Bushy Park
Red crested Pochard: 7 drakes were vying for the attention of 2 ducks on Heron Pond this morning.
Mandarin: a flock of 8 flew over the Woodland Gardens.
Red Kite: one showed very well at 9.30am below tree top height as it was mobbed by a crow over the paddock by Lime Avenue.
Lapwing: one was in the gymkhana field at 8.00am.
Fieldfare: 22 landed in trees along Dukes Head Passage.
Redwing: still present in good numbers.
Siskin: 40+ in the Woodland Gardens near the Longford River.
There was no sign of last Fridays Firecrest or Siberian Chiffchaff.
The view I had this morning were this good but I had no camera and the light was atrocious. The bird looking more like this as it headed of to the south-east on exactly the same line as last weeks bird. Could it be that there is a bird present locally?
This photo was taken last year in the Chilterns
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1 Raven (2nd Park record) S 07:55, 7 Redwing & 1 Fieldfare both at SE corner of Hill playing field just after dawn.
The Raven showed its relatively long, narrow, wedge-shaped tail well while circling on fixed wings like a Buteo at medium height over the Park playing fields (area 37) briefly before continuing swiftly S on a similar flight path to the one Dave had on 15 April last year. While viewing its classic 'double-pointed' flight profile I felt a pang of nostalgia for the Olde Countrye (Canada) but it soon passed. :)
Black-headed and Common Gull numbers have slightly increased lately (400+ and 40+ respectively over the past two days).