Here are some of DKG’s many pictures of the park in autumn.
Autumn Gallery
A gallery of pictures taken in a wet autumnal reserve.
A look back to 2019: a long tailed tit photographed in the reserve by DKG.
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“It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for – the whole thing – rather than just one or two stars.” David Attenborough
Our park doesn’t have snow leopards or white rhinos. Our rarities are small and fragile: water voles, pondweeds, dragonflies zipping past so suddenly they make you jump, a visiting marsh tit, a linnet singing in the trees, little bottom-feeding fish. Then there are the hundreds of flowering plants, thousands of invertebrates and probably tens of thousands of species of fungi hidden away where we can’t see them.
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The extraordinary flowers of white dead nettles.
Bluebells
Simon Knight has sent us pictures of bluebells and says that this weekend, they will be at their best. Come and see.
Snake’s head fritillaries photographed in the park last week.
A gallery of squirrels
We know they are an invasive alien species that inflicts terrible damage on our trees every year – but they are also much loved, long term park residents.
Header picture by Simon Knight
Our blackthorn blossom has been beautiful this year.
pictures by Suzanne Humphries
Mail and photographs from Chris Seymour:
Good afternoon, just wanted to share my photos with you of my frosty walk around the park this morning. Stopping at my favourite spot by the pond 🙂
Kind regards
Beautiful photographs; thank you, Chris.
A gallery of snowdrops
Header picture by DKG
Snowy morning
by Simon Knight
It was lovely to see the covering of snow on Sunday morning. It never fails to bring back those childhood memories of excited anticipation about getting out outside and playing in it, but maybe that’s just me! I got over to the park at around 8:30am, and although the light was dull, it was lovely to see the park covered in a blanket of white.
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Snow in the park
by Chris Seymour and Ossie Jones
Header picture by Chris Seymour
Oak factoid
There are 2,300 species associated with oak, 320 of which are found only on oaks. Here is a gallery of wildlife photographed in the park’s oaks.
Header picture: Oak Bridge by DKG
Frosty morning in the park
by DKG (2019)
Camouflage
Some of our residents are really quite hard to see. Here are some of DKG’s pictures of the well-camouflaged.
Header picture: public domain.
Misty Morning
photographed by Luiza Bell
Fact of the week
A robin’s lifespan is just 13 months on average due to high mortality among robins in their first year. However, once they’ve passed that first year barrier, they stand a much better chance of surviving for quite a while – the record currently stands at 19 years!
All pictures taken in the park by DKG
DKG
We are saddened to announce the loss of DKG, our gifted in-house photographer; David Keith Galliers died peacefully at home after a short illness.
We will miss his dry sense of humour, his kindness and his hard-working enthusiasm for the park, which he recorded for us in all its seasons and moods. His obsession with early morning light has left us some truly unforgettable images.
Our heartfelt condolences go to his family.
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Wingnut
There is a Chinese wingnut tree (Pterocarya stenoptera) in the Arboretum.
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Frosty Morning
Some of DKG’s gorgeous pictures of frosty mornings in the park.
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A gallery of robins by DKG
A gallery of autumn leaves
A long tailed tit photographed last year in the park by DKG.
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