17-08-2008, 05:22 PM
It's another forum... I'm already linked in to the WAB site, home of the 2000 phantom users - and the "Simon King" forum. I'm based in South London - there's a small garden which is allowed to run utterly wild and used to have a fox that sunbathed on the shed roof... until the neighbours put up a secure fence;there are some old logs where stag beetles drop by in the summer and I have even found newts living there though there's no pond in sight.
In recent years I have spent a lot of my spare time over at Richmond Park. I'm not an avid birdwatcher though I do take advantage of their expertise, and I am rather fond of the little owls! I actively dislike the ring-necked parakeets. My particular preference is for the fallow deer who are rather the poor relations in the deer park, though their behaviour is many ways more interesting than the larger red deer and I have spent more hours than I care to think trying to track down particular groups.
I'm afraid I'm not much into 'real' wildlife photography - I prefer to watch what animals do and my clunky binoculars weigh too much to carry a real camera as well - and there are plenty of people walking round the park with photographic rocket launchers. I do carry a pocket 'point & shoot' of limited pixels which occasionally delivers. That said, ! sometimes borrow a small video camera from work when there's something interesting going on. Some of the output from those expeditions can be seen on the "Deerisible" channel at YouTube. If you do look at it go in via the playlists otherwise it will make little sense! BUt I'm here to see what people are talking about...
In recent years I have spent a lot of my spare time over at Richmond Park. I'm not an avid birdwatcher though I do take advantage of their expertise, and I am rather fond of the little owls! I actively dislike the ring-necked parakeets. My particular preference is for the fallow deer who are rather the poor relations in the deer park, though their behaviour is many ways more interesting than the larger red deer and I have spent more hours than I care to think trying to track down particular groups.
I'm afraid I'm not much into 'real' wildlife photography - I prefer to watch what animals do and my clunky binoculars weigh too much to carry a real camera as well - and there are plenty of people walking round the park with photographic rocket launchers. I do carry a pocket 'point & shoot' of limited pixels which occasionally delivers. That said, ! sometimes borrow a small video camera from work when there's something interesting going on. Some of the output from those expeditions can be seen on the "Deerisible" channel at YouTube. If you do look at it go in via the playlists otherwise it will make little sense! BUt I'm here to see what people are talking about...