tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post6117949487042442698..comments2024-03-27T19:59:10.159+00:00Comments on Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park birds: Ralph Hancockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-56206217641005302852015-09-30T21:46:47.204+01:002015-09-30T21:46:47.204+01:00Good to have met you. Yes, I have managed to photo...Good to have met you. Yes, I have managed to photograph a Kingfisher here just twice, when it came up to the Italian Garden and sat on an outside branch of the dead willow tree. See entries for 20 March 2013 and 4 July 2015. But this hardly ever happens.<br />Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-52631126087812801372015-09-30T12:44:22.164+01:002015-09-30T12:44:22.164+01:00It was delightful to have met you Ralph on Septemb...It was delightful to have met you Ralph on September 19 th on a bright, early, autumn morning in Hyde Park by the Peter Pan sculpture, both with our zoom lenses looking out across the lake and comparing notes and ideas about where to find the best views of the birds. Thank you for showing me your favourite haunts And the special tree in which you had spied an elusive "little owl " who kept turning his back on us. That was first time I have seen an owl at relatively close range who was not in captivity. I am enjoying your blog very much and hope that we might see you one day down at Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory . You might like to take a look at their website on www.SBBOT.org.UK. I shall look out for you when I am next in London and bring a flask if it is in the winter. Have you managed to photograph the kingfisher yet who came flying past us teasingly while we were looking at the Great Crested Grebes, I think they were ? Gail Marsh. Kent . Hopefulnessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-55674819294243972822015-09-04T08:33:32.138+01:002015-09-04T08:33:32.138+01:00Yes, that made me smile too. When the Grebe paren...Yes, that made me smile too. When the Grebe parent I was watching had unloaded its burden of Grebelets, it really did look a mess!Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09683657915069578017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-24845509530951975532015-09-01T21:45:55.223+01:002015-09-01T21:45:55.223+01:00I loved your comment yesterday about Grebes with c...I loved your comment yesterday about Grebes with chicks 'looking like an unmade bed'! They're normally such neat birdsIan Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07805150608243315063noreply@blogger.com