A Walk in the Park

On a very blustery day laden with showers, I decided not to venture too far but instead pay a visit to one of the local parks – Leazes Park in the heart of Newcastle, over looked by Newcastle United's football ground. I hadn’t been to this particular park for some time and wouldn’t normally take take ‘wildlife’ photographs at such a location – it somehow seems too easy as the birds are tame, besides, walking around with a telephoto lens in a public area in this paranoid day-and-age is asking for trouble.  So it was with some self consciousness that I spent about an hour taking some photos.  I was surprised at the various number of birds there were there, obviously breeding and on one occasion, saw a large fish jump out of the water, so despite the some of the rubbish in the water, there must have been a decent ecosystem going on helped by passer-by's  with bread crumbs.

St. James Park football stadium in the background

A Magpie making off with some bread

Despite the rubbish, this Coot seemed at home here

No shortage of Pigeons

Canada Goose chicks keeping warm

A Parent keeping a watchful eye