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Monday 3rd February 2014

 * Barn Owls: Please support the Barn Owl Trust's anti-poisoning campaign - info & petition here.
 * Brookmill Park: Mandarin, Kingfisher, 7 Redwing (Conrad Ellam)
 * Clapham High Street: Purposeful flock of 25+ Lapwing flying SW @ 08:00 (Mark H).
 * Redbridge Lakes and Roding Valley Park: 2 Snipe, Grey Heron, half a dozen Goldfinches, 2 Herring Gulls, Common Gull (Alan Hobson).

Sunday 2nd February 2014

 * Bowyer's Water: drake Goosander (Ian Bradshaw)
 * Brent Reservoir: Greylag Goose, c200 Tufted Duck, 37 Pochard, 24 Snipe, 3 Lapwing - hides fully accessible now (Andrew Self, Roy Beddard & Andrew Verrall).
 * Brookmill Park: Little Grebe, Mandarin, Kingfisher, Song Thrush, 5 Redwing, Goldcrest, House Sparrow (Conrad Ellam).
 * Friday Lake: 2 red-head Smew (SE Herts RSPB, Ian Bradshaw)
 * Hall Marsh: male Stonechat (SE Herts RSPB)
 * Hooks Marsh Lake: 3 drake Smew (2ad & 1st-w), 3 Goosander (drake & 2 ducks) (Ian Bradshaw).
 * Lee Valley: 3 Siskin alders by dog circuit (Ian Bradshaw)
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Shelduck, Jack Snipe, 5 Snipe, 44 Lapwing, Brambling (WWT website).
 * Middlesex Filter Beds: Firecrest m at 1305 & 1315 just south of north pipe, 2-3 Chiffchaff, 2 Ring-necked Parakeet, 5 Little Grebe, Jay, 2 Teal pr, Goldeneye (Alan Hobson).
 * Regent's Park/Primrose Hill: 41 Greylag, 16 Egyptian Goose -nesting under way, 3 Shelduck, 2 Mandarin pr, 20 Gadwall -pr mating, 48 Shoveler, 34 Red-crested Pochard, 152 Pochard, 192 Tufted Duck, 29 Grey Heron, 4 Kestrel 2pr, Little Grebe, 2 Great Crested Grebe pr salvaging flooded nest, 12 Redwing (birdman_euston).
 * Richmond Park: 2 Stonechat pr Martin's Pond (3 other prs recently), 1200 Woodpigeon (J.Wilczur).
 * St James's Park: Coot on nest, 2 Little Grebe trilling, 5 Cormorant, 2 Teal (are they part of the collection?) (Matt Reed).
 * Staines Moor: 2 Cormorant over, Grey Heron, 7 Little Egret, 3 Little Grebe, 15+ Meadow Pipit, Short-eared Owl quartering the moor at 1630, 9 Skylark, Stonechat (Richard Woolley). Hi Richard, whereabouts on the moor did you see the SEO?  Thanks. It was hunting in the North East corner near the wooden footbridge (RW).
 * Staines Reservoir: m Scaup (N basin), 20+ Goldeneye, Great Northern Diver (S basin), 2 Black-necked Grebe (S basin), Slavonian Grebe seen earlier by others (N basin), Red Kite western bank, Buzzard NW corner (Neil Anderson).
 * River Lee CP (south): small mixed flock of Lesser Redpoll and Siskins [min est's?], 2 Raven and Common Buzzard over (SE Herts RSPB).
 * Tooting Commons, north end ("Triangle Field"): c50 Redwing, 1 Nuthatch, 1 singing Song Thrush, 1 calling Green Woodpecker (heard only), 1 Common Buzzard over N (mobbed by 4 Carrion Crow) (Nick Granger-Taylor).
 * Trent Park: 3 Buzzard (James Palmer).
 * Waltham Abbey: 4 Common Buzzard at 1235 over Beach Hill Park between Avey Lane and A121 (Martin Shepherd).

