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Richmond Park - ducks

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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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Bushy Park: woodland gardens

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Here is my second post on Bushy Park. The following are the photos from the woodland garden areas which are fenced off from the deer and (at least in theory) dogs. I'll start with the Mandarin ducks, this one of a male flaping its wings to be precise. It wasn't quite the angle I wnated but came out ok

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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 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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Richmond Park - including my first published photo :D

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Here are the photos I took on Wednesday in Richmond Park, as promised (if a day late

First thing I did was to head to the pond full of mandarin ducks. To syart the photos here is this nice close up of a male mandarin duck

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back to richmond park

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I visited richmond park again today. No time for a full post but here is a shot that just might surpass the one in my title bar.

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Visit to Richmond park - Part 2

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As promised in part 1 here is the second half of my report of what I saw last wednesday in Richmond park.

Picking up after I saw the fallow deer, I then headed down towards the lake. On the way I saw some more ring-necked parakeets and then a pair very obliging jackdaws, on one of which I manged to get the light just right:



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