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.
View from my office window looking down Lime Avenue.
A few attempts at capturing Green Woodpeckers (below)
Red crested Pochard/ Tufted Duck hybrid
Comments
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).