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Royal London Parks

Regent's Park and St. James's Park, London ~ 23rd March 2013 ~

Hello everyone. I must apologise for leaving it so long to write another post; I have been very busy with revising for school exams. In order to make up for my lack of writing, here's a post on a trip a while back:

On Saturday the 23rd March I caught the 8.10 train to London Waterloo with my friend Alex. From there we caught the tube to Regent's Park Station where we met three other young wildlife photographers.

During the day we visited both Regent's Park and St James's Park, only stopping for a hot drink and cake after we had finished at Regent's.

Thank you very much to Danielle for organising the meet-up and thanks to Josh, Jack and Alex for making it such an enjoyable day!!

These are some of the shots I took:

Eurasian Coot (Fulica atra)

Little Grebe (Tachybaptus ruficollis)

Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)

Feral Pigeon (Columba livia)

Eurasian Coots in a scrap (Fulica atra)

Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)

Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)

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North Norfolk Coast

Norfolk ~ Monday 18th - Friday 22nd February 2013 ~

For quite some time Norfolk has been high on my list of places to visit and, after a lot of persuasive conversations with my parents and some not-so-subtle hint dropping, I finally booked a 5 day trip to the north Norfolk Coast during my February half term.

I visited lots of different sites, my favourites being Titchwell and Salthouse. Here are some shots from my fabulous trip:

Black-bellied Dipper. This bird has been frequenting the River Thet for some time so I jumped at the chance when I got the opportunity to visit it!

Another Black-bellied Dipper shot

Apologies if you're getting bored of this bird but this image illustrates the issue of waste polluting our rivers. In this image, the Black-bellied Dipper is perched on what appears to be a crisp packet.

Snowdrops were numerous on the bank of the River Thet and I had to be very careful not to damage them while photographing the Black-bellied Dipper.

Seeing my first Hare in Norfolk was a real privilege, but when this individual let me commando-crawl within 10 metres I just couldn't believe how camouflaged and well adapted they are!

Normally I can never get close to Bar-tailed Godwits, however the birds at Titchwell were very obliging.

At Salthouse lots of Black-headed Gulls joined the Turnstones and Snow Buntings that were feeding on seed, metres from our car (hide).

A nice surprise came in the shape of this Purple Sandpiper that was associating with the Turnstones in the car park at Salthouse.

One of the many Snow Buntings that came down to feast on the seed put out for them.