Last Sunday I went with my camera for a walk in London's St. James's Park. I have already posted some photographs of birds on the ice and hiding in daffodils from that walk. Now I am posting photographs of wildlife seen on the rest of the walk round the lake.
I am very fond of the eight black swans that now live in the park and always make a point of trying to find them. I saw this lovely creature standing in the mud at the side of an iced-over part of the lake. It looked a bit annoyed in this picture as the near-by tourist was throwing food to other birds at the time.
It stared at me in disbelief as I was only photographing it and not attempting to feed it.
Round the corner I came across a group of young frisky squirrels that were running about all over the place. This one had a very raggedy tail.
One of the other young squirrels scampered up a tree and decided to sit for a moment in a modelling pose.
Further round the lake there was another black swan - this time in angry mode with it's feathers all ruffled up.
Round here there was a group of five or six of the black swans, but they would not agree to pose all together in a place with enough light for a group photograph. It was a very overcast, dull and cold day and it had been raining earlier on in the morning.
The angry black swan stayed angry and then swam off in a huff. It's feathers made an amazing pattern.
One of the black swans always hangs around with a pair of mute swans. Here it is swimming over to join one of the pair. It was not made very welcome, so ended up having to leave them alone!
A coot was sitting on a nest under a tree on the ice-covered water.
Swimming along with the other ducks in the unfrozen area of the lake was a rather dark-coloured female mallard.
There was a group of three white Ross's geese on the grass at the other end of the lake.
I rather liked the amazing pattern of feathers on the back of this preening Greylag goose.
Three members of the hybrid Greylag/Bar-headed goose family were marching in line along the grass.
A Gadwall couple had come onto the grass to look for food.
Four Red-breasted and two Barnacle geese were also foraging for food in the grass.
So were two Widgeon drakes - with the icy water of the lake seen behind them.
A couple of Cormorants were standing on a fallen branch near the island in the centre of the lake.
A Pintail drake was wandering around on the muddy land.
A Hooded Merganser drake was swimming in the cold water.
A Bahama Pintail looked as though it was standing in the icy wasteland of Siberia.
A female Pochard looked like a sleepy statue stuck in the melting ice.
A female Hooded Merganser was having a bad hair day on the ice. A Pochard drake came swimming towards me.
Another Bahama Pintail was on the ice in front of a male Smew and Tufted duck.
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