Saturday 1st February 2014

 * Brent Reservoir: Main & Heron_hides inaccessible due to extremely high water level - 2 Egyptian Geese, Canada x Greylag hybrid ('Granada Goose'), 35+ Pochard, 170+ Tufted Duck, Tufted x Scaup hybrid, 11 Snipe, 2 Water Rail, 14 Grey Heron, 15+ Redwings (Brent Birders, Bob Watts, Henry Wyn-Jones et al).
 * Brookmill Park: Little Grebe, Mandarin, 7 Redwing (Conrad Ellam).
 * Bushy Park: fem Stonechat, c10 Lesser Redpoll, 50+ Siskin (Bill Dykes).
 * Canons Farm: 400 Fieldfare, 200 Redwing, 450 Linnet (Steve Gale).
 * Crayford Marshes: Corn Bunting, Green Sandpiper, 2 Curlew, Kingfisher, 4 Little Egret, 2 Little Grebe, c1000 Dunlin, c70 Redshank, c350 Lapwing (Kev Jarvis & Ralph Todd)
 * Finsbury Park: 6 Shovelers, 2 Red-crested Pochard, 8 Gadwalls (boating lake) (Ian Bradshaw)
 * Globe Town: 2 Mute Swan, 2 Canada Goose on canal (Matt Reed).
 * Grovelands Park: 6 Lesser Redpoll in birch trees nr Broadwalk entrance (Phil Rhodes).
 * Haggerston Park: 3 Moorhens on tiny pond (Matt Reed).
 * Holyfield Hall Farm: Red Kite W at 1110, 2 Common Buzzard, c2000 Black-headed Gull (Martin Shepherd).
 * Kilburn: Jay over St Cuthberts Rd (Matt Reed).
 * London Wetland Centre: 2 Shelduck pr, 2 Pintail pr, 3m Mandarin Duck, 2 Peregrine pr - f landed on marsh to bathe, Kestrel m caught a Blue_Tit, 4 Snipe, c70 Lapwing, c120 Herring Gull incl 2 with NTGG rings, Chiffchaff h, Brambling - S route feeders (J.Wilczur, O.Dewhurst & M.Honey et al).
 * Mile End Park: Ecology Pavilion - 2 Mallard, 2 Coot, Moorhen; Millenium Park - Coot (Matt Reed).
 * Northolt UB5 5AX (White Hart Rbt): 40+ House Sparrow at roost at dawn (Neil Anderson).
 * Pinner Green HA5: Red Kite over 1430 (Charlie Farrell)
 * Regent's Park: Smew&Scaup [both sp pinioned here - b_e], 2 Kestrel m&f together in tree, Red-crested Pochard (Sue Huckle).
 * Swanscombe Marsh: Raven over at 0900 & 1135, also Peregrine with prey on pylon, 14 Shelduck, Curlew, 30 Redshank, 7 Turnstone, 3 Cetti's Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff (Andrew Self).
 * Ten Acre Wood area: (parts of wood under deep water from overflowing brook) - 8 Teal, Buzzard, f Sparrowhawk, 45 Lapwing, Snipe, 50+ Redwing, 40+ Fieldfare, Nuthatch, 28 Linnet (Neil Anderson).
 * Thorney CP: Bullfinch m, Kingfisher between two bridges, Dunnock, 21 Pochards, 40 Tufted Ducks, 2 Goldfinch, 7 Great Crested Grebes, 4 Mute Swan (Sue Giddens).
 * Totteridge Valley: female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker and 50+ Redwings at Oakfields/Mill Hill, Red Kite over Ellern Mede Farm 1215, also 3 Bullfinch, 2 Kestrel, 4 Mandarin, 4 Teal, 4 Meadow Pipit, 2 Treecreeper (Ian Ellis).
 * Wanstead Flats: 40 Linnet, 10+ Skylark (including song-flighting bird), Kestrel, 2 Sparrowhawk, 4 Meadow Pipit, 4 Pied Wagtail, Common Snipe, Fieldfare, 6 Redwing, 10 Gadwall, 7 Shoveler - many gulls (mostly Common and Black-headed) (Nick Croft).

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