Afternoon visit to the patch, quite wintry & with signs displayed around the cemetery notifying of "scrub management".
I had already noticed removal of some vegetation on a previous visit, but I hope these signs aren't ominous for the thicker, more productive patches around the cemetery.
It would be a real shame if the place was completely stripped out & sanitised, not to mention disastrous for the bird-life.
Entrance:
Woodpigeon - entering the park, plucking at berries; the first of many.
Chaffinch - over.
Blackbird.
South-side:
Black-Headed Gull - a few drifted over.
Blue Tit, Crow, Magpie.
Goldcrest - one typically flitting amongst a pine tree.
Ring-Necked Parakeet - one over heading west.
Robin, Goldfinch - one over.
Herring Gull - a couple over.
Great Tit, Starling - one over.
Green Woodpecker - one, nice & bright up from the grass then out on a dead tree branch.
Wren - buzzed low into undergrowth.
Great-Spotted Woodpecker - flew up to the dead tree the green woodpecker was on causing a few calls of consternation from it, then the green flew off.
Jay, Coal Tit.
UCL Sports Grounds:
Common Gull - 3 feeding in the field, 1 flying about.
Black-Headed Gull - 4 feeding. Magpie - 8 feeding.
East-side.
House Sparrow - 3 males in bramble-patch.
Greenfinch - several around the cemetery.
Long-Tailed Tit - feeding party.
Mistle Thrush - one atop a tree next to Fortune Green, then as I looked at that I noticed one much closer in a tree, near the garden of remembrance with a redwing & a couple of greenfinch.
Redwing - one with the mistle thrush, then 10 sat in a tree nearby & several more in other trees as I left.
25 species.
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