregrine, male flew south west, 1 Willow Warbler and adult GBBG. 14:05 hrs no Sandwich Terns!!!David Darrell-Lambert
Sewardstone fem/imm redstart 10am east side of Knights Pits by cattle field, 50 siskin west near A1/Potters Bar area - A Middleton
Millenium Dome female peregrine and 25 sandwich tern downriver BirdCall
Valentines Pk. a.m. Single Redwing with Mistle Thrush and Starlings. Also a Robin seeing off  a Brown Rat, one of about 20 present around north end of lake. Red Admirals taking a liking to neighbours Eucalyptus tree which is in flower at the moment.  Peter Hopkins

Sun 23 Sep Cornmill Meadows, 2.00-2.20.  Hobby doing a lot of stooping and providing great views - M Shepherd
Banbury Res - 2 Com Sand, 8 L Grebes, 14 Siskin NE! Lockwood - 39 Shoveler, 1 Little Egret (from channel, 2 seen earlier they both flew up towards Wm Girling), 1 Wheatear, High May - 3 Shoveler, E Warwick - 96  Shoveler, No 4 - 9 Shoveler (147 for whole of reservoirs), Tottenham Marsh - 100+ House Martins
22  Sep Coppermill FB, 3 M Pipits, 4 House Martins, 4+ Yellow Wagtails, 21 Sep Tate Modern male Peregrine, 20 Sep Coppermill FB, 1 Hobby, 100 House Martins, 130 LBBGs - David Darrell-Lambert
Brimsdown 1 whinchat, Sewardstone Marsh 7 snipe - A Middleton
Thu 20-09-01 Harrow on the Hill, 3 Whinchat, 51 Goldfinch, 7 Meadow Pipit, 5 Swallow - John Palmer

Sat 22-9-01 4.30pm Cornmill Meadows 1 Little Stint on pool nearest road. Feeding and flying round with a snipe. Joy Park and others
Also at Cornmill, Along the Old River Lea in the woodland north of the Wake Hide a spotted flycatcher - Jeff Butcher
Barking Bay 9-11.30, juvenile peregrine, 3 sandwich terns, 95 shelduck, 2 dunlin, 1 small heath, 2 whinchat, 3 y wags - A Middleton

Fri 21-9-01 Vicarage Farm/Trent Park 9 red-legged partridge, 3 grey wags, 3 whinchat, 1 stonechat, 1 small copper, 1 small heath, 10 comma, 2 red ads, Covert way 2 red ads - R Callf and R White
KGV Res am from sailing club, juv little gull and arctic tern - Phil Vines
WG Res. channel, Russell Rd, 1 Little Egret and 5 Green sands. At the partially drained pool on Goosefields there is a Wood sandpiper -  Alex McKechnie
WG Res/Russell Road channel, little egret and 7 green sands pm - Tony Clancy

Thu 20-9-01 Grebe Hide, Lea Valley this afternoon.20.9.01. 1500hrs. White goose with dark wingtips in a flock of dark geese, probably Canadas flying on the far side of the lake. Thought at first it was a swan but definitely a goose. escaped Snowgoose? Also a stoat by the crossing bridge near the Bittern hide car park. Nigel Agar
Ally Pally 2 Wigeon, 1 Shoveler.   Tom Clarke
Copped Hall, 3 common buzzards together, 1 hobby, c5 kestrels, 6 mistle thrushes, 11 comma, 1 large falcon seen briefly- probable escape, c50 house martins and 25 swallows - Andrew Middelton
Vicarage Farm/Trent Park 3 scattered hobby sightings (2+2+3) including 3 together over Parkside Farm, 3 whinchat, 2 stonechat, 1 y wag and 3 grey wags, 3 bullfinch, kingfisher - R Callf and R White

Wed 19-9-01 17 Sep Walth Marsh - 3 House Martins south, Walth Res - 1 Common Sand, 8 Wigeon, 30+ Sand Martin, Tate Modern - 4 Grey-lag west, male Peregrine, Coppermill FB - 8 Yellow Wag, 18 Pied Wag, 18 Sep Walth Marsh - 3 House Martin north, 3 Chiffchaff, 1 juv Hobby Tate Modern - 2 GBBG, 19 Sep Walth Res - 100+ House Martins, 1 juv Hobby, Coppermill FB - 1 juv Hobby, 4 Yellow Wags NW, 16 Pied Wag NW, Tate Modern - adult female Peregrine - David Darrell-Lambert
You might be interested to know that there have been a pair of Little egrets feeding on the 'flood relief canal' to the north-east of Lockwood reservoir, since at least last Sunday (16th).   Since then I've observed them every evening except Monday - Laurence Bodini
Fairlop this evening:4 whinchats, 2 stonechats, sand martin & common sand - Alan Bell
Vicarage Farm/Trent Park immature turtle dove with 3 collared doves, stonechat, 2 whinchat, another snipe, kingfisher, Hadleigh Road Pumping Station hobby - R Callf and R White
At a location near Harlow (in Herts) 06:50 a Great Skua flew North. The reason for being at this site was that yesterday a Great Snipe was found here. It was not located this morning so appears to have moved elsewhere. A full description will be submitted by the finder to the Herts rare bird panel - anon.

