Ring-necked Parakeets were conspicuous on both occasions that I was
fortunate enough to visit Kew Gardens - well worth it if you have a
day (or more!) to spare near Heathrow Airport. The number of exotics
in Kew Gardens and London parks, e.g. Regent's Park, made trying to
distinguish what was tickable pretty futile.
A couple of birding highlights were:
* Magpie (Pica pica) - as infamous as Currawongs, but a stunning bird;
* Robin (Erithacus rubecula) - nesting in one of the glasshouses, which
was a real buzz! Never mind the Amorphophallus titanus in flower...
That said, like the American Robin (Turdus migratorius) it rates a
distant second to the Australian *RED*-breasted robins for glamour
(Scarlet, Red-capped and Flame Robins.)
A "low"-light was being alerted to Wood Pigeons around Westminster
by my non-birding colleagues; I'd foolishly ignored them as fat
Rock Doves... :-)
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Paul Taylor Veni, vidi, tici -
I came, I saw, I ticked.
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