Cottage development!!

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Walking on the Surrey side of the Thames between Hammersmith and Putney today, and looking into the ground, it appears that the Cottage is being re-roofed. Not quite redevelopment of the Riverside but it's a start of sorts I suppose. Even better, I saw a kingfisher in Beverley Brook where it joins the Thames. Amazing to think how clean the river is now. When I was a boy, old navy MTB boats were moored in Beverley Brook, with people living in them, such was the housing shortage in the 1950's. Plus ca change, I might have said if we hadn't Brexited last week.

[Holders]

No beavers though?

[Holders]

Or Alligators

Alligatorley brook?

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You're all being silly. I shall stop posting nature notes if you don't take them seriously.

[The Old Count]

Some Rangers supporters had the lead off of it so it had to be replaced

[Holders]

You're all being silly. I shall stop posting nature notes if you don't take them seriously.

Are you serious?

It's great that you saw a kingfisher in London.  The alligator comment was obviously wide of the mark but my comment wasn't flippant - Beverley Brook is obviously derived from beaver ley (where ley is a meadow), hence Beaver Meadow Brook. It wouldn't have been named that for nothing. There are wild beavers in Devon (on the River Otter) and experimental re-establishments at another site in Devon and one in Scotland. The data showing their potential for a very positive impact in flood reduction by smoothing water flows is significant. Informed people, including to my knowledge some in Somerset, which was so badly affected by the floods a couple of years ago, are seriously talking abut them being a larger part of the solution. Same in Cumbria, maybe, but upstream re-afforestation would also be effective there.

My own nature notes: in Pembrokeshire last week choughs, a merlin and wall-to-wall puffins so numerous that they were like bees round a hive. If you wanted you could have touched them. A kingfisher in London must be a rarer sighting though.

[Forever Fulham]

You're all being silly. I shall stop posting nature notes if you don't take them seriously.

Are you serious?

It's great that you saw a kingfisher in London.  The alligator comment was obviously wide of the mark but my comment wasn't flippant - Beverley Brook is obviously derived from beaver ley (where ley is a meadow), hence Beaver Meadow Brook. It wouldn't have been named that for nothing. There are wild beavers in Devon (on the River Otter) and experimental re-establishments at another site in Devon and one in Scotland. The data showing their potential for a very positive impact in flood reduction by smoothing water flows is significant. Informed people, including to my knowledge some in Somerset, which was so badly affected by the floods a couple of years ago, are seriously talking abut them being a larger part of the solution. Same in Cumbria, maybe, but upstream re-afforestation would also be effective there.

My own nature notes: in Pembrokeshire last week choughs, a merlin and wall-to-wall puffins so numerous that they were like bees round a hive. If you wanted you could have touched them. A kingfisher in London must be a rarer sighting though.

The merlin is a beautiful small falcon.  I didn't know it was native to Britain.  Fairly plentiful in North America.  Some have bluish feathers, quite striking.  BTW, isn't the proper term for establishing a forest that was once there, reforestation?  Maybe I'm wrong; I'd better look that up. 

[Holders]

You're all being silly. I shall stop posting nature notes if you don't take them seriously.

Are you serious?

It's great that you saw a kingfisher in London.  The alligator comment was obviously wide of the mark but my comment wasn't flippant - Beverley Brook is obviously derived from beaver ley (where ley is a meadow), hence Beaver Meadow Brook. It wouldn't have been named that for nothing. There are wild beavers in Devon (on the River Otter) and experimental re-establishments at another site in Devon and one in Scotland. The data showing their potential for a very positive impact in flood reduction by smoothing water flows is significant. Informed people, including to my knowledge some in Somerset, which was so badly affected by the floods a couple of years ago, are seriously talking abut them being a larger part of the solution. Same in Cumbria, maybe, but upstream re-afforestation would also be effective there.

My own nature notes: in Pembrokeshire last week choughs, a merlin and wall-to-wall puffins so numerous that they were like bees round a hive. If you wanted you could have touched them. A kingfisher in London must be a rarer sighting though.

The merlin is a beautiful small falcon.  I didn't know it was native to Britain.  Fairly plentiful in North America.  Some have bluish feathers, quite striking.  BTW, isn't the proper term for establishing a forest that was once there, reforestation?  Maybe I'm wrong; I'd better look that up. 

I think it depends on which side of the Atlantic you are!

I like wildlife but I'm no twitcher - but I spent half an hour looking at birds last Thursday (referendum day!) which is more than I'd done in the rest of my life put together. I was on a cliff-top looking down and the merlin seemed to have a nest on the cliff-face and the choughs were scavenging. Both birds are quite rare here, I'm told, and it was nice to see them.