Regent's Park February 2020.
Yet another month of relatively mild weather with periods of heavy rain and showers with the odd sunny day. This meant that finding new birds for the year was difficult. In fact the only new sightings were a fly over Meadow Pipit and a female Reed Bunting was in the Wetland Pen on 23rd and maybe still present, on the 24th a male Stonechat spent the day in the Triangle Pen. Apart from that a Firecrest has been seen briefly in area 19 on a couple of occasions and heard calling in the grounds of the Open Air Theatre, a small group of Redwings are roaming the NW corner of the park and at least 8 Blackcaps are in the park, 5 being in Queen Mary's Gardens.
Below are some of the pictures that I managed to take that month
Stonechat
Yet another month of relatively mild weather with periods of heavy rain and showers with the odd sunny day. This meant that finding new birds for the year was difficult. In fact the only new sightings were a fly over Meadow Pipit and a female Reed Bunting was in the Wetland Pen on 23rd and maybe still present, on the 24th a male Stonechat spent the day in the Triangle Pen. Apart from that a Firecrest has been seen briefly in area 19 on a couple of occasions and heard calling in the grounds of the Open Air Theatre, a small group of Redwings are roaming the NW corner of the park and at least 8 Blackcaps are in the park, 5 being in Queen Mary's Gardens.
Below are some of the pictures that I managed to take that month
Reed Bunting
By the end of the month at least 5 Herons nest had chicks of various ages.
By the end of the month waterfowl numbers dropped rapidly.
The female Kestrel wasn't that worried when the female Sparrowhawk landed behind her. She carried on stretching her wings and preening.
Great crested Grebe's looking different one on a blustery day and the other on a calm warm sunny February day.
Moorhens are tidy little birds and at the moment I have 2 coming and going in my garden.
The Great spotted Woodpecker and the 4 species of tit enjoy probing for crushed peanuts in crevices on this fallen branch.
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