Peacock strolling around in the sunlight - Kyoto garden, Holland Park, London

On a sunny day just before Christmas my camera and I went for a stroll in London's Holland Park.  I came across a magnificent Peacock in the Kyoto garden.

Here he is posing in the sunlight in front of a Rhododendron bush.

He wandered over to one of the trees in the garden and stood still for a short while

He looked so handsome as he stood in front of the tree trunk and stared at me with the sun shining on his iridescent blue feathers.  What a lovely feathered crown he was wearing!

A cheeky Grey Squirrel popped into view behind the Peacock as he was preening his long feathered tail.

As you can imagine, I took hundreds of photographs that day - especially as he was later joined by a second Peacock pal - so I may add another blog later containing some of my other photos.

Robin's lunch in the park

When I was wandering through the park not long ago, I tried to take photos of a robin who was hiding in a tree and flitting about from branch to branch.  When I managed to find it, the pesky robin moved, so I usually got great pictures of branches and leaves - but no robin.  Below is the only photograph where it actually appeared, though the leaves are in focus and the robin isn't.  However, I rather like it anyway.

Branch and leaves, with robin in the distance

The robin then moved to the ground, where it was not at all disturbed by me taking photographs of it.  A little later I discovered the reason that it stayed put.  There was a lovely long wriggly worm slithering about in the grass and leaves.

Robin Redbreast in the grass near a worm

In this photograph, the robin has it's claws clasped around the poor worm.  At the same time, the robin is still keeping an eye on me.

Robin standing on a worm 

The worm did not stand much chance of getting away - though I must admit that it did escape a few times from the robin, but the bird was definitely not going to let it get away.

Robin with a worm in it's beak

That's nature for you.