Eurasian Coots are quite tame.
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These ones were on Hampstead Heath. Look at those funny feet!
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Canada Geese
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Great Crested Grebe
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Tufted Duck. We're still at the Hampstead Heath Ponds
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Common Moorhen is a friend from home.
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Song Thrush sunning itself.
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These House Martins were building a nest in our cousin's house in Kent.
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Canada Geese at the Brent Reservoir ( ) Viewed: 664 times.
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We took a long walk from Marble Arch through various Royal Parks: Hyde Park, Green Park, and St. James Park. Each of them has great trees and Green and St. James have bird-filled ponds. This is a young Moorhen.
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Common Pochard
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and Mrs. Pochard
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Tufted Duck
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This is a non-native Common Goldeneye, a bird that occasionally shows up in Texas.
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These geese were non-native, but made nice photos.
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Bar-Headed Goose
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A Fulvous Whistling-Duck, another American.
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These enormous Wood-Pigeons are abundant, and native, unlike the ubiquitous Rock Pigeons.
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This Common Moorhen family is on the pond near our family's house in Totteridge.
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From there, it is a short walk to the Darlands Nature Reserve, a beautiful place. These Mandarin Ducks are related to our gorgeous Wood Ducks. We never saw the amazing male, though.
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Gray Heron
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As we ate lunch, this tiny friend came to join us.
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Rock Pigeons are common, but still beautiful
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Up in York we found a White Wagtail in the square at lunch.
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Fountains Abbey has a wonderful setting with a stream, and old stone bridges, where we saw a Dipper. This photo is a Gray Wagtail.
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