Tue 18-9-01 There was a Skua sp today flying SE over Copped Hall, unfortunatly I am not used to seeing Skua's from the underside so by the time I identified it as a Skua it was a bit too far away to tell what type it was. Also today 100+ Chaffinch, 12+ Phylloscopus Warblers or to narrow it down Chiff/Willows, 9 Yellowhammers, 5 Redwings - Tony Gray
Tate Modern, adult male Peregrine at 12pm, Walthamstow Marsh, juv Hobby, 1 Whitethroat, 3+ Chiffchaffs, Walthamstow Res, 5+ House Martins, Hobby, 17  Sep 2001, Walthamstow Marsh, 3  House Martins south, 6+ Chiffchaffs, Walthamstow Res, 50+ Sand Martins, 8+ Wigeon, 1 Common Sandpiper - David Darrell-Lambert
Barking Bay am, whinchat, grey partridge heard, 3 oystercatchers, 1 little stint with 3 dunlin and 5+ ringed plover, 1 c. sand, c70 shelduck, c5 sandwich terns and 3 black terns with c20 common terns by the outfall, Woolwich Ferry, 3 black terns and several c terns in attendance, Thamesmead pm 3 black terns, several visits from up to 2 sandwich terns, 20 small waders probably dunlin flew upriver, 1 adult tern for an hour thought to have been a roseate tern flew off west - Andrew Middleton

Mon 17-9-01 Chingford Plain am, 1 marsh tit - Ken Murray
Vicarage Farm/Trent Park stonechat, whinchat, snipe, kingfisher, red admiral - R Callf and R White

Sun 16-9-01 WG Res channel, Russell Rd, wheatear, grey wagtail, black-necked grebe, green sand - H Bantock, B Craig
Fairlop a.m. 12 fieldfare, 5 Whinchat, 1 Stonechat, 40 Swallows, 2 Common Sands, 1 Little Owl. Valentines Pk. 10 Little Grebe - Peter Hopkins
Brent Res Little Gull, 1 juvenile for 5 minutes, Stonechat, Whinchat, Pied Fly, 2-300 hirundines. Andrew Self
Vicarage Farm stonechat, whinchat, Trent Park 4 small copper, 3 small heath, 6 comma - R Callf and R White
Harrow on the Hill, 3 Whinchat, 2 Spotted Flycatcher, 49 Goldfinch, 1 Swallow - John Palmer

Sat 15-9-01 East India Dock Basin The pair of Black Redstarts are still present and (fleetingly!) visible up to a couple of metres from the boundary wall overlooking the industrial wasteground - Ian Cater
Harrow on the Hill, 24 Yellow Wagtail, 39 Goldfinch, 8 Swallow, 120 Starling - John Palmer
Walthamstow Reservoirs   3 Little Egrets (2 on channel north of Lockwood, 1 on East Warwick), 71 Shoveler, 12 Ruddy Duck, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Little Gull.   Stephen Harris & Dan England
Vicarage Farm/Trent Park painted lady, 2 small coppers, whinchat, 30 linnets - R Callf and R White
WG Res channel, Russell Rd, 9 green sands, 1 greenshank, 1 snipe - Tony Clancy
Fairlop 1 Common Sand.  Valentines Park : 21 Mistle thrushes, 6 Little Grebes - Peter Hopkins

Fri 14-9-01 Ally Pally 1 Ring-necked Parakeet, Meadow Pipits, 2 Little Grebes, 3 Bullfinch - Tom Clarke
Vicarage Farm/Trent Park, little owl, 3 snipe, 8 mandarin., red admiral, 1 y wag, 13th whinchat, 11th hobby for RC, spot fly for RW - R Callf and R White
Brimsdown, 1 spotted flycatcher, 2 hobby - A Middleton
Fairlop. p.m. 4 Whinchat. Peter Hopkins

Thu 13-9-01 Valentines Park. p.m. 2 Kingfishers, 5 Grey Wagtails, 6 Little Grebe, 110 Coot, too many Rats - Peter Hopkins

Wed 12-9-01 Fairlop. p.m. 3 Whinchat, 12 Jackdaws. Peter Hopkins
I had a most strange sighting today, a male orange tip. I saw it down to 10 ft for maybe 2 minutes at Bishops Stortford nr St Mary's girls school. Maybe with all the sun this morning it decided it was spring. Wierd aint it - Nick Sampford
Kings Mead, 1 ringed plover, 5+ snipe, c8 little grebes, Amwell, hobby and black swan - Cutts, Craig and Middleton

Tue 11-9-01 Ally Pally 1 redstart - Tom Clarke
Fairlop, a.m. 1 Rook ( rare for site and pretty good for me ) ! -  Peter Hopkins.
Chingford Plain, am 3 hobby perched together on exposed dead oak bough against sky - Ken Murray
Harrow on the Hill, 12 Yellow Wagtail, 25 Goldfinch, 1 Meadow Pipit - John Palmer

East London Birders' Forum meeting - Tue 11th Sep at 8pm. Upstairs in the County Arms, Hale End Road, Highams Park, E4 - early drafts of several sections of the Essex Bird Report 2000 will be available for reading during the evening, so bring along your 2000 notebook.

