I had gone to a new park in London today, Sydenham Hill Park, with the hopes of photographing birds. I heard a symphony of them in the trees, a lot of blackbirds, robins, and others that I could not identify, but they were not to be seen. I think at one point I saw a long-tailed tit, but it was there and gone too quickly for ID, let alone a photo. The park was really beautiful, a woodland area that seemed quite natural as opposed to a lot of the curated parks we go to with sparsely located trees. This was like being in dense greenery, so as a park visit, I thoroughly enjoyed it. As a birding trip for photos, it was disappointing.
The big surprise came at the end when we had gone for a walk down some residential streets and stopped to have some tea from our travel mugs at a main road. There was a two-sided bench that we could sit on facing some trees near the road or facing the road itself, so we opted to look at the trees. All of a sudden, I spotted some movement in a branch, and it was a wren! I was so excited! I've been seeing these beauties since I arrived in the UK, but I've never been able to get a photo of one, outside of a fledgling during our trip to Cornwall--but I think that is in my Cornwall post. In any case, this is the first adult wren I've been able to photograph here or in Canada (where we have house wrens). I can't say I've never photographed a wren because I was lucky enough to capture a Carolina wren on film when visiting my brother in the US. But they are small, and they usually don't sit still for very long, so it's always a challenge to see them before they flit away, much less get a photo. So in the end, I got a bird photo after all, even if it wasn't at the park where I intended to see one.
Before I shared this post, I decided to look up to see my Cornwall post, and apparently I don't have one! I mean, not in my bird blog anyway. I thought I had made a special post for Cornwall or something like that, but the only place I've shared my fledgling photos is on my travel blog, and I think I might have still been learning how to caption photos at that time as I didn't even label it! Anyway, for the sake of continuity, I thought it would be a good idea to include the fledgling photo here. This was from a park in Penzance in June 2021. It was so cute!
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