There was only time for a quick visit to the park because I went to Rainham Marshes later. I hope to have more pictures and videos to put up tonight.
More song from the Robin in the red-leafed cherry tree at the bridge.
The Robin at Mount Gate is more interested in pine nuts than singing.
The dominant Black-Headed Gull couldn't chase an obstinate Herring Gull off the landing stage, and so pretended to ignore it.
The Coots at the bridge were also out of luck, as a young Grey Heron was using their nest as a fishing platform.
There was a full house of Cormorants around the Serpentine island, but still room for one on top. This is the dead branch they always use, evidently because it sticks out a long way and these rather clumsy birds can land on it easily.
A young Moorhen wandered along the edge below ...
... where the father of the two Great Crested Grebe chicks was not getting a moment's rest.
The single chick on the other side of the lake had just been fed and was quiet for a moment.
Two pictures from Theodore: a good shot of a young Green Woodpecker near the Round Pond ...
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... and a distant view of one of the Hobbies flying over the Italian Garden.
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Part 2 follows when I've gone through several hundred pictures and video clips from Rainham.
Several hundred pictures and videos. We don't thank you enough for your daily, painstaking, exacting work, and we ought to do it on the regular.
ReplyDeleteVery glad to see the Robin coming up with new feathers. In not time at all they'll be their regular smart self.
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Over 450 from the Rainham trip alone. With practice and a good image viewer they can be whizzed through very fast and the duds deleted and the best kept. I have to use a Windows computer for the blog because there are some programs that don't exist for Linux, and I use JPEGView where you can move through pictures, blowing each one up to full size, with just two fingers.
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