• Canada goose - 3pr with 6 juvs of varying maturity
• mallard - 1 male
• pheasant - 7
• sparrowhawk - 1
• buzzard - 1 heard
• kestrel - 2
• moorhen - 3
• oystercatcher - 1 pr & a single
• lapwing - 2
• curlew - single bird at top end of the valley and a family of 5 near the flash
• black-headed gull - 2
• lesser-black backed gull - c15 over
• stock dove 1
• woodpigeon - 6
• magpie - 4
• rook - 5
• carrion crow - c 60 in freshly mowed field
• raven - 2 birds soaring in distance
• blue tit - 3
• great tit - 3
• coal tit - 2
• skylark - 8
• sand martin - min 7 at small colony on stream bank at Buckhurst
• swallow - c30
• willow warbler - c30
• blackcap - 3
• whitethroat - 3
• sedge warbler - singing bird and probably at least 2 other birds at Buckhurst
• wren - c15
• blackbird - 6
• song thrush - 1
• mistle thrush - 1
• robin - 4
• stonechat - 1 juv
• dunnock - 3
• grey wagtail - a single & a family party
• pied wagtail
• meadow pipit - c 10
• chaffinch - 6
• greenfinch - 6
• goldfinch - 7
• linnet - 5
• redpoll 2
• bullfinch - 1
• reed bunting - 3

cheers Kevin & John Hallsworth