Shag in Brockwell Park!

[Mrs Magpie]

Well actually, it might be a Cormorant...Enid Laundromat has just phoned to tell me there is one in the duckpond. She is the sort of girl who likes walking in the park in the rain and always alerts me to interesting Natural History in the vicinity....

 

[SubZeroCat]

I thought this was gonna be another one of those urban orgy/sex scandal threads

 

[Pieface]

I like cormorants.

I like shags too.

This thread is doomed you know, Mrs M

 

[boohoo]

Isn't there a grey heron up at the park? I've seen one flying over Stockwell tube and my dad said it's from the park.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I see a fair few Heron...they always remind me of Pteradactyls when they are in flight. There is one on the Stockwell Park Estate pond too.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Just before I posted this thread there were 5 people viewing the Brixton forum...then suddenly there were 19. It has afforded me some amusement.

 

[lang rabbie]

If you join the Brockwell e-mail group, your inbox will rapidly fill up with high definition photos of interesting birdlife spotted in the Park.

You will then spend fruitless hours failing to find these birds when you visit Brockwell Park the following weekend.

 

[purves grundy]

Pretty far inland for a shag, although it wouldn't be unheard of.

 

[Loki]

I thought this was gonna be another one of those urban orgy/sex scandal threads

Yes, naughty Mrs M! *walks off disappointed*

 

[rennie]

exits thread...

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Pretty far inland for a shag, although it wouldn't be unheard of.

I've seens both Shags and Cormorants on the Thames.

 

[SubZeroCat]

Yes, naughty Mrs M! *walks off disappointed*

No! Enough of the incest. I want to be able to sleep well tonight....

 

[girasol]

oh, allright then... I looked too... for the wrong reasons...

 

[Loki]

tbh I never knew there was a bird called a shag, which made the topic all the more cruel

 

[Pieface]

I didn't know they were so similar. I think I saw a shag on the Thames up by Barnes the other week then - I thought it was a cormorant at the time.

 

[hendo]

I think I've seen Shags in America.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I think they call them Black Shags in the US...not very au fait with North American Ornithology though hendo.

 

[Callie]

Id be more impressed if it was gannet

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Enid only has a really crappy dappy camera with her. She's hoping to get a good pic, but she's a bit far away and the camera is only showing a wee speck with the ones she's taken so far.

 

[milesy]

did it lay it's eggs in a paper bag?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I was waiting for someone to come along with that one milesy!

 

[boohoo]

I'm a bit spoilt for birds as I live near the River Lea and we have two reservoirs at Manor house and reservoirs at Tottenham Hale which house one of the biggest Heron and Comorant nesting sites in the UK.

I always think grey herons looked like something designed by an art nouveau artist.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Walter Crane?



gets coat

 

[boohoo]

hoho!

Actually in Stamford Hill we have some exceptional Walter Crane stain glass in a rather odd church which was built for a victorian "free love" sect called the Agapemonites!

 

[purves grundy]

I've seens both Shags and Cormorants on the Thames.

Yeah, more likely to see em on the Thames. But on an inland pond in summer - far more likely to be a cormorant innit

 

[Mrs Magpie]

To be fair, Enid reckons it's a Cormorant, but I didn't think 'Cormorant in Brockwell Park' would get many views...and Loki and PieEye have learned something new...which makes me a happy Magpie.

 

[lang rabbie]

hoho!

Actually in Stamford Hill we have some exceptional Walter Crane stain glass in a rather odd church which was built for a victorian "free love" sect called the Agapemonites!

Ooo! The one near Clapton Common with the sinister statues of the beasts of the evangelists on the spire, now occupied by the "The Cathedral Church of The Good Shepherd Ancient Catholic Church" with their monthly "animal blessing services".

*** KITTEN IMAGES ALERT ***
There's a picture of the Church Notice Board at:
clapton.freeservers.com/images/board.jpg
(you'll need to paste this into a browser address window after http://)

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Won't allow linking, lang rabbie do it in 'longhand' without the www so we can paste in in....

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Great pic...I've saved it as 'Ancient Catholic kitten'.

 

[purves grundy]

To be fair, Enid reckons it's a Cormorant, but I didn't think 'Cormorant in Brockwell Park' would get many views...and Loki and PieEye have learned something new...which makes me a happy Magpie.

Cormorants are great though. So primitive, always make think of pterodactyls