• Birds heard vocalising in February

Feb 13h

Essex: Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming in a Horse Chestnut, Purfleet-on-Thames. Common Sandpiper calling in flights along the River Thames, Purfleet.

Feb 9th

Essex: Goldcrest singing, North Stifford. Two Blackcaps singing from edge of an old chalk quarry, Grays.

• Birds heard vocalising in January

Jan 23rd

London: Coal Tit calling, Ridgmount Gardens, Blommsbuty.

Jan 16th

Purfleet-on-Thames: 3 Blackcaps subsinging.

Jan 12th

London: Robin singing and Grey Wagtail calling in flight, St. Paul's Cathedral.

Jan 6th

Rainham Marshes: Redwing, Rook, Jackdaw, Canada Goose, Skylark (singing), Great Black-backed Gull, Dunlin.

Jan 5th

London: Great Tit singing West Ham station; Goldcrest singing, Bedford Square, Bloomsbury.

Jan 3rd

Benfleet Creek-Two Tree Island: Feral Pigeon, Green Sandpiper, Greylag Goose, Brent Goose, Wigeon, Jack Snipe, Fieldfare, Wren, Curlew.

Jan 1st

East Tilbury Marshes: Ring-necked Parakeet, Long-tailed Tit, Green Woodpecker, Blue Tit, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Wood Pigeon, Lapwing, Coot, Reed Bunting, Redshank, Cetti's Warbler, Stonechat, Skylark, Oystercatcher, Rock Pipit, Meadow Pipit, Teal, Mallard.

Tilbury Docks-Tilbury Fort: Water Pipit, Chaffinch, Carrion Crow, Black-headed Gull, Herring Gull, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Magpie.

Tilbury: Dunnock, Song Thrush, Great Tit, Collared Dove, House Sparrow, Robin, Starling, Pied Wagtail.