Mon 10-9-01
WG/Russell Rd, 9 green sands, 1 greenshank - Bill Craig
Chingford Plain, juvenile red kite at 9.30am, buzzed by 3 hobby - Ken Murray
KGV Res from sailing club, 1 juvenile red-necked grebe, 1 hobby , 2 swifts, c5 c terns, 2 y wags, 1 juv little gull, 100+ house martins, 50 swallows, 25 sand martins, goldeneye - Phil Vines, Andrew Middleton
8/9/01: Chingford Marsh (fp off Russell Rd, E4) c12:30 - 13:30. Temminck's Stint 1 juv, Green Sandpiper 2, Little Egret 1, Kingfisher 2, Yellow Wagtail 1+. 9/9/01: Goose field c 07:00 - 08:30. Wheatear 1, escaped Saker 1. Hall Marsh 11:30 - Peregrine 1 flashed through, Lapwing 84, Snipe 2, Kingfisher 1. - Mike Dent
2 Yellow Wagtails, with horses rear of Fairlop - Steve Stuart
Vicarage Farm/Trent Park, wheatear, 1 y wag, 2 hobby - R Callf and R White

Sun 9-9-01 Coppetts Wood, Finchley, first spot fly of the year for Tony Clancy
East India Dock two Black Redstarts still about as well as the Peregrines.  Steve Allum
Harrow-on-the-Hill, 2 Wheatear, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 21 Goldfinch, 1 Meadow Pipit, 10 Pied Wagtail - John Palmer
Sewardstone/KGV 1 whinchat, c100 house martins, c10 swallow and sand martin, 5 yellow wags, hobby, 10 skylarks - A Middleton, H Bantock
Vicarage Farm/Trent Park, spot fly and whinchat - R Callf and R White

Sat 8-9-01 Fairlop, 5 whinchats, hobby and common sand - Alan Bell
8.25am. Brimsdown. Legett's Overhang.19 Linnets in vegetation below, then flew onto roof and fed there. Female Black Redstart feeding on insects on the side of the building. A male Wheatear on KGV fence. 11am, from the sailig club, KGV Res, 4 black terns and 3 little gulls - Helen Bantock
Vicarage Farm/Trent Park, 2 spot flies, 2 hobby - R Callf and R White
Rye Meads Friday evening and Saturday 7 & 8 Sept 01   1 Wryneck, 1 Little Egret, 7 Green Sandpipers, 1 LRP, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Hobby.   RMRG news from Paul Roper
juvenile Temminck's stint from 11am, in channel to SE of W Girling Res, viewable from bridge/public footpath, walk west from Russell Road (east of WG Res), also earlier c10 green sands, greenshank - Phil Vines
4.30pm, Temminck's stint still present, also a hobby - Helen Bantock and Tony Clancy
Waltham Abbey area, 6 redwing over this am, KGV recently, 1 goldeneye - Steve Connor
3 Sept 2001Tate Modern - female Peregrine. 4 Sept 2001, Coppermill Filter Beds - 100+ House Martins
Walth. Res - 1 Swift, Tate Modern - female Peregrine, 5 Sept 2001, Coppermill FB - 16 Yellow Wagtails flew east, 6 Mistle Thrushes, Tate Modern - female Peregrine, 7 Sept 2001, Walth. Res - 67 Shoveler, 100+ House Martins, Coppermill FB - 1 Spotted Flycatcher, Tate Modern - 1 pair adult Peregrines present at 8:50am and 5:50pm, 8 Sept 2001
Banbury Res - 5 Swifts, 8 Little Grebes, 4 Grey Wagtails, 30+ Sand Martins, 1+ Swallow. Walth Res (Lockwood) - 14 Teal, 2 Wigeon, 2 Com Sands, 1 Greenshank, 20+ Swallows north, 1 poss Tree Pipit north, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Little Egret in channel northeast of res - David Darrell-Lambert

Fri 7-9-01 Vicarage Farm/Trent Park 1 spot fly, 4 small heaths, 2 small coppers, 2 m browns, 3 comma - R Callf, 17 swallows R White, Ware this week one nuthatch on a garden feeder away from woodland - Liz Goodyear
Today I watched a house martin still feeding young in the nest (admittedly fairly well grown chicks). Nest was under the eaves of a house in Wood Lane near Shepherd's Bush Green. Is this unusually late for house martins? Fergus Collins, BBC History Magazine
Adult ring-billed gull, R Thames west of the barrier on barge off Anchor and Hope pub - Birdcall

Tue 4-9-01 W.Girling Flood Channel this evening 9 Green Sand, 3 Greenshank, 30 House Martin.- Tony Clancy
Got your juv Peregrine at Barking today at 2.30pm - mainly soaring above the new estate opposite before angling down out of view behind the putting/golf course.   Also just 3 Black Tern. 6 Common Tern and two Common Sands - Ken Barrett
Vicarage Farm/Trent Park, fem common redstart, 1 whinchat, 2 spot flies, male common blue - R Callf and R White

Mon 3-9-01 Enfield Lock 85 goldfinch on thistles north of KGV Res, 2 wheatear - A Middleton

