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Thursday 3rd March 2016

 * Bexley DA5 (Coldblow field): mixed flock of 300+ Woodpigeon and Stock Dove, Green Woodpecker, 1+ Rook, 50+ Jackdaw, 20+ Linnet (Ian Stewart)
 * Brookmill Park: Kingfisher (Conrad Ellam).
 * Cornmill Meadows: 4 Common Buzzard, Red Kite, Kingfisher, Common Chiffchaff, Grey Wagtail, singing Reed Bunting, 40+ Siskin, possible Mealy Redpoll (just N of hide - quite pale/grey and lacking buff tones, but could just be bleached Lesser Redpoll?) (Simon Papps)
 * Foots Cray: Little Egret in flooded field by Edgington Way (Ian Stewart)
 * Foots Cray Meadows: Pair Mute Swan, 4 Canada Geese over, pair Egyptian Geese, 15 Tufted Duck, 4 Little Grebe, Little Egret, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, Water Rail, Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, Redwing, Chiffchaff, 6+ Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch, 3+ Jay, pair Bullfinch (Ian Stewart)
 * Gallions Reach: 2 Curlew, 2 Oystercatcher, 20+ Redshank (KJMcmanus)
 * Hackney Marshes: Wick Wood - 10+ Siskin in alder trees next to canal (JW Davies)
 * Hogsmill SF: Common Buzzard SW at 10:25 (Nick Tanner).
 * London Wetland Centre: 1m Pintail, 3 Common Snipe, 28 Wigeon, 1 Water Rail, 7 singing/calling Cetti's Warbler, 4 Fieldfare, 1m 1f Stonechat (Martin Honey)
 * Leyton Tip Area: Adult YLG, 5 siskin over, Common Buzzard over S, 7 mipits, 5 jackdaw (Jamie Partridge)
 * Maple Lodge NR, Maple Cross: 1 pr Great Crested Grebe at nest, (Roger Dewey)
 * Oxlease wood 4 Siskin 12+ Goldcrest Songthrush Grt spotted woodpecker Kestrel Tawny owl [calling] Nuthatch
 * Pinner (HA5): 82 Redwing, Fieldfare, Coal Tit & Goldcrest (Jon Ridge).
 * Rainham Marshes: Short-eared Owl at Serin Mound (Fraser Simpson)
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): Sparrowhawk, Peregrine, 3 Stock Dove E, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest, Jackdaw E (Ian Stewart)
 * Staines Reservoir: 6 Black- necked Grebe, 30+ Goldeneye, Pintail, ( Jim Sweetland) Ferruginous Duck, among Pochard on west bank of North Basin. (M. Kirkland)
 * Stockers Lake: Mealy Redpoll, pr. Siskin, probable Lesser Spotted Woodpecker (only heard drumming, c. 1.5 second bursts), 1m Red-Crested Pochard (3m, 1f reported by others), Oystercatcher, Red Kite, Sparrowhawk, Stock Dove. 63 Wigeon on flooded field at Stockers Farm, Little Owl reported there too. (M. Kirkland)
 * Stoke Newington Reservoirs: pr Teal, 3 Reed Bunting, Sparrowhawk, Cetti's Warbler, Redwing, pr Great Spotted Woodpecker, pr Great Crested Grebe (Chris Farthing)
 * Stoneleigh KT17: Small flock of 10 Siskin again present in The Glade am (Neil Batten)
 * Tooting Bec Common: Firecrest still present in Bedford woods 8.20am . Try 3rd path in from bridge in tall trees covered by ivy near newly cleared area. (Will Rose)
 * Uxbridge: 1 Little Egret by R Frays, Cowley Road. (Roger Dewey)
 * Wanstead Flats: 19 Shoveler, 8 Egyptian Goose, 17 Shoveler, 6 Pochard, 3 Little Grebe, 5 Redwing, singing Blackbird, 4-5 Skylark (3 singing), Meadow Pipit, Redpoll, 15 + Greenfinch, Kestrel (Nick Croft)
 * London Wetland Centre: Pintail, Widgeon, Pochard, Teal, Redshank, Cetti's Warbler(heard), 4-5 Stonechat, Siskin, 2 Reed bunting, Green Woodpecker, 2 Greatcrested grebe, 1 little grebe, 3 fieldfare, 15 Redwing. (Eugene Dillon-Hooper)

