Hampstead 9am. Overcast until I got of the bus and then, typically, it started to rain.
Grey heron, starlings, dunnock, robin, blackbirds, flocks of tits in the trees (great, blue, great, long-tailed, willow or marsh (unable to make a clear identification due to light)), chaffinch, house sparrow, magpie, carrion crow, jay (only one- out of interest, has anyone seen jays flock together or are they solitary? You see magpies, crows, jackdaws, rooks etc together), song thrush, wren, cormorants, tufted ducks, coots, moorhen, black-headed gulls, Canada geese, mute swans (which some fully grown juveniles but with identical to adults but with grey beaks), mallards and a pair of ring-necked parakeets (there is also a small community of these around the Welsh harp).
In addition, amongst the pigeons, they was a white and black one (I’d have said a type of pigeon/dove) which deep red tissue around the beak and eye, similar appearance to what is seem on a turkey but no where near as pronounced.
It's famous for being Bill Oddie's local patch, and he seems to like it there. The book "Where to watch birds in the London area" covers it pretty thoroughly, although it's a few years old now.
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I agree!
I’ve just ordered it from Play, much appreciated.
Hopefully, if I ever work out how to use my camera properly, I’ll be adding the odd photo for you aid in identification.
I also hope this thread comes to life a bit more. I admit, I see the Durham on and am a tad envious.
Catch you later ,
SPF