Hoopoe today - Osterley Park, W.of Brentford - Nick Sampford

August Fri 31-8-01 Vicarage Farm/Trent Park, 2 male redstarts, 2 whinchat, teal, 1 spot fly, ring-necked parakeet reported (Robert misses a site tick) - R Callf and R White Chingford - Hobby over - Richard Cope
Thu 30-8-01 14:00  Holyfield, Goose field, pool nr. river. 2 Greenshank, 1 Common Sand. - P Smith Rye Meads 3 Little Egrets (was apparently 4 earlier in the week), 3 Wigeon, 9 Teal. Paul Roper Vicarage Farm/Trent Park, male redstart, 2 whinchat, kingfisher, 20 housemartins, 2 spot flies, 8 red-legged partridge - combo of R Callf and R White's sightings Stephen Harris - London Natural History Society, Essex Bird Recorder, has a new email address: sharris@leytone15.fsnet.co.uk Any chance of a mention on your website so that all those nice providers of bird records know what to do with them?	Common Buzzard - Nick Sampford
Wed 29-8-01 Chingford Plain, 2 hobby buzzing a Common Buzzard, 2 spot flies - Ken Murray Coppermill Filter Beds, 1 Swift first for a week.- David Darrell-Lambert Vicarage Farm/Trent Park, distant common buzzard, adult male common redstart, whinchat, wheatear, spot fly, kingfisher - R Callf and R White Knights Pits, Sewardstone, 1 hobby hawking dragonflies. Also, several piles of various water weed in vegetation away from the water's edge today - Tony Gray and Andrew Middleton. Last week, water vegetation photographed on the bank behind a fishing station - image includes 3 disappointed visitors from Luton, hoping for a small red-eyed damselfy sighting - A Middleton and Graham Warman. LVP information is that the lack of weed this year may be due to 'cyclical weed growth'. Of course, enquiries are best directed to the actual managers of the site, the LVRPA. Tony Gray had a meeting with LVP there this pm, LVP Conservation Officer not present, and there appears to be no strategy (that Tony is aware of) for maintaining the 'small red-eyed' population at Knights Pits, despite the LVP having a Biodiversity Action Plan. A biodiversity strategy for SRE, at its only known LV site, may be available from Tim Hill (LVP Conservation Officer), or Roger Cole, but I doubt it involves the persistent removal of this species' habitat - AM 25-08-01 Brimsdown area, 8.30-10.30.am  7 linnet, one female wheatear, three grey wagtail.  Also numbers of singing chiffchaffs and willow warblers near canal towpath. Two green woodpeckers - Martin Shepherd Tue 28-8-01 Walthamstow Marsh, 1 Cuckoo, Walthamstow Res, 3 Yellow Wagtails, Tate Modern adult male Peregrine - David Darrell-Lambert Trent Park/Vicarage farm area, 1 whinchat, 2 spot flies, lesser spot, little owl, 5 bullfinch, 2 red admirals - R Callf an R White Fairlop pm, black necked grebe still present this evening, 3 common sands - Alan Bell Dagenham Chase am - one Wheatear, 4 Spotted Fly, 2 late flighted broods of Reed Warbler, 4 Blackcap (2 sub-song), 2 Ruddy Duck. Ken Barrett
Mon 27-8-01 Fairlop pm, 11 whinchats, 7 wheatears, 1 black necked grebe on the lake - Alan Bell Trent Park area, 1 common buzzard over Hogg Hill 10am, 5 whinchats, 1 male common redstart, 3 y wags, 1 wheatear, 3 red admirals - Robert Callf, Robin White Male pied fly Olivers Wharf - Ken Murray Goosefield Fishers Green, LVP, about 10 yellow wagtails around cattle. Common sandpiper at the base of the Holyfield weir.   Jeff Butcher Dagenham Chase - 4 Whinchat Travellers Fld, 1 Common Sand Slack 1700hrs Romford (my garden) three hobbies flying south (two together) 1815hrs my garden - a Pied Fly down to drink and bathe! Ken Barrett Banbury Res 6 Little Grebe, 1 Common Sand, Tottenham Marsh 3 Whinchat, Walthamstow  Res East Warwick 24  Shoveler, 2 Common Sand, No5 1 Cuckoo - David Darrell-Lambert Mariners, Cheshunt, 1 painted lady on buddleja - John and Margaret Fitzpatrick Caught up with 10+ Small Red-eyed Damselflies at Kitts Pond, Fingringhoe Wick today with crippling scope views. They seem to be everywhere though! - Nick Green
Sun 26-8-01 Cornmill Meadows 9.30am, 2 Wigeon , on pools nearest by-pass. Also 5 Green sands. 15.45. New garden bird!  Whinchat (juv) sitting on top of silver birch in my garden, in Marle Gardens, Waltham Abbey, near Cornmill Meadows. Terry Smith. Ally Pally 1 Pied Flycatcher on Friday   Tom Clarke, Conservation Officer Ally Pally Portsmouth-Bilbao Ferry end last week, Melodious Warbler reported on-board 45 mins out of Portsmouth (on return crossing), then on show all the way into docks and flew off into Portsmouth. Also, 54 fin whale, few sperm whale, 20ish l.f.pilot whale, 1 minke, loads of dolphins, 2 sunfish, 8 little shearwaters (inc 4 flying alongside the boat), 49 grey phalaropes, c.ten Sabine's gulls - Richard Cope, Neal, and Gareth (cruise romance) Jones	by Richard Cope
