If only, so back to reality.
Regent’s Park
Nothing to report that hasn’t been present for the past few days. So here are some pictures of life in the park today.
Some Heron young are almost a month old now, but in the most watchable nest the first chick has hatched.
Nest sites for grebes are in short supply, this bird is on his was back to usher off some Coots. He also has other more interesting things on his mind.
When drake Mallards gang up on a female they can end up drowning them or leaving them badly injured. I have never known Red crested Pochards to be as brutal, though it does look a bit over the top.
The duck managed to get away uninjured.
Bar-headed Goose, one of five that return each spring.
Mandarins in the Wetland Pen
Blackcap in the Wetland reed bed
Chiffchaff in The Leaf Yard Wood, area 40
Comments
Shelduck 4 (2 pr)
Shoveler 2 (1 pr)
(No Gadwall visible at 7.00pm)
For just a brief second I thought no?
Black-headed Gull 1 (in full summer plumage
No Shovelers or Gadwall on the lake this morning.
Chiffchaff 5: areas 1, 14, 19, 31, 40.
Blackcap 4: areas 10, (N border of Regent's College), 31, 40, 42 (near Outer Ring)
London clay has been baked rock-hard by the sun - to the point of cracking open -in exposed places. Early daffodils wilting fast but fuschia about to bloom.