Regent’s Park
Wood Warbler: a stunning individual showed well in areas 31 and 34 this morning. It or another bird may have been glimpsed mid afternoon by the lake in area 33 feeding amongst a melee of other warblers.
Pied Flycatcher: one was found in area 33 while trying to locate this mornings Wood Warbler. Which as mentioned above was probably here as well.
Garden Warbler: 4 birds were in the same locations as the above.
Lesser Whitethroat: 2 birds were in area 31 this morning.
Common Whitethroat: 2 birds in area 31.
Blackcap: at least 6 present, though they were not really counted.
Reed Warbler: 4 birds in area 32.
Willow Warbler: at least 20 in the area surrounding the NE end of the lake.
Chiffchaff: 25 in the same area as above.
Common Swift: 2 birds early morning.
Yellow-legged Gull: an adult was on the lake.
Shoveler: 3 on the lake.
Bushy Park
Hobby: several sightings over the Brewhouse Meadows.
Sparrowhawk: adults are still carrying food into the Woodland Gardens.
Garden Warbler: 2 birds were in the scrub at the park end of Dukes Head Passage.
Common Whitethroat: 2 present in the scrub.
Blackcap: 8 birds present in the same area.
Willow Warbler: 8 birds present here also.
Chiffchaff: 10 present.
Goldfinches: 50+ in the meadow area.
Comments
Did today's Pied Flycatcher have obvious white on the wing feathers? I had a 'possible' yesterday in a shady pine in the Cricket Pen just before I connected with the Spot Fly but the wings as seen from behind were no whiter than the latter's - I've read that some juvenile female PFs can have buffy rather than clear-white margins on their tertials.