Kestrel over Buck Hill

The local female Kestrel hovered over Buck Hill. I think she's always in the park, but we don't see her often as she hunts over a wide area.

It was too windy for the Little Owls, so no picture today.

A Mistle Thrush ate yew berries in a tree near Peter Pan. I haven't seen a Mistle Thrush in this area recently, so it's probably a winter migrant.

There was a Blackbird in the same tree, almost certainly a migrant as many of these are immature males still with dark bills and no yellow eye ring.

Just along the path, a Magpie nattered angrily at a Carrion Crow but was still shooed out of the tree.

A Jackdaw had won a bit of cake at the Dell restaurant and was eating it on the edge of the lake.

As they spread over the park and gain confidence, it seems that they are starting to raid tables. The very numerous Jackdaws in Richmond Park do this as a matter of course.

A Starling on an umbrella at the Lido restaurant shone in the sunlight.

Mark Williams took this fine picture of feeding Starlings at the Round Pond.

A Chaffinch stared out from a bush in the Flower Walk. It took a pine nut from the ground.

A Robin was ticking at something behind the leaf yard.

A Cormorant under the marble fountain by the Italian Garden was harried by Black-Headed Gulls eager to try to grab any fish it caught. It left.

Two female ducks for a change: a Gadwall in the Italian Garden ...

... and a Shoveller at the Vista.

There was a fair number of these feeding together on the Long Water.

The lavender in the Rose Garden is still attracting plenty of insects, including several Common Carder bees ...

... and a hoverfly which I think is Syrphus ribesii.