{"id":1308,"date":"2009-02-10T23:02:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T23:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1308"},"modified":"2013-11-16T00:16:49","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T00:16:49","slug":"regents-park-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/regents-park-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Regent’s Park, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Work today meant another trip to London, this time to a conference centre located in Regent's Park. Nice location with a good view of the Post Office Tower as well as the park, but the weather was dull (raining) when I arrived this morning. It had not much improved when I looked out at lunchtime, though these delightful pochards added some colour to the lake.<\/p>\n

Red crested pochard<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

There were ducks<\/a> and gulls of course, but more of a surprise were a pair of black swans<\/a>, one of which was taking a lunchtime stretch. These aren't native, but there are a number of breeding pairs in the wild.<\/p>\n

\"blackBlack swan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

It was when I was leaving in the afternoon and heading back through York Gate to go to the station that I saw what I really looking for: herons. There were several sitting around the edge of the lake, utterly unperturbed by the constant human traffic around them. That's one of the benefits of photographing wildlife in the city: the instinctive caution of the animals has all but gone. The down-side is the risk of being mobbed by pigeons!<\/p>\n

\"heron\"Heron<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"juvenileJuvenile heron<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\"heronHeron in a tree<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/span> Post Office Tower seen from Regent's Park<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
Camera note: all shots taken with the EF70-300mm f\/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM lens, which is ideal for wandering around in urban locations. Much less intrusive than the 100-400 and fine for shots when you can get reasonably close to the subject.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1003,989],"tags":[1179,74,514,515,339],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-heron","tag-london","tag-pochard","tag-regents-park","tag-swan","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t