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Parakeets, canada x greylag goose hybrids and other birds at Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park

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Other than the owls featured a couple of posts ago, I saw many birds at Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park. The most obvious was probably this ring necked parakeet hanging around one of the feeders.
ring necked parakeet close up 2

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RSPB Dungeness - Bittern and black necked grebe

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On Saturday I headed to Dungeness, the RSPB reserve on the South Kent. Plans had been afoot since before christmas when great egrets, cattle egrets and glossy ibis (all of which are great sightings in the UK and would be first for me) were all present. Of course thay had all left by Saturday. There were still some nice things around. Walking past one of the pits I noticed a different looking bird: my first ever black necked grebeNot the best photo as it never came too close but still nice to see.

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Birds in Richmond Park

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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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Buzzard mobbed by jackdaws and parakeets

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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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Otter and Owl Sanctuary animals

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Carrying on from the previous two posts here are the photos of animals from the Otter and Owl Sanctuary. You can see exactly how tame the deer in the last post wasSue was trying to encourage it to nibble my bag, but it prefered her coat! lol

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Richmond Park - Ring necked parakeets, goldfinch and fallow deer

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Continuing on from yesterday here are some more photos. First up a goldfinch

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Bushy Park Wildlife

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One last post to finish of my photos from Bushy Park. I'll start with the deer photos I mistakenly left out before. Here is the stag bellowing as we left

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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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