Sat 25-8-01 am, Goosefield Fishers Green pm, 1 wood sandpiper on pool furthest from road - Tony Gray, also reported from Cornmill am, 4 black-tailed godwits which flew off, and one wood sand 18:30, Goosefield Fishers Green, 1 wood sandpiper on pool by the river viewed from the 'Alf Clark memorial bench'. Also a very approachable juv Green Woodpecker along the path there. - Dave & Carolyn Rimes Morning. Wader movement on Cornmill Meadows, LVP. 1 possibly 2 wood sandpiper, at least 6 green sandpiper, 11 snipe seen about 9.45. Reports now of 4 black-tailed godwits. Jeff Butcher Redstart today Dagnam Park, 11th Aug Fairlop - news from Alan Bell Painted lady today Tony Clancy's Finchley garden, yesterday Ken Murray's Woodford garden Trent Park environs hobby, 2 spot flies, purple hairstreak on blackberry - Robert Callf Fri 24-8-01 Goosefield Fishers Green pm, 1 wood sandpiper - Terry Smith Vicarage Farm, 2 wheatear - R Callf Walthamstow Marsh, juv Cuckoo seen twice in flight, my latest london record! Tate Modern, Adult Peregrine this morning at 9am and at 5.30pm and yesterday at 5.45pm - David Darrell-Lambert Thu 23-8-01 W.Girling Flood Channel this evening 1 Little Egret, 2 Greenshank, 4 Common Sand, 3 Green Sand, 3 Grey Wag, 1 Yellow Wag. - Tony Clancy Brent Res, Pied Fly, 2 Greenshank, 3 Green Sands & 5 Common Sands.   Andrew Self Whilst travelling by car to Brookfield Farm, Cheshunt today, at about 1.20pm, I came round the roundabout by the Marriott Hotel, and as I came up to the bridge, saw a Swift flying by, I only spotted one, but I couldn't stop! This is quite a late sighting, - I haven't seen one for a week or two at least. - Ann Smith Red Kite flew east towards Brookmans Park, Herts, at 10.30am - BirdCall Vicarage Farm, whinchat, Trent Park, little grebe, c.blue, 4 small heath, 4 small copper - Robert Callf Phil Street had 4 Whinchats over Dagenham Chase yesterday (Wed) at about the time I was watching three Dotterel at St Margaret's! - Ken Barrett Wed 22-8-01 Rye Meads 3 Little Egrets (09:00), 1 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Green Sandiper, 1 Greenshank, 1 Curlew (south 08:30), 1 Hobby, 2 Sparrowhawks. Paul Roper 08.45 am. Winchat on telephone/power lines and on farm buildings at Fernhall Farm TL419023 at north junction of Fernhall Lane and Long Street (turn off in Upshire/Copthall) - Jeff Butcher Hainault Forest CP, barred warbler 7.30am in bushes by lake (TQ474927), though elusive, not seen again later - BirdCall (Mike Dennis) Vicarage Farm, 2 spotted flycatchers - Robert Callf 21-8-01 Had a good afternoon at East Tilbury despite the W winds :single Pom and Bonxie, 3 Arctic Skua, 36 Black Tern W (four hour watch) 2 Little Stint, 2 Curlew Sandpipers. 5 Knot, 650 Ringed Plover etc - Ken Barrett Rye Meads 1 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Greenshank, 1 Little Egret. Paul Roper Cornmill, 1 female/immature redstart 1pm at least, just through north/west gate beyond north flash and hide - Tony Gray News from Tony Baumber, Epping Forest area, (June) 2 singing tree pipits Long Running 14th, 4 woodcock over Monks Wood 21st, (August) tawny owl Green Lane, Sewardstonebury 17th, calling St Peter's Churchyard area, Chingford 3.30am this morning, 2 yellowhammers Netherhouse Farm 13th. 20-8-01 Coursers Lane area, Herts 32 mistle thrushes, Trent Park/Vicarage Farm, 2 spotted flycatchers, 2 little owls, 9 lesser whitethroats in one bush - Robert Callf Brent Res, Greenshank 2, Green Sandpiper 3, Common Sandpiper 4,   Andrew Self Various Lea Valley sites; relief channels at southern end of William Girling Res. from footpath, 6 Green Sandpipers, 1 Greenshank, 2 Kingfishers, 1 Sparrowhawk, Brimsdown, 2 Black Redstart (adult female and immature) at rear of Leggett Freightways depot, visible from Lea Navigation towpath, Ponders End Lake, 2 Green Sandpipers, Cornmill Meads, 1 greenshank, 3 Green Sandpipers, Hall Marsh Scrape, 3 Green Sandpipers, 1 Common Sandpiper.   Stephen Harris Westferry Circus, Isle of Dogs, a bird thought by some observers to be a melodious warbler (Sunday) was still present this pm high within canopy by copper beech, but very hard to see, also 3 peregrines overhead on Sunday.

