{"id":1804,"date":"2010-12-21T21:12:40","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T21:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1804"},"modified":"2013-11-09T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T23:12:10","slug":"regents-park-in-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/regents-park-in-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"Regent’s Park in the Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

I'm still snowed in as far as the car is concerned. The problem now is the smaller roads. Untreated, at 6.30am they are sheets of ice. It's fine when you reach the main roads (all bus routes are gritted) so it was an early trudge through the ice and then a bus to the station. While waiting at the stop, I noticed some rabbits out in the field. Impossible to see them in this shot, but they're somewhere on the far side.
<\/span> South Downs before dawn<\/span><\/p>\n

The thaw has started, but there's still snow on the ground in London.
<\/span> Regent's Park at lunchtime<\/span><\/p>\n

The squirrels were hungrily seeking what food they could.
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Town squirrels lack all propriety, and these ones are given to clambering up anything that's not moving. Including me :right:
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The lake was frozen, as you'd expect, though this bar-headed goose seem unconcerned about such things.
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The herons were also active. A number were perching in the trees (see the second shot above), but not all.
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The Canada Geese were congregating nearer one of the entrances where there's plenty of human traffic (= food), along with the pigeons, coots and a trio of mute swans.
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No rats (I looked), but a winter entry isn't complete without one small creature in the snow… so here's the perfect winter bird: a robin in the snow. :smurf:
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Panasonic FZ45.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1003,16,50,989],"tags":[1179,515,78,1136,1141,339],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-2","category-snow","category-squirrel","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-heron","tag-regents-park","tag-robin","tag-snow","tag-squirrel","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