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major_clangerToday's plan: Go For A Walk. But we wanted to go somewhere not to far away but nonetheless new. And ideally interesting in its own right.
"How about Greenwich Ecology Park?"
It's certainly easy to get to, being about half a mile south-east of the Dome. Like most of Greenwich Peninsula it used to be industrial site; it then became post-industrial wasteland but has now been remediated into a small marshland wildlife reserve amidst the Lego Duplo architecture of the new housing developments in the area. There's a perimeter walk, but you see most by going through the tiny but informative visitor centre and taking the internal paths, which encourage wildlife-watching by having screened areas with peepholes or by leading to a couple of hides. I'd bought the SLR and zoom lens and ended up with a fair few pictures, some of which I'll put up later. For now though, here's![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
darth_hamster with one of the park's residents, who we found in the small patch containing shelters for hibernating wildlife:
He or she (we didn't get to check) was very affectionate and spent some time following us around. I was a bit surprised to find a cat in what is in large part a bird sanctuary, but he/she did have a bell fitted and most of the significant local birds are waterfowl so perhaps are reasonably safe from the attentions of a moggy.
"How about Greenwich Ecology Park?"
It's certainly easy to get to, being about half a mile south-east of the Dome. Like most of Greenwich Peninsula it used to be industrial site; it then became post-industrial wasteland but has now been remediated into a small marshland wildlife reserve amidst the Lego Duplo architecture of the new housing developments in the area. There's a perimeter walk, but you see most by going through the tiny but informative visitor centre and taking the internal paths, which encourage wildlife-watching by having screened areas with peepholes or by leading to a couple of hides. I'd bought the SLR and zoom lens and ended up with a fair few pictures, some of which I'll put up later. For now though, here's
darth_hamster with one of the park's residents, who we found in the small patch containing shelters for hibernating wildlife:He or she (we didn't get to check) was very affectionate and spent some time following us around. I was a bit surprised to find a cat in what is in large part a bird sanctuary, but he/she did have a bell fitted and most of the significant local birds are waterfowl so perhaps are reasonably safe from the attentions of a moggy.
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Date: 2012-01-08 04:34 pm (UTC)I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find a cat in a bird sanctuary. It's what my boys dream of... (Tho' they'd get rid of any nasty bell, first thing.)
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Date: 2012-01-09 11:56 am (UTC)Not every cat is a mighty hunter (except in their head).
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