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Ducks: on ice

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Here are a few short videos of the ducks on Ice from Thursday before last. First up is a sometimes over exposed video (It was filmed at dawn with no sun on the lake) of a mallard female waddling across (and through!) the ice

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Mallards, cormorants and common gulls

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Some photos from last week, last Thursday to be precise, when I went for the usual walk through Raphaels, ise and Bedfords Park. In Raphaels one of the cormorants was hunting in the shallow end

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Frosty morning

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On thursday I got up before dawn to photograph the frosty winter scenes. I started off in Raphaels Park sunrise over raphaels park

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Eastbrookend Country Park and The Chase

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Here is the first part of my report on my long walk yesterday. It started of walking down the bank of the River Rom. I had been walking for about 15 minutes and seen nothing but a few mallards, when I sawa crow on the path ahead. Then out of no where what I though was a thrush jumped on the crow and scaring it off. As the attacker flew of I realised it was a male sparrowhawk. A good start. The path after this is a muddy narrow one through a patch of woodlanmd bordering the river

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Raphael's Park

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I had a look in Raphael's Park today. There were an number of birds about: 6 cormorants, a little grebe and the heron. There was also a pair of escapees: a muscovy duck and an eygptian goose

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Richmond park

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Sorry for the lack of posting, but I haven't had much to post about really and I havent written much in the way of articles with the amount of volunteering I'm doing at the moment. But on Saturday the weather just about) held enought for me and Sue to got to Richmond Park to seee the deer rut. I expected it to be busy, and well, it was

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Richmond Park videos - Fallow deer and mallard ducklings

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Here the last post on my visit to Richmond Park, with a couple of videos I recorded. First up are the tame fallow deer herd ignoring the humans wizzing past them on the road

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Richmond Park Birds

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I only covered the deer yesterday but I have number of bird photos from Saturday too (As well as invertebrates to come tommorow). There was a family of swans on each of the large pen ponds, the second of which I got quite close too

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Regents park - ducks and heron

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Over a week ago I had a wander around Regents Park to show a classmate around. We saw a few things. The first notable thing was the family of mandarin ducks

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Regents Park

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I also visited Regents Park yesterday. There were a few heron about and feeling cooperative. This one posed at a nice distance for a reflection shot

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