Bushy Park
I had a lunchtime walk around the Brewhouse Meadow at lunchtime. The Longford River has over-flowed and flooded areas of the meadows, attracting a good range of birds.
Common Buzzard: the regular bird flew into the wood nearest the Water Gardens.
Sparrowhawk: a male caused everything to panic.
Common Teal: 8 birds were on one of the floods.
Gadwall: 10 were feeding on the edge of the wood, where it was flooded.
Mandarin: 12 birds were feeding in an over-flowing ditch.
Wood Pigeon: 400+ were feeding on the ground in the meadow.
Great spotted Woodpecker: there were some territorial squabbles going on and 2 males were drumming.
Pied Wagtail: 6 were feeding on the edge of the floods.
Meadow Pipit: 2 flew west.
Redwing: 36 were widely scattered, a small group were trying to feed on Holly berries along Dukes Head Passage.
Reed Bunting: a male was feeding in one section of reeds.
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