Here's the final set of photos from my walk around Regent's Park last Saturday. I'm numbering them this time so that it's easier for them to be ID'd if I can't name them (or mis-identify them). I'll edit the previous three postings in the same way.
1.Heron
2.Grey Squirrel
3.A rather smart looking Feral
4.Terrible shot, I know, but I only had a fraction of a second to snap this individual. Not sure what it is.
Aiki has this as a Female White Headed Duck. I have it as ARGENTINE RUDDY DUCK.
5.An inquisitive young Coot
6.Snacktime for another Grey Squirrel.
7.I'll go with juvenile Black Backed Gull. Is it?
Aiki - Sub adult Herring Gull. Could it be 2nd WINTER YELLOW LEGGED GULL?
8.Juvenile Moorhen.
9.Whooper Swan.
10.The feeding frenzy of Gulls, Ferals and Canada Geese also attracted a young Heron...
11.The same young Heron.
12.And again...
13.One final snap.
14.Bar Headed Geese and Egyptian Goose (in foreground).
15.Barnacle Goose.
16.BHG
17.Greylag Goose, or is it a White Fronted Goose?
Aiki - Lesser White Fronted Goose/Bar Headed Goose Hybrid. or BAR HEADED GOOSE/PINK FOOTED GOOSE HYBRID? Will we ever know? It apparently hangs around with the BH Geese.
18.Same Goose. Not certain why it seems to have a partially white face. Juvenile maybe?
19.Bar Headed Goose
20.Back to our friend.
21.Female Tufted Duck
22.Male and Female Tufted Duck
23.Another of our white faced friends.
As I was about to leave the park I spotted a pair of Jays...
Unicum arbustum haud alit duos erithacos
(One bush does not shelter two Robins)
Zenodotus (3rd Century B.C.)
Hazy! Get your reading glasses on! ID's required!
Ah, good old Regent's Park :)
4 is female White-headed Duck
7 is subadult Herring Gull
17 (and 18, and 21) is a hybrid, I suspect it's Lesser White-fronted Goose x Bar-headed Goose
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Thanks Aiki. That goose had features of at least two geese but I couldn't figure out what they were! The Herring/Black Headed Gulls proved difficult to distinguish as juveniles. At least they did for me! No Merganisers this time, unless I missed one on any of my previous uploads.
Part Four done, but with a difference of opinion on three of them, although one of those is a hybrid so we don't really know other than there is Bar Headed Goose in there somewhere!
The stifftail duck could be an Argentine Bluebill, I forgot they had those there :) but I am standing firm on the Herring Gull - the mantle is too pale for Yellow-legged. And Yellow-leggeds are pretty rare birds in the UK also while Herrings are very common (not that you can rule YLG out just by that of course).
ETA - oh, and the goose. The quite prominent eyering is a good pointer towards Lesser White-fronted ancestry. Compare to these pics of a hybrid Lesser White-front x Bar-headed: http://www.flickr.com/groups/hybridbirds/discuss/72157623875551535/
LOL MC, just caught up with this 4th thread, no need for me to don the reading glasses, I had my bad eyesight lasered 15 years ago LOL but still can't ID these birds so thank goodness Aiki has responded, I'm never going to remember all these names for when I return to Regents !
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Regards, Hazel
Thanks Hazy. With considerable help from another source I managed to ID them, albeit with slightly different names than those Aiki or any other regular birder might use. As she pointed out to me, Argentine rather than Red Shoveler, Bahama rather than White Cheeked Pintail and so on. Same bird, different name. Still, they are wonderful looking birds aren't they? Hopefully there will be some more interesting photos coming up on Sunday!