The last park remaining to visit since the lockdown was Pickering Park, a 55 min walk away from home. I start early and walk along Spring Bank, on a cycle path and then on Anlaby Road and Boothferry Road. On the way there, the most obvious birds were starlings, the noisy fledglings chasing their parents for food and flocks of families gathering together on grassy spaces.
Starling Fledgling.
At Pickering Park, I watched the marginal vegetation for dragonflies. Swifts and House Martins drink water from the lake, skimming the surface with their bills.
Caddis fly.
I was lucky to find three Blue-tailed damselflies basking on leaves on the same area of the lake.
The resident male swan, ring 841, taking it easy. The female was on their nest on the island behind.
A coot and cootlings
Coot chicks.
There were plenty of Greylag with goslings. This was one of the smallest and a single one on the brood, maybe first time parents?
The greylag creche.
Canada creche with three families.
An underwater predator. A large pike in the northern end of the lake.
A view of the southern end of the lake.
These are the mute swan young from last year. This pair is always very late chasing them out of the parental territory.
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