Photographs by Peter Loud

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Moorhen feeding chick

My garden is about the size of a table cloth, but because it is next to a marina off The Grand Union Canal I get an interesting selection of wildlife in it. I don't regard myself as a wildlife photographer. They are a specialist breed with expensive long lenses and lots of patience. All I have is a £40 lens from eBay, but I do get some good opportunities.

Moorhen chicks

This is one of a brood of 7. Within 10 days they were reduced to 4 by a greedy pike and possibly a local cat.

Pike
I was sitting in my garden having a cup of tea, then these appeared in front of me

Pike

Newly hatched cygnets, 2010, and 2011 below.

In 2010 there were 8 eggs, 7 hatched, one cygnet disappeared in the first week.

In 2011 there were 9 eggs, 9 hatched. One cygnet disappeared in the first week, another after 3 weeks.
It's now 2012, there are 8 eggs, but they haven't hatched yet.





Female Swan, Pen.

Male Swan, Cob.

Swan attacks goose

Canada Goose






Grey Heron, Ardea cinerea




Just ordinary ducklings
Nine ducklings were hatched, within 10 days all of them had disappeared,
eaten by the greedy pike or a local cat.




There are other birds around, but I don't have any good photos of them.

Tufted Duck

Mandarin Duck





Signal Crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus
Yes, this was taken in my garden. There are crayfish in the marina.


Beans from my garden


African Red Tailed, Grey Cockatoo,
Yes, this was in the garden, someone must have lost their £1,000 pet parrot.





Long eared owl
No, it wasn't in my garden, it was in Northumberland.
I don't have any other wildlife webpage to put it on :-(



I forgot about these fish photos taken in 2004 on a little 3Mp camera.


Carp

Carp, with neighbour who fished, 2004


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