Ducks

I don't get far from home but I did get down to Peckham Rye Park recently. I saw a lot of ducks.

End of summer

As autumn is very nearly upon us the weather has certainly changed. As leaves fall from the trees in great numbers, in the garden this week I spied a migrant hawker, which was very exciting...if you like that kind of thing.
I also spent some time in the cemetery. No decent pictures were taken, none whatsoever, but I did see a green woodpecker. I seem to have accidentally discovered one of their favourite hideouts. Hopefully I'll remember exactly where it was, (it's like a labyrinth in there), and will return with pictures of woodpeckers sometime soon. I'm not holding my breath.

Brown Hawker

Wild Geranium Stem

I also found another heron picture that I didn't delete!

Grey Heron

Until next time,

Claude
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Heron earth...

This week I learnt a valuable lesson. It's always advisable to avoid emptying your trash can when you've just put your best pictures in there. My yowls could be heard right across SE15 when I realised that, in either a moment of subliminal self-sabotage or a lapse in concentration, I had deleted all the best pictures I'd taken of a grey heron. Now that I've experienced that unforgettable sense of horror, a sensation which sinks and rises simultaneously, I would be very surprised if I ever made such a foolish mistake again. I returned to Peckham Rye in the hope of getting some more snaps of the heron. I did get some more but they weren't nearly as satisfying.


First attempt...

Second attempt...

Until next time, (assuming that I don't delete my next set of photographs)

Claude

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Peckham Pond

Hardly a day has gone by recently without rain showers, the occasional storm, and plenty of gusty breezes. None of this overly inspires me to drag myself out of my cat basket to go and take some photos. However, despite overcast and showery forecast, this week I did take myself off down to Peckham Rye. There are some of the results.

Moorhen chick

Canada Goose

 

Until next time,

Claude

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Crows

"Mine!"

Until next time,
Claude
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Flock of gulls

I made myself feel a little dizzy trying to follow this lot through the sky with my camera - just to clarify I was on the ground, attempting to pan smoothly. I haven't yet discovered the mystery of flight.

Until next time,
Claude
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Squirrel!!!

A lazy afternoon in the park!!

Until next time,
Claude
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Herons

I don't seem to be able to go to Peckham Rye without seeing one of these beauties!

Until next time,
Claude
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Moorhens

Until next time,
Claude
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Ducks

Some ducks seen last year on the pond at Peckham Rye.

Until next time,
Claude
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As bald as a...

As you can see from snaps of this beauty, (taken last year on Peckham Rye), it's a bit of a misnomer that coots are bald!

Check out those feet!

Until next time,
Claude
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Parakeets

The first birds I ever saw in London were a pair of Ring-Necked Parakeets. Nobody had mentioned that they're quite common around here so I assumed they were escaped pets. Being as beautiful as they are, they look very tropical against the drab of SE London on a grey day.

Eating seeds high in the treetops of Peckham Rye




A bit of a stretch in Nunhead cemetery

Until next time,
Claude
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