Grosser Garten Morning Walk - MOORHEN and Short-toed Treecreepers everywhere!

Decent birding this morning. I finally got to the Grosser Garten city park in Dresden before 9am! Thus before it became filled with weekend nature/fresh air seeking Dresdener families. During a  brisk 2 1/2 hour walk, I tallied 33 species (including 2 introduced ones though, shown in the list below in italics)...not bad at all considering it not only was a city park, but I had some major misses (see the last part for a partial list). Qualitatively, though, it was one of the best bird walks I've had in Germany, and the best part was 2 more lifers!

1) Graylag Goose
2) Mute Swan - 1
3) Mallard - x
4) Wood Duck - 1 drake
5) Mandarin Duck - x
6) Gray Heron - 3, FOY.
7) COMMON MOORHEN - 1, FOY. Brief but great view of adult and it called
8) Rock Pigeon - x
9) Common Wood-Pigeon - x
10) Common Swift - 2, FOY.
11) LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER - 1, FOY, LIFER! First heard, then observed for decent period on an old, dying deciduous tree at western edge of Palais lawn.
12) Great Spotted Woodpecker - 2.
13) Eurasian Magpie - few.
14) Carrion Crow - x
15) Hooded Crow - x
16) Great Tit - x
17) Eurasian Blue Tit - x
18) Long-tailed Tit - 2 small flocks of 2-3 pairs each around the park.
19) Eurasian Nuthatch - 6
20) Short-toed Treecreeper - 10+. Singing and literally EVERYWHERE! Some perhaps migrants?
21) Blackcap - 4
22) European Robin - 3
23) Black Redstart - 1 female (or perhaps the DULLEST male I ever saw!) singing from the top of a conifer.
24) Eurasian Blackbird - x
25) Fieldfare - 10+
26) Song Thrush - 2, one was gathering nesting material.
27) European Starling - x.
28) White Wagtail - 1 walking and wagging its way down a dirt path in the shade of trees, rather far from water...unusual behavior based on my experience (?)
29) Common Chaffinch - x
30) European Greenfich - 5+
31) European Goldfinch - 2 (singles in different locations)
32) EUROPEAN SERIN - 1, FOY, LIFER! Single bright adult male; huge head plus tiny bill gave me a "bulldog" impression :)
33) House Sparrow - x

HUGE Misses:
1) Green Woodpecker!!! Usually most common woodpecker sp., already nesting so they quieted down??
2) Eurasian Jay??? (Just overlooked? Saw one the day before on the campus).
3) Warblers (besides Blackcap)
4) Hawfinch - usually see a few here in specific locations.
5) NO RAPTORS!!!! (no Kestrel even!)
and a few others that would have easily made it a 40+-species walk, and probably if I did a Big Day there today I could have gotten close to 50 species...not bad for a city park, really, when you won't see many more species in the surrounding countryside.

Well, let's see what tomorrow brings; heading to new place I found out about on a Saxony ornithological website written only in German (thus why I found out about it only recently). It should be interesting no matter how many species I see, and the weather is cooler but should be sunny and clear. Good spring birding everyone!