Here are videos of deer from my early morning visit to Bedfords park. First up is the deer calf poking his nose into the tree. Im not sure what its doing, possibly drink the dew? If anyone has any idea please let me know
Yesterday I got up at 5am and head for Bedfords Park. I got up at this ridiculous hour to beat the dog walkers to the park (although I still ran into one!). I wanted to avoid them so the red deer calves would be less wary and nearer the fence. Well they were - and I took a 'few' photos:
I went to wildwood on Friday, but it was raining the whole time so not many photos came out. I did managed these of the green lizard under the heat lamp in the hut enclosure
Just a quick post with what I saw today when helping out with an education group. Pond dipping was first up and it wasn't long before one of the little ones got something exciting:A water scorpion
On saturday we went for a trip to Lee valley, stopping of at Wake valley pond on the way. At wake valley ponds I was looking for hairy dragonflys. Again I had no luck, although I did manage to see a few downey emerald dragonflys, a new species for me. They were all in flight so I could only manage this shot
Continuing on from yesterday, I went for an early start at Bedfords Park. One reason for this is the fact the sun would then be on the right side to photograph the deer, and hopefully be that nice morning light. Thankfully this plan worked and I manged a number of shots, mainly of one particular female thatw as making a lot of noise.
Well after my 'spring is here' post heres a one filled with snow! For those not in the UK we had a mass of weather move down from the arctic/Russia/somewhere cold and we ended up here in Essex (SE UK) with the first snow of winter; in spring!? - good old british weather! Anyway, I woke up this morning to this view:
Watching the deer rutting yesterday reminded me of when I was watching them a few weeks ago. And I wondered what happened to the photos. So last nite I managed to find them and here are some of the better ones:
I spent today revising up at bedfords park. It was meant to be a quick visit but there was a school group in so I thought I'd help out as it had been a while. First up was pond dipping. The problem was the pond had flooded and the dipping platform was more of an Island! We let the kids loose with the nets and they caught freshwater shrimps (Gammarus) and some cyclops. There was then the cry of 'NEWT!' And there in the tray was a female smooth/common newt (Lissotriton (formerly Triturus) vulgaris)
A water scorpion 