Sun 19-8-01 Brent Res, Greenshank 6, Green Sandpiper 4, Common Sandpiper 4, Common Tern 55 - Andrew Self
Cornmill Meadows - 5 Green Sand; Goosefield, Holyfield - Garganey still present; Amwell - 3 Hobby - Andy Massey
Ponders End Lake WeBS count yesterday included 3 Green and 1 Common Sandpiper plus 2 Swifts over.Mike Dent
Fairlop pm , 5 swifts, 2 common terns, green sand, and my first peregrine on 11th August - Alan Bell
Trent Park area, 3 small heath, female common blue, painted lady - Robert Callf
Fri 17th Rye Meads pm, 3 little egrets, plus one by the WG Res same time: four in the valley that evening at least - Richard Cope

18-8-01 Walthamstow Reservoirs, 33 Shoveler, 1 Oystercatcher, 11 Common Sandpiper, 46 Common Tern, 3-4 Kingfishers, 3 Lesser Whitethroat, c.20 Common Whitethroat.   Stephen Harris
Rye Meads 2 Little Egrets still present at 16:00hrs (there were 3 in the end last night, the third came in at 20:00hrs), 3 Greenshank, 5 Green Sandpipers, 2 Common Sandpipers, 11 Snipe, 20 Grey Wagtails, 50 Pied Wagtails - Paul Roper
Brimsdown.8.55am.Juvenile Black Redstart, without yellow gape, on Leggett's, feeding on insects on the roof and flycatching up in the air. (Probably a female). Nazeing, 13 Common Terns, 1 Egyptian Goose. 5-6 Willow Warblers calling, and Chiffchaff singing, in shrubs along the River Lee Navigation Channel. Also brief burst of Blackcap song. Female Sparrowhawk flying along the bank. Helen Bantock
Brent Res Greenshank, Green Sandpiper 3, Snipe, Common Sandpiper, Whinchat, Wheatear, Garden Warbler, Lesser Sp. Woodpecker. Andrew Self
Copped Hall area, 10 bullfinch, 50 house martins, 2 hooded mergansers, 1 kingfisher - A Middleton

17-8-01 Channels at the south end of the WG Res from public footpath, little egret mid-evening, 5 green sands, 1 common sand, 3 wheatear, 1 juvenile cuckoo - Steve Connor and others
Ponders End Lake 1 common sand, 1 red-eyed damselfly - Tony Clancy
Rye Meads   2 Little Egrets, 1 Greenshank, 2 Green Sandpipers, 6 Snipe, 30 Pied Wagtails, 20 Grey Wagtails, 1 White Wagtail, 4 Lesser Whitethroats, Good numbers of Willow Warblers and Chiffchaffs, looks like a bit of passage has started at last. 1 Albino Black Headed Gull - This is the scandanavian bird which frequents the Rye Meads and Amwell area each winter and is now present for 2001/02 winter - Paul Roper
Colney Heath wheatear, Vicarage Farm whinchat, painted lady, yesterday 5 lesser whites - Robert Callf

16-8-01 3 p.m  Fisher's Green - Holyfield just above the weir - female mandarin - Jeff Butcher.
Goosefied, Fishers Green, garganey present this morning - Phil Vines
Chingford Plain, common buzzard at 11.30am - Ken Murray

15-8-01 Goosefied, Fishers Green, garganey present this evening - news from Terry Smith / Phil Vines
Coppermill Filter Beds, 3 Swifts south., 1 LRP south at 08:00, Tate Modern, adult male Peregrine present at 13:00 hrs and again at 17:40 hrs, an adult female was present yesterday at 18:00 hrs - David Darrell-Lambert
Black redstart Brimsdown - Saw 4 juveniles today. 2 on Leggett's roof and on the lorry in front, which has its sides drawn back, like an enormous 4 poster bed. Other 2 on Johnson M (London Development Agency site about to be re-developed) - H Bantock
Whitewebbs - 4 drake mandarin, painted lady, marsh tit, 20 speckled woods here and Forty hall, 22 mistle thrushes Brayside Farm - Robert Callf

Rye Meads 14/8/01 1 Greenshank, 2 Little Egrets still present. One of these birds has occasionally been frequenting the meadows and can be seen from the HMWT hide accessible from the RSPB reserve. I had a Little Egret on Kings Mead this am about 9.30 opposite Chadwell GC, and a common buzzard over the wood by the Whempstead turning on the Ware to Watton-at-Stone road (I think its the A602) - Nick Sampford Trent Park common sand over Lower Lake , also 9 mandarin here, passage garden warbler, 2 c blues, 3 small coppers, 5 small heaths, 1 holly blue, Covert Way NR 3 purple hairstreaks, 13-8 tree sparrow and y wag over Coursers Farm, Herts - Robert Callf 29th July British Dragonfly Society website 'hot news' - Lee Valley Country Park - Sewardstone Pits. This was an extremely hot day and a short walk after climbing a gate produced the following: 5 Small Red-eyed Damselflys, 15 Red-eyed Damselflys, 2 Emperor Dragonflys, 10 Brown Hawkers, 2 Common Darters, 1 Four-spotted Chaser, 1 Southern Hawker, Azure Damselflys. EB/AJLS (news alert from Alan Reynolds - Herts Dragonfly site) 13-8-01 adult Peregrine this morning on the Tate Modern at 8:40am - David Darrell-Lambert Sun 12-8-01.  KGV, 3.00pm, footpath on East Side south of Pattypool Mead.  Hobby flew over, caught a martin on the wing and headed towards Sewardstone Marsh - Martin Shepherd 1  Hobby hunting over East Warwick, 22 Shoveler, 30+ Common Tern, young Herring Gulls and Lesser Black-backs on the island, 30+ Swifts - David Darrell-Lambert Brent Res - Med Gull - 1 juv mid-morning in East Marsh along with Greenshank & Snipe.   Andrew Self Sat 11 Aug: 14:00 - 16:00 Rye Meads: One Little Egret present most of the time and was briefly joined by a second bird. Also, 2 Green Sandpipers, 3 Snipe, 2 Sparrowhawks. Dave Rimes

10-8-01 Cheshunt Park one crossbill flew over calling - A Middleton Had a really big Grass Snake on Cornmill on Wednesday, it must have been 3 foot long, biggest one I have ever seen. It was on the path by the Cornmill Stream. Tony Gray Rye Meads 1 little egret and 10 green sands early afternoon Apologies for earlier message in error.

