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St James Park – Wildlife Band

At the East End of St James Park, London

So let me introduce to you, The one and only Billy Shears, And Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Ruddy Duck

Ruddy Duck (really)

It was twenty years ago today, Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play, They’ve been going in and out of style, But they’re guaranteed to raise a smile, So may I introduce to you, The act you’ve known for all these years, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Ruddt Duck 2

We’re Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, We hope you will enjoy the show

Teal Duck

We’re Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Sit back and let the evening go

Goose - St James Park

It’s wonderful to be here

Tufted Duck
It’s certainly a thrill
Duck St James Park 2
You’re such a lovely audience

We’d like to take you home with us

Duck - St James Park 1
We’d love to take you home

Swans

Oh we would, we would.    –  Why are you doing that with your leg ?  I don’t know, he started it.

Black Swan

More feathers than sense that lot.

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Find the Squirrel (its in the middle).

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Here’s one.  Here’s some more  (in a new tab).

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I am Moorhen than Duck

St James park Flowers

I don’t really want to stop the show, But I thought that you might like to know, That the singer’s going to sing a song, And he wants you all to sing along

St james park Flower

We’re Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
We hope you will enjoy the show
We’re Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sit back and let the evening go
Sgt. Pepper’s lonely, Sgt. Pepper’s lonely
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band ~

We hope you enjoyed the show and thank you for visiting.


The Great Nut Heist

At the Eastern End of St James’s Park

This time I took some food.  I put down the carrier bag to take out my camera and ~

“Right, I’ll do the old squirrel up the leg routine”.

Squirrel up Leg

 

“You do the blag”

Squirrel in Bag

 

Cute Squirrel

“I’ll do the snatch.  I’m so cute the rozzers will never suspect”

Rich Squirrel

“Oh my, Oh my, Oh my. I’m rich I tell you, rich”

Squirrel on Knee

“Well now that’s all sorted out, a nice little sit down on this handy leggy thing”

St James's Park Squirrel

“Cor blimey governor, it ain’t ‘alf  a good bit of cashew this.”

Squirrel on Post

“A nice piece of walnut for me.  I say, any chance of liqueur”.

Tightrope Squirrel

“Look it’s the great Squirreldini”

Crow

“Blasted squirrels.  Any of us could do that if we wanted too”

Coot

“What, with these feet”

Squirrel by Flash

We don’t have much and life can be hard, but:-

Sittin’ in the morning sun
I’ll be sittin’ when the evening comes
Watching the ships roll in
Then I watch them roll away again, yeah

I’m sittin’ on the dock of the bay
Watchin’ the tide roll away, ooh
I’m just sittin’ on the dock of the bay
Wastin’ time

  Otis Redding Listen on Youtube

There are more squirrels at Squirrels in the Park and  Squirrels Up My Leg


Squirrels with Altitude

I’ve always considered myself to be quite animal friendly, and animals quite friendly to me.  Nevertheless, at the south east corner of St James’s Park Lake, I was quite surprised by this.

Squirrel up Leg

I discovered why squirrels are so good at climbing trees.  Those little claws are sharp.

When he or she looked up and realised that this tree had a face, there was a quick scamper off behind a real tree.

Then, would you ~
The Adam and Eve Pub

 it.

There was another one.

Squirrel Further Up Leg

At first I thought this must be the same squirrel, but a close examination of the whiskers shows a variation and there is slightly darker patch at the left shoulder.  I think they must have been siblings and the little scamps were playing “Anything you can do, I can do better”.

Even the geese were surprised.

Surprised Goose

Wha’  the ~.

Still, they were only having fun in their own squirrely way.   Good on them, they make me laugh and I feel quite privileged to have had squirrels up my leg.

There are more squirrels at the Great Nut Heist.