tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post4378640571626746711..comments2024-03-29T01:41:15.713+00:00Comments on Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park birds: Ralph Hancockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-20500361645587757092018-03-22T00:29:58.563+00:002018-03-22T00:29:58.563+00:00The Coot isn't carrying anything. It's beh...The Coot isn't carrying anything. It's behind one of the circle of wooden posts that were driven into the lake bed to make the island. They were lashed together with willow twigs woven in and out to create a kind of basket, which was then filled with brushwood to above water level and covered with live reed plants. The idea was that the roots of the reeds would bind the structure together. But the designer didn't allow for the destructive power of swans, which ripped the reeds up, and now half the island has sunk below water level and it is beginning to disintegrate.<br /><br />Sorry that the Linux installer has jammed. I suspect that version 17.1 may be too much for the elderly machine to cope with, and it has simply run out of processing power as the installation proceeded.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-9497361942904048932018-03-21T19:39:21.466+00:002018-03-21T19:39:21.466+00:00Great collection of bird stares! From the impudenc...Great collection of bird stares! From the impudence of the Gull to the nonchalance of the Moorhen.<br /><br />Moorhens pulling gulls' legs is a beloved classic of this blog, I think.<br /><br />What piece of decoration is the disgruntled Coot carrying away? It looks like some plastic box.<br /><br />(currently battling the linux Grey Screen of Death)TinĂºvielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794275230697959519noreply@blogger.com