Today began with Starlings and a lone Pied Wagtail singing from the roof of the County Hall building in Lambeth. A walk through St James's Park then produced a riot of exotic wildfowl including Black Swan, Egyptian Goose (one pair with four young), Bar-headed Goose, Barnacle Goose, Hawaiian Goose, Snow Goose, Red-breasted Goose, Ruddy Shelduck, Shelduck,  Pintail, Wigeon, Red-crested Pochard, Hooded Merganser and four pelicans! (but also including genuinely wild species, namely Mute Swan, Canada Goose, Greylag Goose (+/-), Goldeneye, Mandarin (-/+), Cormorant, Great-crested Grebe (nest-building) and Ring-necked Parakeet).

A day trip to Brighton produced only common town and village birds, but the train journeys yielded interesting botanical records including Primrose in flower and Cuckoo Pint in leaf.
Back in London, a walk across Vauxhall Bridge produced numerous Cormorants flying in squadrons over the Thames and another Ring-necked Parakeet calling from the grounds of Lambeth Palace.