Richmond Park

A first proper visit to the park dragging my bike up hills and across the grassy slopes.  It is a beautiful park with plenty of wildlife.

A Great Crested Grebe graced the Pen Ponds with small numbers of wildfowl present there including a drake Mandarin.

There were a few passerines around.  A singing male Reed Bunting 'chipped' and 'seeped' not to far from where I had sat while taking in the view and basking in the sun.  Common Warblers were also in song that included a Common Whitethroat, Blackcap, and Chiffchaff.

A male Stonechat dashed along the tops of the bracken near the Pen Ponds, a my first Speckled Wood of the year flew through the woodland.