Wimbledon Park

The long Spring drought broke on the evening of the first day of meteorological summer and we had 2.5cm of rain over 24 hours. 

I did the bird count on the 5th. This confirmed that there was just the one Mute Swan on the lake. I guess that the pen and her brood were g...

I did the monthly bird count on the 4th. There was still quite a lot of singing by resident species, if less than last month and the residen...

Coot numbers remained a near record levels in the count on the 28th. This is suggestive of a resurgence of waterweed, the main food of Coots...

On the 8th, I found out why one of last-year's brood of Mute Swans had been lost from the lake. I had assumed that the, now full-sized, ...