26th February

For me the day was not much different to yesterday, so a chance to practice using the camera.

However a pair of Blackcaps were seen in the Cricket Pen, area 31.

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Common Pochard, though common in Regent’s Park not that widespread in the UK and it looks great in the right light and posture. Red crested Pochard below.

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Grey lag Goose dropping in, noisy b----- thing, likewise the bird below.

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Cormorants have been using the Heron Island (area 8) as a roost site for the past 15 years. The trees are becoming heavily white washed and likely to die in the not to distant future as happens at typical roost and nest sites.

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Magpie is the second most numerous member of the corvid family in the park while the high flying Rook below is the rarest of the commoner UK members. Bright crisp days in February are the types of day when this species can occur.

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Stock Dove

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The LBB Gull with a growth on it’s head (above) was photographed last March and is back again still in the same plumage.

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And then the sun came out

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In coming and out going Herons

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Comments

Pete Woodruff said…
Made good use of the camera today Tony with some very nice shots to see here, the drake Pochard at the top is particularly attractive.
Thanks Pete, there aren't many species of duck where the drakes don't look fine in breeding plumage.
birdman_euston said…
27 Feb: Drake redhead Smew seen roosting again on the north shore of Heron Island. Wintering flock of 10 starlings still present in Area 40.

28 Feb: No sign of yesterday's Smew. At 08.30 a flock of 25 Goldfinches (the largest group I've seen in the Park) was feeding on last year's (goldenrod?) seed heads in the small, fenced-off part of Area 40 (the part that has a stainless-steel gate lashed to the black iron fence). Pair of Little Grebes regularly feeding near the reed beds at Long Bridge. They are noisy and energetic so despite their small size, they don't seem to get bullied as much as the far larger but more docile Moorhens by the ubiquitous Coots.
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