Here Monthly Bird Walks

The Friends run a fascinating series of two-hour bird-watching walks on the first Sunday of each month, except July to September (when breeding is over and leaf-cover makes bird spotting difficult), and January (when the walk switches to the second Sunday). Led by an experienced member of the local RSPB, the walks are FREE and begin at 10am from the Donnefield Avenue entrance to the Park. No need to book, just turn up and stay as long as you like! The pace is not too fast but comfortable shoes are a must and if you have binoculars, bring them with you.

There’s a wide variety of species to be seen in the Park, including a sizeable colony of Ring–necked Parakeets. These noisy and colourful imports from the Himalayan region of India have colonised areas of the park, particularly the Spinney and can now be seen throughout the Canons Park Estate.

Here is the latest report from our April 2018 bird walk, led by RSPB member Bob Husband.
Our walks took place between
Canons Park, Edgware, Middx. HA8 and
Seven Acre Lake, Edgware, Middx. HA8

Here are the birds that were spotted on the April walk:

In Canons Park:
Mallard - 4 in courtship flight
Lesser Black-backed Gull in flight
Feral Rock Dove e in flight
Stock Dove - pairs inc. singing
Wood Pigeon several inc. singing
Rose-ringed Parakeet several pairs
Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming
Green Woodpecker - seen & singing in Spinney
Jay
Magpie 3
Western Jackdaws
Carrion Crows
Blue Tit - pairs inc. singing  
Great Tit - pairs inc. singing
Coal Tit - singing
Long-tailed Tit - pair
 FIRECREST - Canons Drive end of the Spinney 12.15 & 13.25   Very active feeding.
Wren - singing
 Eurasian Nuthatch - 2 males singing, inc pair with female adding mud to nest hole near cemetery.
 TREE CREEPER (in same area as the Firecrest)
Starling - 2 in flight
Blackbird - singing
Song Thrush - singing
Mistle Thrush - singing, 2 on cricket pitch 
Robin
Dunnock
Pied Wagtail - male
Common Chaffinch - singing
Greenfinch - trilling
European Goldfinch - singing
 At the Basin Lake in Canons Drive 
Canada Goose - pair
Grey-lag Geese 3 inclding farmyard half white type
Mallard 2 males
Tufted Duck 6 pairs
Cormorant - 2
4 Common Moorhen
Black-headed Gull - first winter
Herring Gull in flighr
Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 in flight
Great Spotted Woodpecker - calling
Wood Pigeon
Ring-necked /Rose-ringed Parakeets (calling)
Western Jackdaws
Carrion Crow
Great Tit
Wren
Nuthatch - singing near Cormorant perched in tree
Robin
Goldfinch
(19 Bird species. Total all sites:37)
 SEVEN ACRE LAKE
(Viewed from gate only)
Canada Geese -pair
Moorhen
Coot - 3
Blue Tit - pair
 
 


Total Bird species onl all sites: 37



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