7th November

Bushy Park

Common Teal: 5 again on the Brew House field ponds.

Red crested Pochard/Tufted Duck hybrid: a drake was on Heron Pond>

Common Buzzard: the bird is still present in the Brew House fields area.

Meadow Pipit: 34 some feeding in the bracken, others flew west.

Fieldfare: 275 flew through in small flocks of around 20 birds.

Redwing: slightly fewer than the above with 240 recorded.

Goldcrest: 10 birds feeding in the hawthorns and bracken by Hawthorn Cottage.

Meally Redpoll: a pair were in a Willow by Heron Pond, but before I was able to get slightly closer they headed off.

Lesser Redpoll: 16 birds seen in small groups in and over the Woodland Gardens.

Siskin: 18 birds over.

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View from my office window looking down Lime Avenue.

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A few attempts at capturing Green Woodpeckers (below)

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Red crested Pochard/ Tufted Duck hybrid

Comments

Hawfinch !!! Fantastic !!
birdman_euston said…
8 Nov:
Grounded migrants/winter residents -

1 ♂ Firecrest (wildlife pen in Avenue Gardens behind shelter, area 12 at 11:15 - wouldn't it be nice if it's the bird first seen on 11 October).

1 Fieldfare (feeding on slope below Primrose Hill lookout for second day).

1 ♀ Wigeon ('new' off NE tip of Heron Island, area 8).

23 Shoveler (more than double yesterday's number).

1 Chiffchaff (birch saplings in area 36 for third time in a week).

3 Pied Wagtail (often found on the restaurant level of The Hub at first light before flying toward the zoo).

3 Eurasian Siskin (my first confirmed sightings (!), in areas 9 and 39).

1 Lesser Redpoll (Cricket Pen, area 41).
There is a very good chance that it is that bird, but there were lots in the country a few weeks back.