A couple of days ago my swan-follower reader sent me a picture of the family on Hampstead Pond 1. All present and correct. (Cygnet number 5 was making a break over at the edge of the pond.) But yesterday, on the Boating Pond, there were just the parents….. The buzz is that the cygnets are …
Hampstead Heath
Another casualty…..
Do you remember this fine L-shaped tree? I noticed it some months ago and was so impressed by the perfect symmetry of its fall. Well, sadly, I fear that the upright of the L has fallen victim to the gales of the last ten days. I am not sure when it happened but the leaves …
And yet more music on the heath….
I headed home yesterday afternoon through the wood to a chorus – no a cacophony – of parakeets and crows. I am sure someone will berate me for being unappreciative but, oh where are the tuneful trills of spring?… Anyhow, emerging from the woods I thought I heard someone singing in the distance, so I …
Queen’s Wood oaks win temporary reprieve
Back in July I wrote about the oaks in Queen Wood that were under threat because an insurance company doesn’t want to pay the costs of underpinning the property which they say is threatened by the trees. Well, according to their Change.org petition they have won a brief reprieve:
Victims of the storms
Given this morning’s weather forecast I fear the two below may not be the only trees that we lose on the heath this August. August?….. How come we are losing trees in August!! This huge American red oak came down just above the sports field on East Heath – on the other side of the …
Live at the log
Walking back across the heath this evening checking the storm casualties of the last few days (of which more anon), I found myself following a guy lugging double bass…. Really? But a little further on I discovered where he had been going. To join a small group of jazz musicians who, for the last month, …