Regent’s Park
Not as lively as I had hoped, but then again the skies overnight had been clear.
Greenshank: one called three times as it flew NW over area 8 at 7.50am. I only had a the briefest of views as it flew between The Holme and Heron Island.
Hobby: a bird flew east at 7.45am.
Reed Warbler: two in area 32.
Common Whitethroat: one in area 31.
Garden Warbler: two singles, in area 31 and 35.
Blackcap: six birds in area 31 and 32.
Willow Warbler: at least twelve in areas 31 and 32.
Chiffchaff: six birds in the same areas as the above.
Richmond Park:
I took my wife for a mid morning stroll, enjoying a nice sausage baguette and an ice cream. Bird life was quiet, although I wasn’t really looking that hard.
Common Tern: an adult and the two juveniles were on the overflow by the causeway. Another adult flew in but was chased away.
Northern Wheatear: one was on a mound of soil where the bracken had just been rolled by the Shire Horses.
Kestrel by area 31.
Comments
Muggy with hazy high cloud and light S breeze. Only one warbler seen in the Cricket Pen, area 31 (they mowed the grass in there just after dawn a couple of days ago) and none around the Leaf Yard Wood, area 40/41 but they were widely scattered elsewhere.
Garden Warbler 1 (with tit flock in area 35 at 07:20).
Reed Warbler 1 (on Hanover Island, area 1 at 07:05).
Willow Warbler 6 (one on Hanover Island, area 1 at 07:05; three in area 35 at 07:20, one in Cricket Pen at 07:35, one in area 20 at 08:05).
Chiffchaff 4 (one on Hanover Island, area 1 at 07:05, one in area 35 at 07:20; one calling in area 10 at 07:35; one in area 17 at 07:50).