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I enjoyed that walk this morning. Thanks for taking me where I would be very unlikely ever to visit.
Jo W | 01.09.22 - 7:33 a.m. | #
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A glimpse of a kingfisher makes a day. I used to live near Morden Hall Park where I'd occasional catch this shy bird on my early morning run following the River Wandle, usually spotted when it was calm and sunny.
Rod | 01.09.22 - 7:53 a.m. | #
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OK so I'm off to the River Crane.
The turtle is a non-native red eared terrapin and the probable offspring of the Ninja Turtle craze from years ago. So not to be celebrated but their effect on bird life hasn't yet been the eco-disaster predicted by some. There are loads in the canal at Perivale-and in Syon Park.
The only eel you will see by day will probably be a dead one as they like to stay in the murk and usually travel at night. A cormorant may oblige you as they dive down and hunt them out. You'll never forget the sight of a cormorant eating an eel (or trying to).
They count eels-or I should say elvers- at Mogden. That's what that tank is for. ZSL has been doing this along the Thames tributaries for some time now to assess the numbers as they are critically endangered. Over the years I've counted literally tens of thousands of them at Brentford when that area was participating in the survey.
I've seen kingfishers a few times on the River Brent. So tiny and so utterly blue.
HoosierSands | Homepage | 01.09.22 - 7:54 a.m. | #
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When I lived in Twickenham I used to walk and play in all the places you have mentioned today.
Mogden sometimes has an Open Day and is worth a visit.
Not far from the Sewage Works there was the old Isleworth Studios (Worton Hall) where the film "The African Queen" was shot
John | 01.09.22 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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We can always rely on you to find fascinating walks around London. Downloaded the map and hope to do it in a few weeks time once I have worked my way through all the others on the list.
davews | 01.09.22 - 8:25 a.m. | #
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Welcome to my old manor (and now my new manor) It's changed quite a lot over the last thirty years. The river path was much more overgrown previously. I haven't seen a kingfisher around here but did see one a couple of years back on the Wandle at Earlsfield.
daveid76 | 01.09.22 - 8:27 a.m. | #
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I say celebrate the turtle, ninja mutant, red eared or whatever. What a spot! I have never seen one. I am also now lagging behind you on kingfisher sightings.
MO | 01.09.22 - 8:43 a.m. | #
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Acres of sewage and Harlequins? How could you tell the difference?
Yours,
A Saracens fan
TomH | 01.09.22 - 8:52 a.m. | #
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I used to walk my dogs along the River Roding and would sometimes hear and occasionally see a kingfisher.
Ninja turtles were much more common. They reminded me of German WW2 army helmets when basking
Scientist | 01.09.22 - 10:09 a.m. | #
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Nice one. Definitely a walk to add to my list of things to do.
Looking up the sewage works, it seems that there was a farm on the site previously, it was fortunate for London that such open space still existed in the 1930s.
Mikey C | 01.09.22 - 10:51 a.m. | #
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Kingfishers also not uncommon on the nearby River Crane.
David | 01.09.22 - 10:55 a.m. | #
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I would have spelt it culdesacky. Either way, only been recorded on the internet a handful of times. I would imagine it's probably been used in conversation more than that though.
Alan | 01.09.22 - 11:11 a.m. | #
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Very much my old stomping ground in the 1980s when Mogden was a lot more pongy than it is now!
It wasn't until more recently that I discovered the walks so have done both the Crane (twice) and the DoN River (once). I want to go back! Twickenham Stadium had a match on that day so yummy smells were and the sound of happy crowds were wafting over the fence!
I hope you were able to spend some time exploring Mereway Nature Park - it's utterly delightful with plenty more of those animal benches.
Cornish Cockney | 01.09.22 - 11:20 a.m. | #
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Your obsessiveness and attention to detail are our luck. Many thanks for this and all the other posts.
Blar Gazon | 01.09.22 - 2:59 p.m. | #
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Some further snippets.
Opposite the Royal Oak is a warehouse office unit which was until a few years ago the repair and spares centre for Roberts radios.
Before Chase Bridge school was built you had mainly open land across to kneller Hall on the part of the path by Twickenham Stadium
Before the Harlequins stadium was built it was open land and allotments. The allotments had hand operated water pumps which as a young boy I would enjoy pumping up the cold water
John | 02.09.22 - 8:02 a.m. | #
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..though Mogden sewage works does have something of a reputation locally for the persistent 'odour' coming from it, together with mosquitos, and some 'unacceptable discharges' of untreated water into the Thames and the Duke's River in times of heavy rain.
ActonMan | 02.09.22 - 3:43 p.m. | #
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Nice to see it again. A familiar walk to be, and I put some pictures on line a few years ago. Its in a John Rogers film too, I think with Nick P. The river starts from the Colne which had a more reliable water supply than the Crane and has been re-reouted a few times around Heathrow, where it flows parallel with the Longford River to Bedfont. It kind of meets up with the Crane at Feltham (where I've watched a kingfisher fishing) and gets totally mixed together with the Crane in Crane Park, then the two diverge where your walk ended.
Peter Marshall | Homepage | 12.09.22 - 3:08 p.m. | #
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