Regent’s Park
Teal: one roosting on the Bandstand Island.
Shoveler: 9 birds feeding on the boating lake.
Mandarin: several birds nest prospecting along the Canal.
Waxwing: 35 flew east at 6.30am, could this be the last birds of the winter? Probably not, it just needs some time spent scanning the skies.
Blackcap: a male in the Holme this morning.
Jackdaw: one flew NW this morning.
Siskin: 15 in the Wetland Pen.
Reed Bunting: a male in the Wetland Pen.
Bushy Park
Teal: 7 on the scrape.
Mandarin Duck: 4 males and 2 females flew from the Canal Plantation.
Common Snipe: 2 feeding by one of the pools, one was flushed from the scrape later on.
Skylark: 10 south of Upper Lodge Road.
Reed Bunting: a male was by the Longford River.
Siskin: still good numbers in Canal Plantation.
No he is not sweating, it wasn’t that hot today.
Adult Grey Heron males in breed condition have bills the same colour as Zoom lollies.
This is a very attractive Dabchick
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6 (4♂ 2♀) Teal in Hanover Sanctuary area 1 at 07:55 having earlier been flushed from Wetland Pen scrape a32, 6 Redwing feeding under trees just N of Primrose Hill lookout a50 at dawn.
Ominously, many corvids are busy nest-building: the pair of Crows in the Longbridge Sanctuary a35 are now lining theirs.