tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post7529027059575115969..comments2024-03-29T01:41:15.713+00:00Comments on Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park birds: Ralph Hancockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-32269891955323215522020-10-22T10:22:20.235+01:002020-10-22T10:22:20.235+01:00I don't mind the rain, but it's awkward us...I don't mind the rain, but it's awkward using the big camera with a wet flappy waterproof cover, and the video camera is very vulnerable and has to be used from under a tree if at all.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-38522846015575052392020-10-22T06:11:07.867+01:002020-10-22T06:11:07.867+01:00Quite an impressive Pike caught by the Heron! Also...Quite an impressive Pike caught by the Heron! Also a very handsome Red-crested Pochard. I admire your fortitude taking photos in that rain, though I was working in it for a few hours.Conehead54https://www.blogger.com/profile/18423862602236191493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-75828754772783982642020-10-21T23:48:07.534+01:002020-10-21T23:48:07.534+01:00Both Jackdaws and Carrion Crows love playing in th...Both Jackdaws and Carrion Crows love playing in the wind. It's a difficult subject to capture on video, but I am always looking for a chance.<br /><br />These parakeets are of the subspecies <i>Psittacula krameri manillensis</i>, named for Manila in the Philippines. They are a southern race, not the hardy Ring-Necked Parakeets of northern India which can live in the foothills of the Himalayas, and that makes their adaptation all the more remarkable. Really, since the recent episode of evolution that allowed them to survive the English winter, they should be assigned to a new subspecies.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-67446957478942152282020-10-21T23:37:06.631+01:002020-10-21T23:37:06.631+01:00But what a photograph of the Coal Tit! Worth a doz...But what a photograph of the Coal Tit! Worth a dozen more.<br /><br />Today was awfully windy and rainy here as well. I have seen bands of Jackdaws take to the air to play and frolic in the wind, like so many black kites.<br /><br />I wonder where from India the Parakeets originally come from - I would have imagined they would be used to showers.TinĂºvielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04794275230697959519noreply@blogger.com