Bird Life In The Hanger Hill Area In The 1960s
A Memory of Ealing.
I lived in Boileau Road from 1948 to 1962.
We heard the cuckoo every year.
In Hanger Vale Lane there were Tawny Owls, Woodpeckers, Spotted Flycatchers and Blackcaps. There was a wood where Thackeray Court now stands, the overgrown grounds of the Nuffield Nursing Home.
I visited the disused Fox Reservoir where I found woodcock, kestrels and warblers. Now it is the Fox Wood nature reserve.
There were allotments in Queens Drive where the girls' school is now. Here I used to see skylarks and whitethroats.
Magpies , Collared Doves and parakeets were absent then! I remember seeing my first Collared dove in Pitshanger Park in 1966 and having to send field notes to the London Bird Report.
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