Birds on water

Posted byPatricia Stoughton

Escape for a while with some birds in two of my favourite places: the lake in St. James’s Park and along the River Thames by Victoria Tower Gardens.

Gang of five: Pelicans on the St. James’s Park Lake.
One of this year’s four *surprise* pelican chicks.
A pelican swimming in the reflection of the Blue Bridge, St. James’s Park.
Swan in St. James’s Park.
Young cygnet having a clean on the lake in St. James’s Park.
Adolescent cygnet.
A pair of swans on the Thames below Victoria Tower Gardens’ embankment wall.
A simultaneous lunge under water: Three swans heads down, munching something in the River Thames.
A pair of black swans in St. James’s Park.
A pair of Egyptian geese on the Thames.
Egyptian geese fighting on the Thames, close to Lambeth Bridge.
An Egyptian goose family swept towards Vauxhall Bridge by a flood tide.
A pair of Ross’s geese with their gosling in St. James’s Park.
Canada goose on the Thames.
Greylag geese on the lake in St. James’s Park.
Young herring gull making ripples in the River Thames.
Herring gull landing on the Thames.
Black headed gulls treading water on an incoming tide.
Black-headed gull on the Thames.
Cormorant takes to the air from the Thames.

Further Information
London Wildlife Trust London Birds Spotter
RSPB Central London Wildlife places
Wildlife in St. James’s Park