As an update, I did see the pelicans of St. James's Park today:
Pelicans of St. James's Park
And on my 10-minute walk through the park (this time on the south side of the lake), I added the following birds to my list:
Great cormorant
Red-breasted goose
Ross's goose (not to be confused with a snow goose)
Hawaiian goose
Barnacle goose
Common starling
This brings my bird list for St. James's Park to a whopping 24 species, and it proves my point that the park is a good way to see lots of different birds with minimal effort.
Also of interest are some new sightings today in Hyde Park:
This Grey heron (juvenile) let me get really close.
He was having a slight identity crisis though:
a flock of Canada and Greylag geese...
...with our Grey heron
This Great crested grebe was hard to photograph, since
he kept diving under the water for long periods of time
Tufted ducks - the female is a pale base to bill variant
Egyptian geese are common in London, but it's
less common to see a whole family like this one
This Graylag goose has a black-tipped beak
(perhaps a clue of a domestic ancestry?)
A Common Swift soars like a kite,
making sharp dips and circles in the sky
This little blackbird sang me a nice song
(more on blackbird songs later)
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