Pete Lambert wrote yesterday: Saw a female Bullfinch at East Marsh this morning (24 Nov 2011) which together with hearing one call in three places last week and seeing two males earlier in the month leads me to think there may be three Bullfinch wintering on the Marshes – always difficult to see though. Saw […]
This picture of Winchats…
[Note: Click on an image to enlarge it. Click again to zoom in further. See blog entry for Dec 2010 to see the named areas on aerial maps.]A glorious day for the Bird Survey given we were in the third week of October – starting out with frost on the ground and developing into a […]
[Note: Click on an image to enlarge it. Click again to zoom in further. See blog entry for Dec 2010 to see the named areas on aerial maps.]
Pete Lambert wrote today: Lovely morning for a walk over Tottenham Marshes and a spectacular passage of Wood Pigeons. Saw my first group of about 40 flying SW as I started to walk towards the East Marsh at 7.05am and this continued up to 7.37am with groups of 170,510,920,80,710,310,550,300,30,80,210,50 and finally 70. If I’ve not […]
Hi all, Wednesday 26th morning a small yellow and green bird briefly popped up in front of me in the bushes on the west marsh by Watermead way. Looking something like I imagined a firecrest to look like (i’ve never seen one). Except that this bird had red and black stripes on it’s head with […]
Pete Lambert wrote today: Walked round the Marsh today for the first time since last Tuesday and found two Stonechats. A male on Clendish Marsh and a female at West Marsh. Fingers crossed that they might stay this year. Other signs of Autumn were a Redpoll SW calling and a Linnet SE calling. Also nine thrushes […]
[Note: Click on an image to enlarge it. Click again to zoom in further.] It took a while for me to register that the persistent call I was hearing was from juvenile Sparrowhawk!I was also very impressed at Ray’s pishing technique – we were standing next to the only large clump of reeds on the […]
[Note: Click on an image to enlarge it. Click again to zoom in further.] Until we have a better way of publishing these results, I thought I’d continue to add them in this way. (David’s still working on Aug & Sep results.) It was good to see the Common Sandpiper flying along the canal. We […]
Pete Lambert took this fine picture of a Winchat recently on Walthamstow marshes. He has also seen them on Clendish and Wild Marsh West in the past week or so. Hopefully more moving through in the coming weeks. DMC