London Wetland Centre
For my 50th birthday Jonathon bought me a day with Iain Green, one of our favourite wildlife photographers. Iain's a big fan of London Wetland Centre in Barnes, South West London (and so am I now I've spent a day there with him).
We had a great day with lots of wildlife to photograph as you'll see below.
It's a lovely green space with plenty of room to stroll around.
This cheeky chappy was very kind a did a few different poses for us
There were lots of flowers and plants to photograph as well as the birds and other flying things!
2 of the lawnmowers are in the photo on the left.
There were lots of insects around, some prettier than others and, of course, loads and loads of water fowl.
These Coots were apparently fighting for territory - they did seem pretty aggressive.
The Dragon Flies were not at all easy to photograph - they either hid, were camoflaged or were simply too fast.
There were also lots of Frogs around, peeping out of the water
The bees, moths and other insects loved the scabious.
What a lovely Damsel Fly - such beautiful colours
This is a smaller Grebe than the Great Crested ones but still very pretty
Lots of duckings and other baby birds were swimming around
London Wetland Centre covers 42 hectares, a short train journey away from Waterloo Station in London. It's hard to believe that this area used to house 4 old, concrete reservoirs - so much prettier now!
The Herons will perch anywhere to get a good view
There was Loosestrife everywhere making lovely purple swathes of colour
It's one of nine specialist wetland visitor centres, part of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust that was founded in 1946 by Sir Peter Scott
Apparently these little Plovers are usually further away so we were very lucky to get a photo or two.
As you can see, the colours were stunning
These are Six Spotted Burnet Moths - lovely colours and very keen on the scabious and other flowers.
I had a wonderful day and hope to go back there with Jonathon and his camera one day so he can enjoy it as well.
