One of the Song Thrushes by the Rudolf Steiner bench beside the Long Water, not seen for some time, appeared in a bush.
The male Little Owl at the Speke obelisk came out his hole to enjoy the sunshine.
The female Peregrine fluffed herself up on the tower.
A Chaffinch in the Flower Walk stared at the camera.
The tatty Blue Tit was expecting to be fed.
A Long-Tailed Tit at the Vista waited for the rest of the flock to arrive so that they could cross the gap together.
A Magpie perched in the next tree, an American red oak.
Starlings collected to pick up spilt food at the Lido restaurant.
A young Grey Heron at the island called to its parent a few yards away, not really expecting to be fed any more, and then got on with looking for a fish.
The Cormorants are getting seriously overcrowded. At Peter Pan there was no more room on the posts and two had to stand on the chain.
A Great Crested Grebe fished under the bridge.
The Moorhen family at the Vista were out looking for food.
A Shoveller drake's green secondary feathers shone in the sunlight.
They are quiet ducks and only call occasionally. A female raised her voice for a moment, then the pair got back to feeding.
A question for readers. Someone is trying to make a video of a flyway used by Rose-Ringed Parakeets when they are going to their roosting place. Usually these flyways are quite narrow routes so you can get good film of a lot going over together. I think there may be a suitable place in the rea between Richmond Park or Wimbledon Common and Kingston. Can anyone offer a suggestion?
Best flyway would be the western wall of Wormwood Scrubs Prison around dusk. There is a channel between the wall and the houses on Braybrook Street that sees literaly thousands of parakeets as they return to their roost on the Scrubs close to the Old Oak Community and Childrens Centre.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much. That sounds ideal. I will pass it on.
DeleteIf one enjoys feeling dizzy, then watching the shovellers at it is quite the experiience!
ReplyDeleteIt makes me so glad that the tatty Blue Tit clings to life so ferociously. Other than its tatty plumage, it looks like a healthy enough bird, right?
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There must be something very special about the inner ears of Shovellers and other revolving birds such as Phalaropes.
DeleteI don't know what's wrong with the tatty Blue Tit. It's been around for a while and always looks like that, but in other respects it seems quite normal.
Nice to see the Song Thrush. Over the last couple of weeks I've been struggling to see any species of thrush. Did see a couple of Song Thrush in flight a couple of weeks back. We have good numbers of breeding Song Thrush around here. Only one Blackbird in this time which was on Poor's Field, Ruislip Woods.
ReplyDeleteSome observers have had Redwing over, but not me yet.
Hopefully numbers of the resident thrush will turn up soon!
I haven't seen any migrant thrushes of any kind here yet. But when the weather turns nasty in Europe they should start arriving.
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