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(Click for a review of the wildlife during, 2000 2001 2004 2005 2006 2007)
Common Buzzard: one adult soaring over Wanstead Flats, 5 September.
Sparrowhawk: single male and female sightings throughout the year over Wanstead. Breeding in Wanstead Park?
Hobby: one adult over Hermon Hill, Wanstead, 18 May.Adult over Sunshine Plain, nr Wake Valley Ponds, Epping Forest, 23 May.
Peregrine: one over Stratford Underground Station, 22 December; age/sex not discernable at range seen.
Green Woodpecker: peak spring count of six (three pairs?) in Wanstead Park, 11 April. At least one pair successfully bred at Gilbert's Slade, Snaresbrook, in June.
Great Spotted Woodpecker: peak count of three-four pairs in Wanstead Park, 11 April. A pair bred on Hermon Hill with three fledged young in May/June, another bred in Gilbert's Slade.; a young bird visited Capel Road garden to feed on 23 June (PF) photo
Pied Flycatcher: one adult male in oaks on Hermon Hill, 13 April; one female or immature briefly at same site on 9 Aug.
Chiffchaff: peak of 11 singing birds in Wanstead Park, 11 April.
Blackcap: five singing males in Wanstead Park, 11 April; one wintering male on Hermon Hill in Jan/Feb. One wintering female on St Margaret's Rd, Aldersbrook, Wanstead on 25 November.
House Sparrow: resident flock of 16+ birds on St Margaret's Rd, Aldersbrook, Wanstead, from September.
Wildfowl counts 2004:
Shoveler: Peak count of 87 on Eagle Pond, Snaresbrook, 26 January.
Gadwall: 45 in Wanstead Park, 14 March.
Ruddy Duck: pair in Wanstead Park, 11 April. NB. Pair reported
to have bred on Alexandra Lake later that summer could be the same birds.
(Bird records for 2004 courtesy of Steve Swaby)
Floating Pennywort Hydrocotyle ranunculoides : a patch of this very invasive plant was found in the Heronry Pond, Wanstead Park during the year. (PF and JC) It was subsequently removed during a WREN Group work party on 3 April. photo
New Zealand Pigmyweed Crassula helmsii was in flower and blanketing the shores of Alexandra Lake during August. photo
Flowering Quince Chaenomeles speciosa : in fruit by Sidney Road, Wanstead Flats, on 5 November (PF) photo
Stinking Iris Iris foetidissima : Identified a plant known since about 2000 as this species on 20 December (PF) photo
Common Wasp Vespulas vulgaris was seen in Capel Road garden, 22 April (PF) photo
Holly Blues were in flight in the second week of April. Again in August. photo
Small Whites were present in the second week of April.
Gatekeepers were occasional visitors during the second week of June and in the third and forth weeks were feeding on blackberries. photo
Speckled Woods were seen in the second week of June and became plentiful in the third and fourth weeks.
Purple Hairstreak : numbers were feeding on the fruits of a Pear tree in a Capel Road garden during the latter part of July into August. (PF) photo
American Signal Crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus : Found dead by Alexandra Lake on 24th August. It may be assumed - though is by no means certain - that this had come from the lake, perhaps taken by a gull. (PF) photo
Rhododendron Leafhopper Graphocephala fennahi : City of London Cemetery, 30 August 2004 photo
Blood-Vein Timandra griseata : on the Plain in Wanstead Park on 1st September (PF) photo
Yellow-tail Moth Euproctis similis : a caterpillar of this moth was found in my Capel Road garden on 29 September (PF) photo
Mottled Umber Erannis defoliaria : was found in Capel Road on 5 December (PF) photo
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