A pre-Christmas outing to central London with Keith. The morning’s target was to locate Little Owl in Hyde Park. I had been given directions to two roosting sites and so on arrival at the park, we set off to, the first of these. Once we located the correct tree, we soon found an owl sitting out on a branch.
It was good that we found this Owl being so co-operative as we never managed to locate the second roosting tree (later found this was due to my poor navigation and we had been looking in the wrong place!). Our target species found we spent the rest of the morning on the banks of the Serpentine / Longwater trying to find Red Crested Pochard or Mandarin Duck, both of which can be found here on occasion, but not today.
Greylag Goose [sp] (Anser anser)
Canada Goose [sp] (Branta canadensis)
Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca)
Mallard [sp] (Anas platyrhynchos)
Northern Shoveler (Anas clypeata)
Common Pochard (Aythya ferina)
Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula)
Great Cormorant [sp] (Phalacrocorax carbo)
Common Moorhen [sp] (Gallinula chloropus)
Eurasian Coot [sp] (Fulica atra)
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Common Gull (Larus canus canus)
European Herring Gull [sp] (Larus argentatus)
Lesser Black-backed Gull [sp] (Larus fuscus)
Common Pigeon [sp] (Columba livia)
Common Wood Pigeon [sp] (Columba palumbus)
Little Owl [sp] (Athene noctua)
Eurasian Magpie [sp] (Pica pica)
Carrion Crow [sp] (Corvus corone)
Coal Tit [sp] (Periparus ater)
Great Tit [sp] (Parus major)
Eurasian Blue Tit [sp] (Cyanistes caeruleus)
Common Blackbird [sp] (Turdus merula)
European Robin [sp] (Erithacus rubecula)
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