There is a pair of Coal Tits in the Flower Walk. The female will come to your hand to be fed.
The male is still quite shy. He was singing as he flitted about in a tree.
A Long-Tailed Tit looked down from a tree beside the Long Water.
The Dunnock at the Lido restaurant stared at the camera. It runs around under the tables and is quite used to people.
Starlings bathed in the Serpentine.
A Great Spotted Woodpecker called from a treetop in the leaf yard.
A Magpie preened in a tree beside the Long Water.
There was a Peregrine on the barracks tower. I missed a more interesting picture of her on the very top of the tower enjoying the sunshine because she flew off before I could get close enough.
A Lesser Black-Backed Gull, a Common Gull and some Black-Headed Gulls perched together on the plastic buoys at the Lido.
A Moorhen ran along a chain by the bridge ...
... while a Great Crested Grebe mooched about in the water below.
A Mute Swan preened at the Lido. The gentle winter sunlight makes it much easier to take pictures of these brilliant white birds.
Two Gadwall drakes peacefully shared a patch of algae in the Italian Garden. You wouldn't see aggressive Mallard drakes doing this.
A Pochard browsed at the Vista.
A fox came out of the shrubbery near the Italian Garden ...
... and the younger of the two rabbits fed under the hedge by the Henry Moore sculpture.
The setting sun lit up the gold leaf on the Albert Memorial.
There is an American coinage I learned recently - to call something extremely beautiful 'lit'. The Albert Memorial picture is lit, in all senses of the word. The dazzling swan is lit, too.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't the Dunnock's expression looke a Little Owl?
The shy Coal Tit is so engaging, flitting around while he sings.
I had never heard of the expression 'lit' in that sense. The Urban Dictionary recognises it but is sceptical of its use.
DeleteI think that Dunnock is telling me to stop bothering it -- indeed like many a Little Owl.
I think it is American vernacular, and something only young people use. I learned the expression perusing a reddit subforum called "nature is lit" devoted to posting the most gorgeous pictures of nature.
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