But looking back over the Autumn it was an exceptional period of time to be birding on Wanstead Flats, I personally added four patch ticks, all of which were real quality birds and wouldn't have looked out of place at the likes of Dungeness, Landguard or Portland - sometimes it's easy to forget where exactly the patch is situated, this is not some coastal peninsula but an urban piece of greenery in an highly populated part of East London with a few football pitches, a small lake, an ornamental pond, a couple copse's and pockets of long grass - but boy oh boy on its day it can give any of those big three locations a run for their money.
Those magic Autumn four...
7th September
Ortolan Bunting
8th October
Yellow-browed Warbler
8th October
White-fronted Geese
29th October
Great Grey Shrike