Posts Tagged With: wildlife

Yorkshire Wildlife Park

For my birthday back in May I decided that I’d like to go back to Yorkshire Wildlife Park. The last time we went, all the way back in 2016 (!) we were very impressed but we were even more so this time. They’ve expanded greatly and everywhere looks fantastic with a whole shopping area just before the entrance plus larger enclosures for all the animals. I’ve been to a few wildlife parks lately which have cheetahs (my favourite wild animal) but they hadn’t been out and about so I was incredibly happy to see so many here and be able to take photos of them.

Continue reading
Categories: England, Yorkshire | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Arundel Wetland Centre

For my last full day in Arundel I knew that I wanted to spend my time exploring the Arundel Wetland Centre. It’s an easy walk from the town centre – simply walk by the entrance to the castle and continue all the way down the street, over a bridge then continue until you see the entrance on the right – it takes maybe 15 to 20 minutes. Do note that part of the route has no pavement but it’s a wide track and easy to navigate safely. There is of course a car park if you’re driving.

Continue reading
Categories: Arundel, England, West Sussex | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Holme Pierrepont Country Park, Nottingham

Taking advantage of the beautiful sunshine I ventured out to Holme Pierrepont Country Park recently to explore an area I hadn’t been to since I was a child. The park is home to the National Watersports Centre and British Canoeing and where many years ago I went on a school trip to try out kayaking. There are several walks around the site and I started by doing one that went through the woods but even though we haven’t had rain for a while it was surprisingly boggy so I recalibrated and went for a less muddy walk around the regatta lake instead.

Continue reading
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

Garden Visitors

Every so often I do a post about the birds and animals I’ve photographed in the garden. We’ve had quite a few interesting visitors that I haven’t managed to photograph or that we’ve only caught on our nature camera overnight such as cats, hedgehogs, foxes and once quite memorably a badger but there are others that stuck around long enough for me to grab my camera. One such creature was this rat which had taken a liking to the seeds I put out for the birds (I moved the bird feeder around and took a break from re-filling it and this worked for a little while). [Since starting to write this post I found the rat dead in our garden – RIP].

Continue reading
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Great Orme via West Shore Beach, Llandudno

After visiting the West Shore Beach and walking all the way to Deganwy and back I then ventured partly up the Great Orme. I didn’t venture very far; I’d done a considerable amount of walking by that point but as it was the last day of my holiday I pushed on for a bit to see the views from this side of the Orme.

Continue reading
Categories: Llandudno, Wales | Tags: , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Pen-Y-Dinas Hillfort, The Great Orme, Llandudno

I hadn’t particularly planned on walking up the Great Orme on this trip since I’d been up there before, but then found myself doing so on three different occasions. On this journey I simply decided I was still in a walking mood after being at the Happy Valley Botanical Gardens so I followed the road from the top of the gardens until I came across a trail going upwards and decided to see where it went. At it turned out it was to the site of the Pen-Y-Dinas Hillfort.

Continue reading
Categories: Llandudno, Wales | Tags: , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Conwy Quayside

You can’t visit Conwy without taking a walk along the quayside and admiring the boats and the seemingly larger than life seagulls. There’s a pub and fish and chips shop, plus a stall selling ice creams and hot drinks etc. There are also boat trips available (I did one of these which will feature in a later post) and the quay leads on to part of the Wales Coast Path (various sections of which will also feature in later posts).

Continue reading
Categories: England | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Regent’s Park, London

The area that is now Regent’s Park once belonged to the monks of Barking Abbey until Henry VIII dissolved the monastery and turned it into a hunting park. In 1835 it became a public park on the instructions of the future King George IV who at the time was the Prince Regent (ruling in place of his mentally ill father George III until his death in 1820 when he became George IV). That’s why the park is The Regent’s Park, but hardly anyone ever calls it that.

Continue reading
Categories: England, London | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Highfields Park, Nottingham

Owned by Nottingham City Council this 21 hectare park is so close to the University of Nottingham that it is often confused for being part of the campus. It is probably decades since the last time I spent any time here, despite trips nearby in recent years, but over the spring we managed a long overdue walk around the lake.

Continue reading
Categories: England, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Lotherton: Wildlife World

Lotherton is an Edwardian house and country estate with gardens, extensive grounds, a deer park and a small zoo. When I first visited back in 2013 you couldn’t take photos inside the house and Wildlife World was originally a bird garden. Much has changed since then however and I’m splitting these posts into the zoo, the house, the chapel and the gardens, starting with our first destination of the zoo. There is still more of a concentration on birds here than on the animals they’ve since acquired and one of my favourites was this lovely Edward’s pheasant, named after a former director of the Natural History Museum in Paris.

Continue reading
Categories: England, Leeds, Yorkshire | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Blog at WordPress.com.