Regent’s Park
Common Shelduck: pair possibly nesting on the Bandstand Island, area 7.
Great Black-backed Gull: a 3rd summer birds flew east at 6.40am.
Yellow-legged Gull: an adult and 2nd summer were present.
Common Sandpiper: after hearing what I thought was a distant common sand an hour later a bird flew from area 7 across to area 8.
Grey Wagtail: a pair were collecting food and flying off towards Baker Street.
Reed Warbler: 3 males were singing.
Common Whitethroat: 3 birds were seen, a male in area 31 and a pair in area 39.
Chiffchaff: 5 males were singing, probably because they had all reared their first broods.
Adult above and juvenile below
3rd summer Yellow-legged Gull
Common Sandpiper, my first flight shot of this species in the park.
The Swift below looks to have shorter stumpy wings, due to the bird raising his wings at the moment the picture was taken
Grey Wagtail male
A pair of Blackcaps visit the bird bath in my garden, to conserve water the bathe together.
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