Regent’s Park
Common Whitethroat: what could be the male that has summered here for the last two years is back in the Cricket Pen, area 31.
Willow Warbler: six birds were singing around the park.
Bushy Park male Common Whitethroat
Bushy Park
Common Shelduck: a pair were on the Heron Pond.
Northern Wheatear: one was just south of the Heron Pond.
Lesser Whitethroat: one was singing quietly 100 meters north of Dukes Head Passage.
Common Whitethroat: two males were in scrub close to Dukes Head Passage.
Willow Warbler: four birds were singing alongside the Longford River.
Linnet: one flew west.
Comments
Ground now saturated, with small patches of standing water in places - what a change from three weeks ago, when the ground had been baked rock-hard by several weeks of near-uninterrupted sunshine.
Birding in the open ground of area 37 is becoming more interesting, as birds flock to gobble up the ground invertebrates forced to the surface by all the rain.
Northern Wheatear 1f - Open Spaces, area 37 at 07.25.
Kestrel 1m - feeding on ground at SE end of area 37 at daybreak, 05.45.
Dozens of Carrion Crows and Herring Gulls, with several Lesser Black-backed Gulls among them, feeding in area 37 throughout the early morning.
Reed Bunting 1m - singing in area 32 at 07.10.
Willow Warbler 4 - areas 2 (two birds, one singing), 14 and 31.
(I couldn't find the Common Whitethroat in area 31 at 07.00.)
:)