© Worth Park Friends 2024
Our member Tom Howard-Jones wrote:
Mallard, Photo: Tom Howard-Jones, 21st January 2023
It was a chilly, sunny day and parts of the lake were still frozen.
The two adult
Egyptian Geese
are still present; no indication that they are nesting
yet.
Only a few
Canada Geese
were around.
The
gulls
were mostly standing on the ice.
The 3
hybrid ducks
are still around and seem to be becoming more used to people.
There are almost no berries left on the trees which might account for the absence of
some bird species.
The bird sightings from Worth Park are also put on the
Bird Track database
where
they are used by various ornithological organisations. At the end of 2022 our records
for the year were: 12 lists; 272 records and 42 species.
A full list of the birds seen is given in the
Bird Table
.