LONDON ROSEFINCH

• Walthamstow Marshes: m COMMON ROSEFINCH c1900-21:15 at least singing & showing Park at Lea Bridge Rd riding school E10 7QL. Walk North along concrete track on the West side of the paddocks, view from the North side of the railway bridge looking to the area to the South-east. This is an inaccessible piece of scrub but bird does perch up when singing. Now it's opposite Anchor & Hope pub and at railway underpass. Rosefinch    Still present today the 8th. Rosefinch  Showing Well
  

BRENT RESERVOIR.

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Yet another london lifer today with SPOTTED SANDPIPER putting me on (278).

Brent Res.

Trust me the bird is on the right standing on a tern raft. Spotted Sandpiper
Spotted sandpiper London records: 

• pre-1852: Brent Reservoir (Middx), one shot on an unknown date (Harting, 1866)
• 1956: Hilfield Park Reservoir (Herts), one on September 2nd (LBR 56, Hardwick & Self)
• 1988: Barn Elms Reservoir (Surrey), a summer plumaged bird on May 16th (LBR 56, Hardwick & Self)
• 1989: King George V Reservoir (Essex), one from September 25th to October 6th (LBR 56, Hardwick & Self)

The specimen of the first record was among a collection sold in April 1852 and purchased by Frederick Bond "who traced it to the person who had received it in the flesh and stuffed it and fully satisfied himself of the truth of the statement" (Harting, 1866). The specimen is now in the British Museum.

London WWT

London Wetland Centre: LITTLE BITTERN, seen in middle reedbed channel in Wildside at 2:35pm (Martin Parker); a stunning adult male in breeding plumage! Seen to fly back into middle of reedbed at 17.30 (Martin Honey); seen twice from Wildside channels and then from Dulverton Hide between 15.00-17.00 - one photo on my blog courtesy of Joe Davison (Wendy Marks)

Gallions Reach

Great White Egret (Casmerodius albus) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Buzzard over the Rheidol valley Both buzzard and red kite find the rich and varied slopes of the Rheidol valley productive hunting grounds. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Falco subbuteo in Lasy Janowskie, Poland (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Red kite, Watlington Hill, Oxfordshire. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

English: Osprey (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Gallions Reach: My raptor list this spring: 2 OSPREY, 4 RED KITE, 4 HOBBY, 40+ BUZZARD and also i had a new bird for the site GREAT WHITE EGRET.And only the second record of CUCKOO.

Barnes

Today i had my second london lifer of the year with IBERIAN CHIFFCHAFF. 277

OTFORD

Today i did not have to wait to long for the ORIENTAL TURTLE DOVE which is a lifer for me.And also it's a 1st for london.

A 1ST FOR GALLIONS REACH

Great White Egret (Casmerodius albus) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I had a good morning today when i see gallions reach 1st great white egret which was flying upriver @8.35.

Gallions Reach

Today i found my first summer migrant of the year SAND MARTIN that just bombed straight through.

Gallions Reach

Last years guillemot

Glossy Ibis: Wikipedia

Rainham Marshes: Glossy Ibis circled 0930 then South 0938 over dartford Marsh. Selsdon Wood: Short-eared Owl, Common Buzzard (Roy Weller).

LONDON NEWS

Enfield Lock: Twite at 0935 south of Enfield Island Village circling overhead and continually calling for two minutes: then flew SSE down River Lea relief channel and across Pattypool Mead.Staines Reservoirs: juv Gannet on south basin 3.50, off SE at 3.59.Gallions Reach: 2 Short-eared Owl east @ 08.39, 1 ad Mediterranean Gull, 2 Swallow.

GALLIONS REACH

Today found my 1st GOLDEN PLOVER at Gallions.

TROUBLE @LONDON WWT

London Wetland Centre; 2 Firecrest - including a fem found dead yesterday. Regrettably this is my last post from this site after sixteen years of passionate recording. I have been bullied and humiliated out by the senior wardens. As many of you know, they care little for birds (unless they are pinioned or stuck in the revolting upcoming aviary) and even less for birdwatchers. Clearly all is not well at "the nation's favourite nature reserve" , indeed it is rotten to the core. I feel a campaign coming on... (R. Kaye) What's the problem? I'm a WWT member and SBS financial supporter. I never feel unwelcome at LWC? (S Enright) - This comes as no surprise as one time I was refused admission, despite being a fully paid up member - the reason? - because they were running a wedding reception!! - all they seem to care about is the money : ( (JR). Some problems pertaining to scarce and Schedule one breeding species may be found in the paper "The Breeding Birds of London Wetland Centre" published in the London Bird Report for 2013 (JW). I recognize the bullying culture (DM).

Rainham Marshes: Great White Egret.Stoke Newington Reservoirs: Yellow-browed Warbler.Swanscombe Marsh: Ring Ouzel.