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UK Wildlife

Exploring the fauna of Britain

Posts tagged with "birds"

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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Birdworld

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On sturday I visit birdworld. Its a zoo of mainly birds (as you probably guessed!) and along with many foriegn species, it also had a few that are found in the wild in the UK. So as this is the UK wildlife blog I figured I better keep to just them :smile:

first up is this beautiful tawny owl

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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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my, haven't they grown!

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About 3 weeks ago as part of my long post exam tour of the parks of Romford I wandered through Raphaels park and photographed a coot feeding its chicks(see here, second photo down). I visited again today and in roughly the same spot was a brood of four chicks: they all seemed to have survived and they,ve grown!

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Visit to wildwood - reptiles are out

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With the sun in the morning, a visit to wildwood trust seemed a good idea. And some of the reptiles were out, including this adder

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A visit to Raphaels Park and Ingrebourne valley and harrow lodge park and Dagenham chase - a busy day!

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On Thursday I finally had a free day and the weather was good :smile: So I thought I'd head for part of the Ingrebourne river and the parks reserves it flow through: Ingrebourne Nature Reserve, Hornchurch Country Park and Berwick Woods. I started of in Raphaels park as its only a small diversion from the walk to the bus stop. There I was treated to a great crested grebe hunting for breakfast

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Heronry report 14: and other activity in regents park

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Its been atleast a week since Ive been to Regents Park, so it was time for a visit. First up, of course the herons. Adults were a bit thin on the ground, for Regents Park anyway. The chicks are growing fast, some might even be fledging soon, judging by there size!

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Herons feeding video

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Just a quick post withn a video of the Regents park herons being fed. Enjoy :smile:

Heronry Report 13: chick photos and video

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I t had been a while since I'd been to Regents Park (well compared to before how often I'd been to Regents prevously), so I thought I'd check on the progress of the herons. I also met up with Tony, the wildlife officer at Regents Park and writer od 'regents park birds' site (see links) which was a nice bonus. Anyway back to the herons. The chicks could be seen on two nests

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