RE: Is This A Deer In Richmond Park?
I took photos facing away from the sea 🌊 too @the-gorilla and I walked through East Dean once when I had to make my way back to Brighton for my train back to London but I missed the last coastal bus 🚌 which stops right by Birling Gap past the Café. I’ve also done the flat walk back saying hello to the cows and sheep 🐑 on the way. The last photos in your latest Seven Sisters post look like from that bit and I do like the thumbnail photo with the white cliffs. I like how you love sharing photos of the area and I do hope some people were inspired to go and check it out one day. Nearly every time I was in the area I met and spoke to even international tourists and students who came especially for the Seven Sisters having red about it online.
It’s truly awesome you’ve got resident woodpeckers! Great spotted or green woodpeckers?🤔 I saw a very hungry great spotted woodpecker the start of July this year around Darts Farm, Devon but I just managed to take two (not the greatest) photos of it.
Robins are quite used to humans and they’ve learned that when we work in the garden it’s very likely there will be worms for them. I’m also lucky to have a pair of resident robins which had little ones the past 2 years in a row. Last year in May, during lockdown I even managed to photo an Adult Robin Feeding A Baby on our brick patio garden wall. Thought you might enjoy the photo and maybe I should do more birds posts here in WOX.💁♀️
They've got green bellies and I thought I had a photo of them pecking at my lawn (but I can't find it ☹)
Instead, I found a bad picture of 2 robins who came to visit me when I was cutting some bushes back 🙂
That's an amazing photo of the robins feeding - to be fortunate enough to witness it is remarkable in itself but to have your camera at the ready is very good going indeed.
When I lived in East Dean, there would always be a group of Chinese tourists waiting for the bus, (having just visited Birling Gap and then heading down to Cuckmere Haven). What part of London do you live in?
Sounds like @the-gorilla they can well be green woodpeckers which are the largest woodpeckers here in Britain. An adult is usually just under 35 centimetres long. So if yours are so big, they certainly are green woodpeckers.
I always like when I see a pair of birds. The more, the merrier. Your robins look quite well fed so they must be finding what they need near your house.
You got me right, exactly the tourists I also came across when in the area. I like that they leave the city behind and try to explore the countryside on their own which can be an adventure dealing with public transport, etc. compared to an organised coach tour.
I live in North West London, walking distance (too long walk there and back for the majority of people☝️) from Hampstead Heath. I like the area. It is clean, safe, well connected to central London, the airports and there are quite a few parks nearby. It certainly isn't the liveliest of areas, lacks a variety of places to eat and drink out but you can't have it all..
I'll try to take a photo next time I see it nearby - my photography skills suck and I've only seen it flying around (and not in the tree) recently so it could be tricky.
Our robins are very well fed. Not as well fed as the squirrels that have eaten all of our strawberries but well fed all the same 🙂
I only ventured up to Hampstead a few times so don't really know it very well. I remember tree-lined streets and lots of Victorian houses (which had been converted into flats!)
Oh Dear! I never thought @the-gorilla that squirrels would eat strawberries! We also have a naughty squirrel and I am growing strawberries too. I started the strawberries quite late this year, so they are still in bloom. The squirrel though loves grabbing the peanut feeder with its front paws while hanging upside down from a branch of a tree trying to have some nuts. Whenever I see the squirrel showing its acrobatic skills I go and shake the tree. The squirrel doesn't like it but who knows it will probably get used to it and start to enjoy it.🙃
I think that everybody I've said this to has been surprised too but they've eaten almost every strawberry we've grown for the last 2 years. the-toddler-gorrila loves strawberries so it makes me sad ☹
🤣 That would make another impressive photo!