The biggest urban park in the UK...

[junglebear]

Richmond Park! Although I wouldn't really call it a park, or urban for that matter...

I went out there today to try my hand at a bit of wildlife photography, not too happy with the results but I'll be damned if I'm sitting on the tube for 2 hours with nothing to show for it!



A male red deer reclining under the shade of a tree, a magnificent creature



I tried to get closer and he promptly darted!



This is actually a parakeet, unfortunately I couldn't get the right angle to show it's bright green feathers before it took off



The light was too good not to take this

Richmond Park wiki if anyone's interested, it's my favourite park in London, more like a nature reserve really.

Thanks for looking!

[sheltiesmama]

That spider is very scary looking. Looks huge. The other shots are really good as well, love the deer.

[eaglesfan]

beautiful shots. i will have to come to London just to go there. lol. and holy cow, that's a big deer!

[leonaashlee]

These are nice shots...love the web/spider. Nice work.

[Ella1267]

Absolutely amazing.....I can't believe how close that deer is sitting to that lady by the pond....very cool.

[fstopMike]

Looks like there's a lot of wildlife there. The spider is magnificent and that deer is really big! It looks like you could get pretty close. thanks for sharing.

[junglebear]

Thanks for the comments

Originally Posted by Ella1267

Absolutely amazing.....I can't believe how close that deer is sitting to that lady by the pond....very cool.

She's actually quite far away, compared to me and this guy!
There's a popuation of 650 in this park, which gets a lot of visitors so they're surprisingly tame for such large and powerful animals.