Monday, 19 August 2024

Birds and flowers in Battersea Park - 4th August 2024

I began my walk at the lake where I saw mum Tufted duck with a row of six cute fluffy ducklings

The Mandarin drakes had lost most of their fancy-feathered summer breeding plumage and were resembling the duller-coloured females - apart from still having red beaks



Pair of Egyptian geese with five large fluffy goslings

Male Black-tailed Skimmer dragonfly on the path at the edge of the lake

After walking round part of the lake I made my way to the Old English Garden where a Damselfly was resting on the side of a white Water Lily

There were a few very tall Cardoons

...and this large seed head

There were lots of lovely Water Lilies on the pond in the centre of the Old English Garden




There were also Globe Thistles

...beautiful Agapanthus

...pretty white flowers

...and tall lemon Hollyhocks

A White butterfly with tattered wings landed on a flower


There were lovely pink and white Cosmos in flowerbeds near the river


Back at the lake a Great Crested Grebe was with a juvenile

In the distance, a large female dragonfly was ovipositing into the water

A young Grey Heron was standing at the edge of the lake


The Egyptian geese family that I had seen earlier resting at the edge of the lake were now on the move


A female Common Pochard was with two young ducklings

 

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