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Sue and I met up this morning to get the 2016 list started. The Prof had made a head start on us and had already got the female stonechat that Sue later picked out. The horseshoe thicket was alive with goldcrests and song thrushes. A siskin was heard over the raptor hill. The rear paddocks held a small flock of linnet. 

We bumped into Mike in the WaterWorks. A peregrine falcon perched in a pylon before gliding off towards the ex pitch and putt field. A common snipe flew out of bed 18 and three lesser redpoll fed in birches.

A small flock of around ten meadow pipit were on the ex pitch and putt field and three jackdaw were in leyton tip.

A respectable 61 birds in total were seen between the four of us.

61. Common Gull (1-Jan)

60. Lesser Redpoll (1-Jan)

59. Siskin (1-Jan)

58. Linnet (1-Jan)

57. Collared Dove (1-Jan)

56. Great Spotted Woodpecker (1-Jan)

55. Goldcrest (1-Jan)

54. House Sparrow (1-Jan)

53. Green Woodpecker (1-Jan)

52. Meadow Pipit (1-Jan)

51. Peregrine Falcon (1-Jan)

50. Kingfisher (1-Jan)

49. Grey Wagtail (1-Jan)

48. Cetti's Warbler (1-Jan)

47. Common Snipe (1-Jan)

46. Grey Heron (1-Jan)

45. Pochard (1-Jan)

44. Great Crested Grebe (1-Jan)

43. Stonechat (1-Jan)

42. Canada Goose (1-Jan)

41. Greylag Goose (1-Jan)

40. Egyptian Goose (1-Jan)

39. Little Egret (1-Jan)

38. Robin (1-Jan)

37. Great Tit (1-Jan)

36. Chiffchaff (1-Jan)

35. Little Grebe (1-Jan)

34. Song Thrush (1-Jan)

33. Mute Swan (1-Jan)

32. Rose-ringed Parakeet (1-Jan)

31. Blue Tit (1-Jan)

30. Long-tailed Tit (1-Jan)

29. Jackdaw (1-Jan)

28. Greater Black-backed Gull (1-Jan)

27. Lesser Black-backed Gull (1-Jan)

26. Shelduck (1-Jan)

25. Greenfinch (1-Jan)

24. Kestrel (1-Jan)

23. Goldfinch (1-Jan)

22. Pied Wagtail (1-Jan)

21. Starling (1-Jan)

20. Mistle Thrush (1-Jan)

19. Cormorant (1-Jan)

18. Chaffinch (1-Jan)

17. Shoveler (1-Jan)

16. Gadwall (1-Jan)

15. Tufted Duck (1-Jan)

14. Moorhen (1-Jan)

13. Coot (1-Jan)

12. Sparrowhawk (1-Jan)

11. Dunnock (1-Jan)

10. Wren (1-Jan)

9. Teal (1-Jan)

8. Mallard (1-Jan)

7. Blackbird (1-Jan)

6. Wood Pigeon (1-Jan)

5. Magpie (1-Jan)

4. Pigeon (1-Jan)

3. Carrion Crow (1-Jan)

2. Black-headed Gull (1-Jan)

1. Herring Gull (1-Jan)

GH - @leevalleybirder

SH - @suzehu

PW@birdingprof

Mike M

Flushing Meadows

I went down to the old pitch and putt course next to the WaterWorks in the hope of finding Skylark (as the place seems to have developed into ideal habitat for them), or possibly even a Little Owl.

Neither were there. I did flush a flock of around twenty Meadow Pipit, while I walked through the meadow. And then I flushed a Mike M, who pointed me in the direction of two Goldcrest.

Went into the WaterWorks and flushed two Kingfisher - oddly in the filter bed with the board walk.

I spent a bit of time trying to photograph the tit flocks, before heading over to the paddocks to find our Little Egret with an identity crisis was still mooching about, trying to work out if he's a horse, magpie or fieldfare.

GH @leevalleybirder

Mute Swan

Meadow Pipit meadow

Long-tailed Tit

Little Egret

Spot the Little Egret