No pictures today, having been away from Blacka for a week. But everywhere puts a perspective on Blacka. In South West London, near Hampton Court lies Bushy Park, one of the royal parks. Here you will find Red Deer and Fallow Deer kept in a large enclosure as they were in Henry VIII's time. The character of the Bushy Park animals is quite different to that of the deer on Blacka where they are genuinely wild and the behaviour of the park herds for that reason fails to capture the imagination in the same way.
The other striking thing about Bushy Park was the parakeets. I remembered hearing about these escapes from captivity and the way they were spreading across the London area but had no idea they had become this common. There's some argument about whether they should be culled. Some are very much in favour of this, others say that, non-native though they are we should just accept them.
Back on Blacka and surrounding land even native species are constantly being culled largely unquestioned. In this case it is native trees that are being culled not birds, nor (yet) deer.
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