Wednesday 2nd March 2016

 * Alexandra Park: Siskin heard 0648 nursery (Bob Watts) Kingfisher (Dominic Mitchell per Bob Watts)
 * Barking Bay: 46 Shelduck, c.170 Golden Plover over and settled on south shore mudflats, 4 Curlew, 1 Common Sandpiper, 3 Yellow-legged Gulls, 1 1w/2cy Kittiwake flew downstream, 1 m Stonechat (N Senior)
 * Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens: 1 Tawny Owl (near old nest site before flying to the Leafyard) (Charlie Farrell)
 * Lamorbey Park: Mute Swan lower lake (probably 2), 7 Tufted Duck, 2 Little Grebe, Kingfisher with small fish prey, Pied Wagtail, 2 Mistle Thrush, 5+ Goldcrest, Coal Tit, singing Chaffinch (Ian Stewart)
 * Leyton Tip: Adult and 1st winter Yellow-legged Gulls. (Jamie Partridge)
 * Pinner (HA5): 41 Redwing, 2 Long-tailed Tit & 2 Coal Tit (Jon Ridge).
 * Purfleet: 2 Oystercatcher (Fraser Simpson)
 * Queens Park NW2: c40 Redwing (Charlie Farrell)
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): Grey Heron S chased by Herring Gull, m Great Spotted Woodpecker, Goldcrest, Jackdaw over (Ian Stewart)
 * Stoke Newington Reservoirs: Peregine, Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, Kingfisher, Little Egret, Reed Bunting, courting pr Great Crested Grebe, Goldcrest (Chris Farthing)
 * Wanstead Flats: 2 singing Skylark, 13 Shoveler, 4 Pochard, 2 Tufted Duck, 2 Egyptian Goose, 2 Little Grebe, 100+ frogs in Angel pond (Nick Croft)
 * Wanstead Park: 24 Teal, 30 Shoveler, 15 Tufted Duck, 2 Pochard, 3 Little Grebe, 10+ Siskin, 20+ Goldfinch, 20+ Redwing, 2 Goldcrest (Nick Croft)
 * Boston Manor Park: 5-6 Reed Bunting, 3 Mandarin, 4 Shoveler, 15 Tufted duck, lots of Blue, Great and Long-tailed Tits, Parakeets, Blackbirds, Robins, Black-headed Gulls, a few Coot, Moorhen and Canada Geese. (Eugene Dillon-Hooper)

Tuesday 1st March 2016

 * Acton Cemetery: Kestrel, c25 Redwing, Mistle Thrush (Charlie Farrell)
 * Brent Reservoir: Little Egret behind dam (Andrew Self)
 * Brookmill Park: Mandarin, 2 Goldcrest (Conrad Ellam)
 * Camley Street Park: 2 Lesser Redpoll briefly at 12.45 (Colin Brooks)
 * Erith: Thames Path from Corinthian Manorway to Crabtree Manorway: 2 Rock Pipit, 70 Redshank, 50 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Dunlin, 4 Shelduck, 3 Oystercatcher, 7 Ringed Plover (Nick S)
 * Grovelands Park: 22 Shoveler 13m 9f, Firecrest in holly near Seaforth Grdns side entrance (Robert Callf)
 * Hampstead: Garden - Long-tailed Tit and male Blackcap dangling on my fat balls. Don't see that every day! (Greengrandad) Thankfully, sounds painful ;)
 * Hendon - Peel Centre: Peregrine Falcon on (soon to be demolished?) tower block overlooking tube line (K Watts)
 * Lamorbey Park: Great Crested Grebe (my first here this year after missing Mike's bird the other day, presumably a restless male from Danson), 2 Egyptian Geese (seems that the bird the other day was playing dead- part of a courtship ritual?), 6 Tufted Duck, 2 Peregrines, Kingfisher, Goldcrest, 4+ Siskin (Ian Stewart)
 * London Wetland Centre: Yellow-legged Gull, Bittern (Main Lake), 4 Pintail, Little Egret (Grazing Marsh) (S.Barry)
 * Northolt & Greenford CP ( Smith's farm scrape): PM 15 Snipe, 2 Male 1 Female Shoveler (Martin Smith)
 * Pinner (HA5): female Blackcap, Coal Tit & Goldfinch on feeding apparatus, Goldcrest, female Sparrowhawk & 2 Jackdaw (Jon Ridge); later, Long-tailed Tit & 31 Redwing (JR).
 * Purfleet: 1st-w Iceland Gull on opposite side of river at Darent creek mouth (Fraser Simpson)
 * Sidcup DA15 (York Avenue): Great Spotted Woodpecker, singing Goldcrest, 3 Siskin in garden briefly (Ian Stewart)
 * Sutcliffe Park: Drake Teal, Green Sandpiper, Common Snipe (Conrad Ellam)
 * Trellick Tower: Peregrine (F.O'Sullivan)

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