A sunny day started the Song Thrush at the Diana memorial fountain singing in a treetop, and now there was another nearby answering it, though this was invisible in the bushes.
There was a male Blackbird at the other end of the bridge, though he was silent. Blackbirds are much less likely to sing out of season even on sunny days.
The park was crowded and it took some time for the small birds to turn up in the Rose Garden, but eventually the usual Robin ...
... some Blue Tits ...
... and one of the Coal Tit pair arrived for their daily pine nuts.
The Robin at the southwest corner of the bridge is always watching and now comes out immediately and chattters if it thinks I haven't noticed it.
The Coal Tit here is still timid, but it should soon gain courage from the sight of the other birds feeding.
Long-Tailed Tits moved through the trees at Peter Pan.
A Magpie shone in the sunlight at the foot of Buck Hill.
Another finished a bowl of soup on a table at the Lido restaurant.
The female Pied Wagtail at the Lido is now a daily sight.
Ahmet Amerikali was in Battersea Park where he photographed a Firecrest looking particularly fiery ...
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... outshining a nearby Goldcrest.
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A slice of bread was mysteriously moving across the little stream in the Dell. Closer inspection showed that it was being nibbled by the large carp in the stream. A Moorhen barged in and took over the slice.
Another Moorhen amused itself by climbing in the reeds beside the Long Water.
A gaggle of Greylag Geese crossed the busy Serpentine Road and the horse ride to graze.
The six teenage Mute Swans were cruisng around the Serpentine as if the owned it -- which, as long as their ferocious father continues to guard them, they do.
On the subject of collective bird names - if geese are a "gaggle", and Crows a "murder", and Owls "a wisdom", what are Swans?
ReplyDeleteI'll never tire of two things: Robins chattering, and Song Thrushes singing.
Tinúviel
There doesn't seem to be a settled collective noun for swans. Maybe the commonest are a bevy for swans on the ground, and a wedge for swans in flight in a V formation. Geese also have this difference: a collection of geese flying is called a skein, and this usage is common and accepted.
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