Working at home most of today – 4 Swifts over garden mid-morning and a brief view of Green Woodpecker as it flew through were the garden highlights. Went for lunchtime walk around the Tarn. The Canada and Greylag Geese have been very successful with their broods this year and neither seem to have lost any youngsters and these are now nearly adult size and fast taking on adult plumage.
I could still only find 1 Moorhen chick but the Coots seem to have survived and there are 3 family groups (2 of 4 young and 1 of a single young bird). One pair of Coots seem to be still sitting on nest so they either have eggs or chicks too.
Returning home from the station in the evening a Sparrowhawk swept across the road and into the Park.
Greylag Goose [sp] (Anser anser)
Canada Goose [sp] (Branta canadensis)
Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata)
Mallard [sp] (Anas platyrhynchos)
Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula)
Eurasian Sparrowhawk [sp] (Accipiter nisus)
Common Moorhen [sp] (Gallinula chloropus)
Eurasian Coot [sp] (Fulica atra)
European Herring Gull [sp] (Larus argentatus)
Common Pigeon [sp] (Columba livia)
Common Wood Pigeon [sp] (Columba palumbus)
Rose-ringed Parakeet [sp] (Psittacula krameri)
Common Swift [sp] (Apus apus)
European Green Woodpecker [sp] (Picus viridis)
Eurasian Jay [sp] (Garrulus glandarius)
Eurasian Magpie [sp] (Pica pica)
Carrion Crow [sp] (Corvus corone)
Common Blackbird [sp] (Turdus merula)
European Robin [sp] (Erithacus rubecula)
Dunnock [sp] (Prunella modularis)
European Goldfinch [sp] (Carduelis carduelis)
Pete's Favourite Things 