East India Man

Ring Ouzel, Greenwich Peninsula, 7/5/2012 Oystercatcher, Greenwich Peninsula, 7/5/2012 ...

It was absolutely freezing this morning, a nasty northerly cutting right through me as I had optimistically dressed for an early May mornin...

May already and still no Sand Martin at the basin, other people have noticed the non-appearance of this species so something is clearly goi...

Wheatear at Bow Creek Ecology Park, 30/4/2012 Crayford Marshes, 30/4/2012                                      ...

The uneasy marriage between myself and the lower Lea took an almighty step towards divorce this morning, driving rain on a robust easterly ...

The unsettled weather continues to play havoc with the spring migration, it has rained heavily and for prolonged periods every day for the ...

Predated Mallard and Moorhen eggs, Bow Creek Ecology Park, April 2012 The unsettled weather continues, putting the kib...

Two necessarily brief vists this weekend, each producing a yeartick, Willow Warbler on Saturday, two at the basin and one in the ecology pa...

Black-tailed Godwit at Gallions Reach, 8/4/12 Black-tailed Godwits at Galltons Reach, 8/4/12 High...

Common Teal at East India Dock Basin, 6/4/2012 It's almost the end of the first week of April and still no Sand Ma...

Now that British Summer Time is here and the days are getting longer, post-work visits to the patch are possible. I was hoping the overnigh...

I can't remember a year when I have not seen Little Ringed Plover in March, that record was under threat so I had to give it a go this ...

There has been some really fine weather over the last few days, but Saturday dawned with a very dense cold fog enveloping the patch, a remi...

Gadwall at Bow Creek, 17/3/2012 Long-tailed Tit nest at Bow Creek Ecology Park, 17/3/2012 A short burst of onomatopoeic son...

There was a real spring feel to the patch today, many of the Blackthorns in the northern scrub have a fuzz of blossom and other trees inclu...

Oystercatchers at Gallions Reach, 26/2/2012 Black-tailed Godwits at Gallions Reach, 26/2/2012 ...

Lapwing at Bow Creek, 12/2/2012 I was on the patch just after dawn this morning hoping to refind ye...

A mid-morning visit to the patch at low tide produced nothing of note, this state of the tide can be very unproductive so I decided to retu...

Pintail at East India Dock Basin, 9/2/2012 Greylag Geese at East India Dock Basin, 9/2/2012 ...

A few images of the patch during the snow, 5/2/2012 I had just finished stocking up the feeding station at the b...

The freezing weather has finally arrived and not before time; the basin is completely frozen and with the high tides below the requisite 6....

It's not been a classic January, too warm for that, but hopefully the forecast of cold weather for the next week or so will still be abl...

High tide at Bow Creek today was just before noon, at 6.5 metres it was just about high enough to put some much needed water into the basin...

Apart from a Great Spotted Woodpecker seen by Gary, today was pretty much a rerun of yesterday, when I arrived Gary had just finished a 90 ...

The mild weather has meant that the yearlist is building slowly, the only addition this weekend was a flyover Meadow Pipit that was heard o...

My personal best count of circa 40 Linnets mentioned in a previous post has grown to double that number and now constitutes a new site reco...

Cormorant at East India Dock Basin, 7/1/2012 No Kestrels were recorded at the lower Lea during the la...

Orchard Wharf, a disused gravel processing works lies immediately east of the basin; it was decommissioned in late 1997 and the following s...

The unseasonably mild weather has continued into the new year making for a fairly uneventful visit to the lower Lea. The most obvious speci...

The Reed Bunting is a bit of an enigma at the Lower Lea, some winters it is very obvious and easy to find, others it takes on a wraithl...

Pintail at Bow Creek, 17/12/2011, the female from last year returning for its second winter. Long-tailed Tit at Bow Creek, 17/12...

Roosting Redshank with two Common Teal Bow Creek Ecology Park, 10/12/11. A Cormorant takes advantage of engineering works on the Docklands L...

A late start today to coincide with high tide; Dave Morrison has again organised a co-ordinated count of all the wader roosts within the Lon...

East India Dock Basin looking west, 20:11:2011 Common Sandpiper and Common Gull at Bow Creek, 20:11:2011 Greylag Goose at East India Dock Ba...

As has been mentioned on previous posts visible migration can be something of a hit and miss affair at the Lower Lea and today's session...

I arrived at the patch shortly after dawn this morning for a planned visible migration session; it started off promisingly enough with three...

Fieldfare at Bow Creek Ecology Park, 22/10/2011 Carrion Crows at Bow Creek Ecology Park, 22/10/2011 The sluices on the lock have been lowere...

I managed a very brief pre-work visit from dawn this morning and immediately got on to a flock of 60 Woodpigeon moving west closely followed...