Friday, October 18, 2024

16 October 2024 London: Regent's Park on a Sunny British Afternoon

 


With a forecast of 70 degrees and sunny we hightailed it to Regent's Park for a picnic.  It was a good day so see birds and I got two new ones.  The people watching was pretty good too.  There was a school group there and we watched a young man throw a handful of crisps onto the ground.  Not a problem in and of itself except the ground where he threw the crisps was in front of a group of young women.  Once the crisps hit the ground the Canada geese, seagulls and crows stampeded over to where the girls were.  The screeching and screaming were too much!  We kept up our walk and made it around the lake.  We had our picnic in the Queen's Garden and then headed back to finalize our packing. We caught the bus on Baker Street where it was jam packed with Sherlock Holmes items. 



California plates and everything


Theosophical Society?


Like a iron doily 


Circles inside circles inside circles


Domes off in the distance


Magpie


A stately tree


Pochards


A northern shoveler


Shoveler, since his beak is so large 


Crested merganser


White Faced Whistling Ducks  Lifebird


A Smew splashing in the water


Smew is Lifebird #2


Big lunker fish


Such a pretty dog


Grey Heron


A row of row houses


A lighthouse in the side of a building


Our stroll


  It has been 2 years and 133 days since we began our Migration