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Latest sightings

Pete Lambert wrote yesterday: Just walked round the East Marsh this morning where I was very surprised to disturb five Bullfinch!  They were along the channel near the Green Bridge, flew up to the top of a tree south of the bridge and then went off south.  Don’t recollect seeing as many as this before […]

November 2011 Bird Survey Results

[Note – To view larger versions of images: Right Click on an image and choose Open Link in New Window,then you can Left Click to get a magnified image]I haven’t any info to add about the November Survey as instead of going to Tottenham Marshes, I set off for Norfolk at 4am! I’m told it […]

More winter whitethroat news

Pete Lamber wrote today:  Terry relocated the Whitethroat this morning on the footpath east of Walthamstow Res at 1030 today.  The footpath runs from Blackhorse Lane just north of Lockwood Way.  If you come in there and walk along the footpath, on the right hand side you reach some allotments.  The bird was on the […]

Winter Whitethroat?

Pete Lambert wrote yesterday:  On my way to Tottenham Marshes this morning at 9am I had a brief view of what looked like a (Common) Whitethroat.  It was just south of Banbury Reservoir along the footpath that runs south from there by the houses, coming out on Blackhorse Lane E17 (just north of Lockwood Way).  It […]

Med Gull and other sightings

Pete Lambert Wrote yesterday: Tuesday 29 November 2011 and very blustery, so most of birds out of sight.  But at 9.10am I arrived at the Chalk Bridge (crossing the Lee Navigation at the north end of the Marshes) where as usual I checked the gulls sitting on the roof just NE of the Bridge, at […]

Terrapin from back river

This chap keeps appearing on a branch on the back river. Just inside the Gate to the moorings. Is quite shy but likes to take the air on a sunny day. Think it is one that we used to see in the canal a few years ago.