Ingrebourne Valley

[Eastside Urchin]

3/1/2008

Today i had an hour and a bit over hornchurch Country park(aka ingrebourne valley) in horrible conditions 2C,sleet and a bit breezy from the east

 

water rail,16 teal,12 mallard,10 shoveler,kestrel,pheasant, moorhen,coot,black head gull,lesser black back gull,herring gull, wood pigeon,collared dove,grey wagtail,pied wagtail,wren, robin,dunnock,blackbird,8 long tailed tits,4 blue tit,2 jay,magpie,2 jackdaw,2 carrion crow,1 starling,1 chaffinch, 1 greenfinch,4 brambling

[Eastside Urchin]

At rainham today 37 Barnacle geese,Slavonian Grebe,2 Kittiwakes,3 Little gulls,female goldeneye!

[Eastside Urchin]

Went to Ingrebourne Valley yesterday( monday 5/5/08)

Pretty horrible hour or so as the place was full of little scumbags on motor bikes and kids plastered and breakign things.I really fear for the future of this place unless the local council & police actually get hold of the reserve and do some thing with it.Which is a shame as some cracking birds have been recorded there but then again you tend to get these problems when you build a great big housing estate next to somehwere like that.Heres what i saw before i got fed up.

greylag & canada geese,3 grey heron,shelduck,6 gadwall,mallard,

sparrowhawk,kestrel,hobby,pheasant,moorhen,coot,lapwing,l,b b gull,herring gull,wood pigeon,collared dove,2 cuckoo,14 swift,swallow,g.s.woodpecker,green woodpecker,skylark,wren,blackbird,cettis warbler,sedge & reed warbler,lesser & common whitethroat,blue tit,great tit,magpie,jackdaw,carrion crow,starling,greenfinch & reed bunting

 

So as you can see the birds are there but unfortunatly so are the local scumbags,think i will stick to going over there in the mornings from now on

[Dagger03]

UM - where exactly is it?

[Eastside Urchin]

sorry dagger,i know its 3 months late but did you mean ingrebourne valley???

It is Hornchurch Country park,accessible from berwick pond road or station lane in hornchurch,going all the way down to the bend after the hospital,turning left and left at the end and in to a car park.

 

 

2 barn owls have been reported on the site in the last few days.

[Eastside Urchin]

visited ingrebourne valley for the first time in 3 months,what a joy it is to be there when the little oiks have put their motorbikes & scooters away for the winter.

firecrest,goldcrest,merlin,sparrowhawk

water rail,bullfinch,little egret were the main birds on site today!!!

[Eastside Urchin]

4 penduline tits at hornchurch cp on the extensive reed mace