A KINGFISHER!

I’ve just set off along the River Wandle from Wilderness Island to Spencer Road Wetlands when I see it fishing from a curved branch.  It’s not a great photo as I don’t have my birding lens with me… but amazing to see this in such a built up area. I stay there long enough to see it catch a fish.

On route I find what I think is ivy broomrape, conveniently under an ivy hedge which it is parasitising.

Spencer Road Wetlands is shut but I can see a pond dipping platform through the fence.