Posts tagged with "london"
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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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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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, 25. August 2009, 19:27:38
catching, grebe, fish, london
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While in the hide in the wild area of the London Wetland centre, I had the pleasure of watching a great crested grebe
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Saturday, 22. August 2009, 09:42:33
wwt, moorhens, trust, london
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Last Saturday I went to the London Wetland centre, which is run by the Wildfowl and Wetland trust. One bird that does very well there is the moorhen, which can be found pretty much everywhere in the reserve. This youngster was walking around the path
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Thursday, 20. August 2009, 23:05:12
centre, report, wetland, london
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Moorhens stand in the oddest poses sometimes
Tuesday, 17. March 2009, 18:21:10
mandarin, red, female, richmond
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The saturday before last I headed to Richmond Park for so Sue could try out some photography techniques she'd been reading about. I took a lot of photos as I always do when visiting this park, so Ive broken it down into more than one post. In this post I'll cover the ducks, starting with the pintails.
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Tuesday, 3. March 2009, 09:14:24
larva, pelicans, park, london
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Here are some photos from almost a year ago that have been sitting on my desktop. Back when I was doing my masters I would cut through St. James's Park on my way to uni. This particular morning their was a fine mist over the lake
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Sunday, 8. February 2009, 23:39:25
black, gull, pelican, greylag
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He are my wildlife photos from a couple of weekends ago, when I went to London. First up are the cormorants from near tower bridge
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