Diurnal bird movement over Regent's Park

Regent's Park bird passage


The light in the morning has been very varied





30th October 06.30am to 12.30pm (not continuous)

Species              
Total
Species
Cormorant
25
2 high flying flocks that at first we thought were wild geese
Common Buzzard
1
Flew NE at 1.10pm
Sparrowhawk
3

Peregrine Falcon
3

Kestrel
2

GBB Gull
2

Wood Pigeon
1200
There movement had almost dried up by 11.30am
Skylark
3

Meadow Pipit
2

Pied Wagtail
7

Grey Wagtail
3

Fieldfare
550

Mistle Thrush
26

Ring Ouzel
1
Flew NW at 7.50am
Blackbird
1

Redwing
620

Song Thrush
6

Starling
160

Hawfinch
1
Flew NW at 6.50am
Bullfinch
1
Female flew NW at 11.40 am
Brambling

Male landed briefly in Horse Chestnut tree 7.40am
Chaffinch


Goldfinch


Lesser Redpoll


Siskin







This is the flock of Lesser Redpoll arriving just before sunrise


A flock of 25 Lesser Redpolls dropped in, this is possibly the largest feeding flock ever recorded in the park.





Fieldfare (above and below)



Cormorants at a great distance at first looked like a flock of wild geese, they tend to fly in a less regimented formations.


Fieldfare look as if they could interfere with the planes circling London


Chaffinch female heading north west



Redwings (above) Fieldfare (below)




Fieldfare passing over ZSL.

31st October 06.30am to 12.30pm (not continuous)


         Species
 Total
Notes
Short-eared Owl
1
One flew north 9.00am, it was stooped on by a
Peregrine at 9.05 over Barrow Hill Res
Peregrine Falcon
1
female
Sparrowhawk
1

Kestrel
2

Meadow Pipit
2

Pied Wagtail
9

Grey Wagtail
3

Mistle Thrush
6

Fieldfare
630

Blackbird
7
singles
Song Thrush
1

Redwing
260

Starling
890
Including I flock of over 800 birds heading NW
Hawfinch
3
NW at 6.35am, NW at 10.40, NW at 11.55 in front of 53 Fieldfares
Brambling
2
With Chaffinches at 8.10am and 10.25am
Bullfinch
2
Flew NW at 6.55am
Chaffinch
270

Goldfinch
35

Greenfinch
1

Lesser Redpoll
6

Siskin
4












Wood Pigeons tend to head south west, sometimes dropping off but never staying to long due to the public footfall through the park.



Fieldfare resting briefly


Redwing (above and below) normally they utter their distinctive flight call. Over the past three days most species have been fairly quiet.



The photo above shows Fieldfare and Chaffinches heading north west and Wood Pigeons heading south west.



Blackbirds tend to move on their own.



Starlings heading west a short time after a flock of 800 passed low over the park.







1st November 06.30 to 11.00am

Unfortunately I was away from Regent's Park this morning so missed the opportunity of getting record shots of one of the Hawfinches as it circled above the Open spaces. The Ring Ouzel would also have been another photo opportunity as it passed overhead.  


     Species
 Total
Notes
Wood Pigeon
300

Collared Dove
1
Flew south west at 9.24am.
Skylark
5

Meadow Pipit
1

Grey Wagtail
2

Blackbird
5

Ring Ouzel
1
A male flew north west at 9.25am.
Fieldfare
120

Redwing
11

Song Thrush
3

Starling
240

Hawfinch
2
One flew NW at 8.20am, followed 20 minutes
later by the second bird.
Chaffinch
140

Brambling
1
Flew NW at 7.00am.
Bullfinch
1
Flew east at 10.20am.
Goldfinch
15

Siskin
2

Lesser Redpoll
4








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