First warm afternoon of the year - Memorial Park
04 Mar 2026
Field Log
warm
15°C
Clear,
Bright,
Warm,
Very Light Breeze
- Blackbird ( } / park, urban
- Blue Tit ( } / park, urban
- Wood Pigeon ( } / park, urban
- Stock Dove ( } / park, urban
- Goldcrest ( } / park, urban
- Great Tit ( } / park, urban
- Canada Goose ( } / park, urban
- Mallard ( } / park, urban
- Wren ( } / park, urban
- Magpie ( } / park, urban
- Moorhen ( } / park, urban
- Coot ( } / park, urban
- Great Spotted Woodpecker ( } / park, urban
- Blackbird ( } / park, urban
- Starling ( } / park, urban
- Robin ( } / park, urban
- Black Headed Gull ( } / park, urban, photo
- Carrion Crow ( } / park, urban
- Rook ( } / park, urban
- Coal Tit ( } / park, urban
- Long Tailed Tit ( } / park, urban
- Grey Squirrel ( } / park, urban
- Rock Dove ( } / park, urban
- Ring Tailed Parkeet ( } / park, urban
MEMORIAL PARK
A walk around the park I thought of when I heard the word park as a child on the first warm afternoon of the year just as golden hour was kicking in. Wonderful.
Lots of sights and sounds spring but as I'm writing this a week plus later the details are fuzzy. Instead have some photos. Like this one of the spot I used to collect sticklebacks and frog spawn as a child that in a happy accident of light entering the lens ended up looking like it was shot on 120 Kodak film in the 70s :)
Also worth noting it was the first time I'd heard a Ring-tailed Parakeet in the park which makes sense as it's in a triangle of green places I've previous heard, seen and photographed them.
OTHER IMAGES FROM THIS VISIT
