Wandsworth Common

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-Wandsworth Common is a fairly typical London Park, around a mile long and 0.3 miles wide. It is cut by a number of roads and a railway line and contains new-build housing, sports facilities and a restaurant. The main habitat is grassland (regularly mown) interspersed with trees. There is a also a complex of very small ponds.
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-The common has a pretty limited number of species.
-In summer it supports 3-5 singing Chiffchaffs, 1 (sometimes 2) singing Willow Warbler, 2-3 singing Blackcaps, and occasional Whitethroat (in three of the last five years).
-Other breeding birds include: Mute Swan, Mallard, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Mistle Thrush, Blackbird, Song Thrush. Woodpeckers do not breed but Great Spotted Woodpecker are regularly seen during post-breeding dispersal.
-Hard winter weather increases the number of duck with additional Tufted, Pochard and Shoveler.
-Kestrels are usually the only birds of prey, although Sparrowhawks are an occasional fly-over.
-Details of 2006 records can be found here: [[Wandsworth Common 2006]].