Friday, 26 February 2021
Thursday, 25 February 2021
A Dunnock sang beside the Long Water. Usually they are shy birds, and it's most unusual to be able to get so close to one.
There were several Greenfinches a few yards away.
This is the pair of Long-Tailed Tits in the Rose Garden that are starting a nest in the euonymus bush you can see at the end of this clip. The leaves are too dense for the nest to be seen, but there are plenty of views of them flying around. The bird in the climbing rose was looking for cobwebs.
A pair of Jackdaws were making a racket around a hole in a plane tree in the Dell, where evidently they are planning to nest.
It's unusual to see a Carrion Crow with a ring. I reported the number to the BTO, just to see who is bothering to ring crows.
Both the Peregrines were on the tower. They have been here on most days recently, rather than their other daytime place on the Metropole Hilton hotel.
The Grey Herons' nest with the chick in it is now surrounded by blossom. I didn't get a sight of the chick.
The pigeon-eating Lesser Black-backed Gull is looking smarter than ever. His legs are now orange rather than yellow, the most intense colour I've ever seen on one of the species.
A young Herring Gull was poking busily into the space between plastic buoys at the Lido. It may have been trying to unpick the rope.
As soon as the Coots leave the nest on the post at Peter Pan, one or another Black-Headed Gull swims over and starts probing it for insects.
The pair of Great Crested Grebes were still hanging around the Coot nest under the willow by the bridge.
A pair of Mute Swans started to build a nest on the Serpentine island, pulling twigs and bits of debris into a rough heap.
The male Mute Swan that is being pursued by the Black Swan seemed to be on quite civil terms with it today -- easier than having to keep swimming away with this relentless creature following.
The repaired swan island in the Long Water had Canada Geese on it ...
... then a variety of birds -- everything except the swans, which so far are showing no interest in it at all.