Birds in Regent's Park

Two more birds to report and two coincidences thrown in. On Monday while doing my usual walk to work through Regent's Park I spotted a goldcrest in a silver birch in a great birding spot kept by the excellent wildlife warden of Regent's Park, Tony Duckett. Later that day I read in his blog that 2 firecrests had been spotted. I immediately looked up the species on the off-chance I had actually spotted a firecrest but in fact, what I had seen was definitely a goldcrest. Still, one more bird for the list.

Then, that evening I got a call from my father crowing (if you'll excuse the bird term) over a lesser redpoll he's had on his niger seed in the garden. Three witnesses all with binoculars so it had to be true. I had never seen a redpoll up to that point but stunningly saw one the next day when I was again in Regent's Park almost at the same spot. This time a group of about 4 or 5 were pointed out to me by Tony himself who happened to be there. I even get a mention in his great blog on birding in Regent's Park. That brings me to 78 birds for the year and 86 for the UK All time List.