The Swedish trip recedes swiftly into the past, but digital memory lives on! Here are a few of the birds I managed to get photos of:
Great Tit (Parus major) at a Swedish-made bird feeder in the Botanical Garden in Copenhagen. This angle does not show the black streak running down the GT’s breast, so here’s another view:
Compare with the Blue Tit:
Cyanistes caeruleus.
You should know both these silhouettes. Real Rock Dove (Columba livia) perched on bronze heron.
Actual Gray Heron (Ardea cinerea). Smaller than our Great Blue (Ardea herodias).
Wood Pigeon (Columba palumbus), seen with much greater frequency than Rock Dove.
Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra), young and old. 
And why not another view of the situation?
Eurasian Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus). Formerly lumped with North America’s Common Gallinule (Gallinula galeata).
Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus).
Adult breeding plumage is quite dark: an almost black breast and black legs.
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