ED Nature Watch

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Wow!

[PeckhamRose]

I know!

[reetpetite]

Another Wow !

[SimonM]

Grrr....I am still trying to catch a sight of the cormorant...now there's a kestrel to look out for too?! Whereabouts was this?

[reetpetite]

Haven't seen the cormorant for about a week now so he might have moved on.

[woofmarkthedog]

I saw a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Peckham, all golden it was ......WOW

MMMMmmmm

[reetpetite]

P*** taker.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Invasion of the duckling snatchers ...

Just seen three huge carp in the lake - one of them over a foot long. That could account for the high body count. There is a new duckling today, so I hope it survives.

[louisiana]

We had a bird fly into the back door and knock himself out. Looked like a gonner, but after a couple of minutes he was lying on his side shaking, then fifteen minutes later he was moving around a little near the wall of the house, and finally he took off.

Carp may also see off any frogs BTW.

[reetpetite]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Invasion of the duckling snatchers ...

>

> Just seen three huge carp in the lake - one of

> them over a foot long. That could account for the

> high body count. There is a new duckling today, so

> I hope it survives.

There were 2 ducklings at 7am this morning but only 1 an hour later !:(

[reetpetite]

Also saw the Carp last year they were huge.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Ooh, ooh, ooh - I've just seen a kingfisher at the small lake.

Lot's more to report - just need to do some species checking.

[Moos]

Hurray, hurray, the kingfisher's back! I have seen it a couple of times (but not in the last year or so) by the small pond in the Japanese garden, is that the one you mean?

Keep us informed, PGC.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Yup, that's the one. I was tipped the wink by the litter-picker-upper, so sat for five mins and was rewarded by a blur of orange.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Notonecta glauca - waterboatman on stream to left of oval by the main gates

100s of Minnows (I think) and one moorhen chick in Japanese Garden lake

9 new ducklings on big lake

And several unusual bugs in the meadow parts wot I can't identify.

Quite a few previously unseen roustabouts on the common.

[SteveT]

PGC wrote:- Quite a few previously unseen roustabouts on the common.

I didn't know they were an endangered species.

Roughnecks are also a common enough breed around this neck of the woods too.;-)

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I'm sure it's not related to the above, but I came across some very noisy, copulating crickets this afternoon.

[SteveT]

PGC was it in the White Horse Peckham?

They have a thing about cricket coverage............I read somewhere;-)

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Ha ha.

[PeckhamRose]

Just had to share. They've grown a little since...

[reetpetite]

Beautiful,

[reetpetite]

The new ducklings are very dark do you think mum has has had a dalliance with a coot ?

[TheePope]

Evening nature lovers! I haven't been to Rye park for ages and it sounds like there's loads going on nature wise so I must have a look. I thought the Kingfisher was a wind up but obviously not!

Anyway, I saw this on a leaflet and thought it might be of interest to some of you. It's an eveing tour of the 'Medicine Garden' at the Horniman, another place I haven't been to for a while.

More info in the link

http://www.horniman.ac.uk/events/thursday.php

[Sue]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> Just saw a kestral, yes a kestral, with a mouse in

> his beak, being chased by a magpie!

xxxxxx

I had one in my garden last year, it sat on the ground in the corner with its claws in a starling. I only saw it because the poor starling was making such a racket and I went to see what was going on. It was practically as big as my garden :)

[SteveT]

It sounds more like the behaviour of a sparrow hawk to me Sue