Today Sue and went for a walk around the grounds of Eltham Palace I was particularly interested to see what … More
Author: Pete
I am semi-retired after a career in medical sciences. I now work from home doing independent research and consultancy amongst other things. One advantage of this is that I do have time to indulge my interests including birdwatching, natural history, steam trains and history particularly ancient history.
Some good news, some bad news
This morning I did the second, and final, summer walk this year for the BTO Breeding Birds survey at Eltham … More
A walk around the local patch
After the bad weather of the past few days it was a relief on Tuesday to see Blue skies and … More
Abbotts Court
A trip down to visit Keith last week, on his home patch at Abbotts Court on the Isle of Grain … More
Gnarled Trees
One of the great delights of visiting long-established parks like Hyde Park are the wonderful gnarled trees that grow there. … More
Wow how did I miss that!
When I was doing my local patch walk last week, I noticed a Bee behaving rather strangely, so I took … More
A walk at the Wetland Centre
I visited the London Wetland Centre last week to look for some early season butterflies and dragonflies. I only saw … More
8 Geese a-bathing
Sue and I were walking by the Tarn the other day and the young Greylag Geese were have a bathe. … More
Statues and Monuments: Peter Pan
Whilst visiting Hyde Park recently, I came across the statue of Peter Pan. The statue was commissioned by the writer … More
Year of the Child
This statue is located in Hyde Park near the Look Out education centre. It is bronze and was made by … More
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