Little Egret at Rye Meads - Richard Cope classifies his images as 'dodgy'

Wed 1-8-01 Woodford area, 3 yellow wags over S/W this am, and a brimstone last Saturday - Ken Murray
Trent Park 4 common blues, 11 small coppers, 2 small heaths - Robert Callf and Robin White

July 2001

Tue 31-7-01 Cornmill a summer plumaged black-tailed godwit from around 5.30pm on 1st meadow north from bypass, seen from west side - Terry Smith, also c6 green sands, 5-6 additional waders flew low and north, possibly dunlin, 2 common snipe, 1 hobby - various twitchers
Trent Park 16 small coppers, 6 mandarin, female pochard - R Callf and R White

Mon 30-7-01  Walthamstow Reservoirs, 1 Little Ringed Plover, 10 Common Sandpipers - Stephen Harris
Trent Park, the silver-washed fritillary was seen again in flight in the same area, from 11.0-11.10, also 10 small coppers, 1 red admiral - Robert Callf and Robin White
Just some quick black redstart gossip - 5 young came in from Germany still on their nest on a trailer/ container - discovered at Tilbury docks. They had been abandoned by their parents, but were hand-reared at an animal rescue centre "Thurrock Wildlife Concern" in Orsett. They have now been released and still living around the centre. I wonder what they will do this winter? - Jenny Scholfield, Conservation Manager, London Wildlife Trust
An oak eggar moth flew south at 3pm near the Good Intent at Upshire, 1 common blue - A Middleton

Sun 29-7-01 Cornmill Meadows L R Plover 2, Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Cornmill Meadows Arboretum Turtle Dove 2+ m, Yellowhammer 1m, John's Lake, Galley Hill Turtle Dove 1, Purple Hairstreak 3m - Mike Dent, John Moss
Trent Park, in clearings alongside the railway line, Cockfosters end of the park, a male silver-washed fritillary was watched nectaring on brambles and rose-bay willowherb from 15.25 to 15.45, also 10 small coppers, 2 small heaths - Robert Callf

Sat 28-7-01 Mill Lane overlooking the KGV Res, 2 whimbrel flew south around 8.50am - Phil Vines
Ally Pally An excellent record for the park of a male ruddy darter.   Tom Clarke.
Yardley Hill to Lippitts Hill, West Essex, 12 bullfinch in 4 places, 19 species of butterfly inc. brimstone and a new generation common blue - A Middleton
Trent Park area, 2 kingfishers Lower Lake, 1 male ruddy darter - R Callf and R White

Fri 27-7-01 Saw about 12 purple hairstreak on ash in Coppett's Wood this evening - Tony Clancy
Trent Park, Church Wood, a large, fast and erratic orangey moth thought to have been an oak eggar flew into the wood around 2.30pm, 4 small coppers - Robert Callf, Vicarage Farm red-legged partridge confrimed breeding 2 young + 2 adults - Robin White
Ponders End a calling Grey Plover flew over around 5.30am, Bramfield Woods, Herts, 17 species of butterfly inc. 3 white admirals, 1 brown argus, 4 sightings of large, fast and erratic orangey moth(s) thought to have been oak eggar(s) between 2 and 5pm - Andrew Middleton

Thu 26-7-01 Hatfield House Park, Herts, spotted flycatchers at 3 sites, 2 hobby, 2 juv kestrels, 1 kingfisher - A Middleton
Brimsdown, 7am, 3 kingfishers flew south, 1 black redstart - Helen Bantock
Trent Park/Vicarage Farm, migrant hawker, painted lady, small copper, 2 Essex skippers, 2 holly blues, Gothic - R Callf, R White

Mike Cotton, Bill Craig, Bill Cutts - photo Andrew Middleton

Fri 20-7-01 Covert Way NR, Hadleigh area, 6 ringlets, 6 purple hairstreaks, 10 small and 1 Essex skipper identified - R Callf, Christina Lee, Trent Park area 2 small coppers, 18 commas, 1 red ad, 3 ringlets, small tort, 1 peacock - R Callf, also R White - 6 bullfinch total for both sites. Thu 19th Trent Park 1 ringlet, 28 mistle thrushes flew from Shaw's Wood, 3 mandarin, 2 red admirals, Vicarage Farm 1 hobby - R Callf
Brimsdown black redstarts, 2 birds seen foraging from towpath fence by Leggetts, also a singing male heard, food still being carried across the canal - Helen Bantock
White-letter hairstreaks showing well on the Aimes Green Bridleway near the round house today - three on one small clump of bramble flowers together, approx. ten in total. Numerous Roesel's bush crickets in grass in the meadows - Carrinr

Thu 19-7-01 Trent Park 1 ringlet, 28 mistle thrushes flew from Shaw's Wood, 3 mandarin, 2 red admirals, Vicarage Farm 1 hobby - R Callf

Wed 18-7-01 This year's mandarin records for Epping Forest - Ian Woodward - Connaught Waters: Minimum broods 6, minimum pairs 9, estimated chicks fledged c9 - Strawberry Hill Pond: Minimum broods 4, minimum pairs 4, estimated chicks fledged 8-14 (6 still growing!) - Wake Arms Roundabout: Minimum 2 broods, chicks fledged 1-5 ~ Warren Pond: Minimum 1 brood, minimum 2 pairs, chicks fledged - unknown - Suntrap area: 2 possible pairs. Also, a brood of Tufted duck at Connaught yesterday (17th) - just one chick left c2 weeks old.
Potters Bar area, 1 crossbill and two common buzzards, all flew over east - A Middleton
I've just heard from Dusty Gedge that the Dome Peregrine piece is being screened on BBC1 Newsroom South East on Friday 29th at 6.30pm - Mike Dent
Grovelands Park, Enfield - 17 mandarin, eclipse drake gadwall, 5 purple hairstreaks, 4 flying in drizzle - R Callf

