A Few Hours In Regent's Park (Part Two) EDIT WITH ID's 07-11-13

Here's part two of the photos from my walk around Regent's Park. I have tried to ID the various 'ornamental' ducks, but I could be wrong. Some I haven't been able to ID at all. This was because I went into 'Duck Meltdown' last night after 4 hours of trawling through various duck ID websites, reference books and so on. After a while they all started to look the same! Due to fallen trees from last weekends storm, certain areas were cordoned off and I had to take many of these photos from quite a distance.

1.(EUROPEAN) Goldeneye

2.Ruddy Shelduck (YES)

3.AND MORE...

4.Preening time!

5.Male & female Pochard (YES)

6.Male Tufted Duck & Female Pochard? (YES)

7.Juvenile Great Crested Grebe? (YES)

8.Shoveler (YES)

9.AND AGAIN

10.My first thought was Herring Gull, but then I looked at the RSPB book and thought First Winter Black Backed Gull (Greater) (RIGHT FIRST TIME, HERRING GULL FIRST WINTER)

11.The adult version (NO, THIS IS AN ADULT LESSER BLACK BACKED GULL)

12.To add to the confusion. Another First Winter Gull of some description. (OF THE HERRING VARIETY)

13.Egyptian Geese (Juveniles?) (YES)

The gulls exchange insurance details following an unfortunate mid-lake pile up!

14.Canada Geese (OBVIOUSLY)

15.I don't know where to start with this one! Baikal Teal maybe? (CORRECT)

16.Ringed Teal? (YES)

17.Female Teal of some kind? (FEMALE GARGANEY)

18.AS ABOVE

19.Red Headed Pochard (YES)

20.Female Red Crested Pochard? (YES)

21.Female Ringed Teal? (BAIKAL TEAL {DRAKE} COLOURING UP)

22.Any ideas? (ARGENTINE SHOVELER)

23.And again... (CAPE TEAL)

24.Mute Swan!!!

25.Help! I think this species has featured earlier in the posting but with the view being from above, it looks rather different. (THE ARGENTINE SHOVELER ONCE AGAIN)

26.AND AGAIN

27.Goldeneye (YES)

28.Back to the queries. Speckled teal? (YES)

29.There are similarities in so many of these. I'm guessing many of them are female. The beaks seem different in colour and shape.(VERSICOLOR TEAL)

30.Another query. White Faced Whistling Duck is what Hazy has suggested. Sounds right. (YES)

31.(AMERICAN) Wigeon?

32.Wood Duck and...? Is that a female Madarin? (PINTAIL)

33.Again. Stumped. (CHILOE WIGEON)

34.Female Ringed Teal? Maybe not, the red on the beak doesn't match up. Back to the textbooks! (BAHAMA PINTAIL)

35.Mandarin Central. If the brown ones are females, the one at the front seems to have a different head colour. (MANDARINS AND BAHAMA PINTAILS)

Part Three to follow later. I need to lie down in a darkened room and stop thinking about ducks!

I've edited this. I confused Wood Ducks with Mandarins on my initial upload.