STICKY POST
Saturday, 1. March 2008, 12:30:51
This is a blog based mainly on the wildlife found in the Uk, although there is still plenty of interest to those in the rest of the world.
The posts are mainly reports of wildlife sites I've visited which can be found
hereand articles on the wildlife of the UK. These can be found
hereThere is also my regular reports on the heronry at regents park, which can be found
here
Tuesday, 13. May 2008, 08:37:22
gosling, grebe, goose, rapheals
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Yesterday On my way into uni I decided to take the long route via rapheal park to see if I could see any great crested grebe young. The pair there did have young and they were riding on one of their parents backs, but were unfortunatly on the other side of the lake. I did however catch the other parent catch a fish
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Monday, 12. May 2008, 11:31:25
chaser, polita, Chrysolina, dragonfly
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Yesterday I visited Stodmarsh, near Canterbury in Kent. This reserve is a great place for birds, especially marsh harriers and hobbys. But I was in search of the reported hairy dragonflys. Entering the reserve it was already very hot and the insects were flying around. I did see a couple of hairy dragonflys but only brief glimpses as they wizzed past. I did however see lots of other Odonata (the insect order of dragonflys and damselflys). First up was this terenal (recently emerged) probable variable blue damselfly
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Thursday, 8. May 2008, 12:30:49
mallard, duck, grey, tip
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Yesterday in Regents Park I had a brief walk with the wildlife officer where he showed me some good bird localities and I saw this silver Y moth
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Wednesday, 7. May 2008, 08:20:30
report, spider, park, goose
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Well yesterday I only had time for a quick walk through rapheals park but there were some new arrivals:
a couple of canada goose goslings. I took a few more photos, including these too
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Tuesday, 6. May 2008, 09:18:47
Epping, forest, red, london
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On Saturday I visited Epping forest to look for hairy dragonflys on Wake valley pond. We parked in the visitor centre car park and head to wake valley pond through the wood. First of all we came a cross a pond where a number of large red damselflys were emerging
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Sunday, 4. May 2008, 16:32:46
swan, park, deer, red
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Yesterday I popped up to Bedfords Park to try and track down some large red damselflys. I got lucky and found this one:
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Thursday, 1. May 2008, 21:16:16
common, butterfly, park, toad
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In between the rain on tuesday I managed to get to Bedfords Park, but the conditions turned sour on the way and so the red damselflys that had been reported had dived for cover. But i did manage my first speckled wood of the year
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Wednesday, 30. April 2008, 22:05:42
aliens
Since the heronry reports are winding down, Ive decided to start a new series of posts on the non native species that have and in some cases till do inhabitat the UK. Some of them are species that you know are introduced, some will be animals that you know well but didn't realise were alien and other you will suprised and even amazed ever occured in the UK.
But for now I will leave with this picture of me being stalked by a frankly terrifing non-native that may one day replace us humans as the dominant species in the UK.....maybe
(the photo is sues and you can see it in full glory
here)
Tuesday, 29. April 2008, 21:07:57
report, heronry, regents, park
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Yesterday I went to Regents Park for a quick wander round. Ill start by concluding the heronry reports. Most of the chicks appeared to have fledged now so there won't be anything to report soon. I did see some adults collecting stick thou, so I guess we'll see.
The grey heron fledglings are still around and I saw at least 3 in the park. Here is one of them
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