Posts tagged with "birds"
Wednesday, 18. November 2009, 16:50:58
birding, best, park, london
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Whenever I look at lists of places to see birds and other wildlife in London, the Royal Parks of St. James Park, Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens make the list, along with places like the London Wildlife Trust’s Camley Street, but what is probably the best site of all seems to be inexplicably missed out: Regents Park. In fact in a recent article on the top places to see birds in London in BBC Wildlife Magazine (August issue Pg.80) by the Urban Birder himself, David Lindo, completely ignored its existence!
I’ve never understood why this is. Based purely on the numbers game, Regents Park has over 200 recorded species, where as (to my knowledge at least) no other site in London has reached 200 species. Combine this with the 45 annually breeding species that’s quite an impressive list.
The breeding species themselves include kestrels
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Saturday, 14. November 2009, 12:37:31
waders, elmley, curlew, dunlin
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Carrying on from my last post, where I had just reached the actually RSPB reserve. We checked out most the hides and saw very little, nothing close enough to photograph. So we then head to far hide that was a fair old distance away. When we arrived we looked out over Windmill creek and there was a flock of Knots nearby
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Wednesday, 4. November 2009, 17:59:45
house, bird, report, rspb
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Last Tuesday I headed to Rainham Marshes on a day off. I was meant to be heading to Chelmsford to see a Red throated diver (or loon) that had turned up in the park there, but it had left on the Monday (and was sadly later found dead), so I head to Rainham marshes instead. It was a bit disappointing to be honest, as the water level was very low, with many of the better marsh frog and little grebe areas completely dry. But on the bird feeders I finally got a bogey species: the goldfinch
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Sunday, 18. October 2009, 08:36:20
stonechat, grey, heron, richmond
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There plenty of birds in Richmond Park other than those Ive posted about. In the first pond we came to a heron was standing where I had seen one
eating frogs earlier this year.
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Friday, 16. October 2009, 17:42:24
buzzard, park, moorhens, london
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While down at the main lakes in Richmond Park I spotted a group of birds in the sky. It turned out to be a buzzard (a first me within Greater London) being mobbed not just by jackdaws, which is not such an unusual sight, but by ring necked parakeets as well!
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Friday, 11. September 2009, 18:47:08
two, report, southend, island
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A couple of weeks ago I visited two tree island in south Essex, after hearing how great it was from local birders. I does have short eared owls in winter, but I saw a few waders, not cloe enough for a decent photo and the light wasn't great. I was about to head back to the car when I spotted acouple of this beauties
Wheatears.
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Wednesday, 26. August 2009, 19:32:03
london, dragonfly, centre, report
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Following on from my recent posts, here are the rest of the photos from my visit to the London Wetland centre. The centre has a large area of enclosures with water birds from around the world. The main enclosure had some long tailed ducks
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Tuesday, 21. July 2009, 20:24:12
pembrokeshire, dolphins, Martins, wagtail
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Well I've finish my photos taken on Skomer, and this post is what we saw after we left the island that day. Leaving the island on the boat we got lucky and saw a small pod of common dolphins
I was told later by a member of staff at lockley lodge, that this a rare sight from the skomer ferry, and she had never seen dolphins from the boat!
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Tuesday, 9. June 2009, 20:27:36
raphaels, of, back, report
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On saturday, after visiting Wake Valley Pond, I popped into Raphaels Park, and I so glad I did, because I was greeted with this sight
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Wednesday, 29. April 2009, 21:20:13
tit, forest, coal, chaffinch
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Here are the first batch of photos from the visit to the Otter and Owl Sanctuary in the New Forest. They have a number of bird feeders (less than last time though) and the first bird of note was a nuthatch
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