Tue 17-7-01 Essex Rookeries updated - Stephen Harris
Trent Park 4 teal, small tortoiseshell, 4 common gulls on ploughed field, Vicarage Farm little owl - R White
At 5.50pm a hummingbird hawkmoth flew into a picture framing factory where Richard Callf works at Hutton Grove, North Finchley and flew round the light. They released it into the garden where it fed on buzy lizzies - Robert Callf

Sat 14-7-01 Cornmill - these lovely little beauties white letter hairstreaks took best part of 4 hours to find, but when we did they showed well. I might have seen 4/5 in the Cornmill Meadow area - not sure as they were only very quick glimpses - plus12 other species inc comma, holly blue and red admirals. Then went to round bungalow (across road at north end of arboretum) and had 20+ sightings of as many as 6+, and photographed them on thistles by the road - Nick Sampford

Thu 12-7-01 Brent Res: 1 adult Black-tailed Godwit, 18 Common Sandpipers, 1 Wigeon, 3 broods of Gadwall - in the evening. Andrew Self
Cornmill, Waltham Abbey, 3 or 4 green sandpipers, 2 little ringed plovers, 1 ringed plover - Phil Vines
Broxbourne Woods, 1 calling crossbill flew east around 2pm - A Middleton

Purple hairstreak down for 10 seconds Wednesday at Bramfield Herts - Nick Sampford

Mon 9-7-01 Royal Forest Hotel area, Epping Forest, 20 purple hairstreaks, no sign of last year's spot fly - Mike Cotton
Covert Way LNR, Monken Hadley area, 6 ringlets., 1 bullfinch, 2 southern hawkers - Christina Lee and Robert Callf, Trent Park 3 or 4 x 6 spot burnets, 5 commas, Sun 8th holly blue in a Southbury Road garden (Enfield) - R Callf
There were a scattering of waders at Cornmill Meads yesterday (8 July): 3 Greenshank, 1 Ringed Plover, 2 Little Ringed Plover, also many White-legged Damselflys, also 14 LRP reported there on 4th and 1 Ruff on 6th - Stephen Harris
Ware - 90 starlings in a row along the roofs of 1 house plus 1/2 the next - amazing sight all lined up in a row plus around chimney at the end of our road. 7.30pm hummingbird hawk moth on dwarf munstead lavender again - Liz Goodyear
A minimum of 1000 starlings gathering, seen from car pm, Wharf Road roost, Ponders End, South Herts one calling crossbill flew south/west - A Middleton

Sat 7-7-01 Vicarage Farm pm, 1 fresh small tortoiseshell - summer brood, 1 painted lady - Robert Callf

Fri 6-7-01 Male Black Redstart singing in Guildhall Yard (off Gresham Street) every morning this week (8.00 - 8.30am) Duncan Mackenzie
5 Wigeon at Walthamstow Reservoirs yesterday evening (5th).  And a third brood of Pochard (last year there were 10 broods - I think all the reed planting has restricted breeding habitat for this species) - Stephen Harris
South Herts towards Potters Bar - thought to have been 2 goshawks circling high around 2pm (large size, definitely not common or honey buzzard, not large falcon, constantly fanned and rounded tail pro goshawk, outer primaries protruding and backswept, inner primary moult, head protruding well, general flight jizz very odd for sparrowhawk) - M Catt, A Middleton

Thu 5-7-01 I met Stuart Hamilton this afternoon on Cornmill and he told me he had just seen a Marbled White on the track up from the round house. I went and had a look for it but no luck, unfortunately thirst got the better of me after about an hour - still there seems to be a fair population of White-Letter Hairstreaks along the track. There were 2 Hairy Dragonflies near the weir on Tuesday, I think this is the latest I have ever seen HDs - Tony Gray
Ally Pally At the moment small, essex and large skippers, commas and gatekeepers are on the wing. Today I recorded only the second ever Four-spotted chaser in what has been a poorish year. First common darter on 3rd July. Emperors and migrant hawkers are the common dragonflies.   Bird wise things are quiet as you would imagine. Of interest are the daily visits to the reservoirs of Hobbys. Daily records of bullfinch. A fantastic nesting sparrowhawk with 2+ young. An easy viewing spot is far enough away so as not to disturb - Tom Clarke.Nature Conservation Officer for Alexandra Park
Grovelands Park 3 mandarin broods - 3, 5 and 1 young, 1 Essex, 20 small and 1 large skipper, 1 male common blue, 2 comma - R Callf, 1 ringlet Trent Park - R White
Dave Morrison and I had 22 Green Sandpipers, 15 LRPs, 9 Redshank, 1 islandica Black-tailed Godwit, and 1 Greenshank over Rainham on Tuesday night (3rd), and there has been a drake Cinnamon Teal at Hornchurch CP on and off this week. Highlights for last night's moth-trap included Elephant and lime hawk moths (East Ham)- Howard Vaughan

Small skipper ID and image
by Nick Sampford

Sun 1-7-01 Brimsdown c4 black redstarts around Leggetts area, Deptford Creek bay 3 common sandpipers - H Bantock
May be of interest - went to Sharpenhoe Clappers (Beds) pm.  Dark Green Fritillaries showing well, loads of Marbled Whites also Chalkhill Blue & Ringlet & Burnet Moths. - Tony Clancy

Marbled White - Nick Sampford