Locations

Network members might be interested in knowing that the Horniman Butterfly House, Horniman Gardens, Forest Hill, is offering free entry on production of a National Lottery ticket. 

The website says:  Between 15 and 23 March 2025 you can enjoy free entry to our popular Butterfly House on presentation of a National Lottery ticket or Scratchcard.

For more information about thsi free offer, go to:

https://www.lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/open-week/offers/horniman-butterfly-house-free-entry

https://www.horniman.ac.uk/event/butterfly-house/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4cS-BhDGARIsABg4_J270EzrEGhQyHJxBPZ4YoRuWBtWjb_fE0A3vfZWquHHsfcaXr1yVTkaArOiEALw_wcB

The next Network fieldtrip is to WWT Welney Wetland Centre Welney to photograph Swansa of all kinds and lots more.

WWT Welney? WWT Welney Wetland Centre is in Norfolk and includes 1,000 acres of the northernmost part of the Ouse Washes – Britain’s largest area of seasonally-flooded land and the setting for one of the most magical events in the UK’s nature calendar - mass winter gatherings of many thousands of wild ducks, geese and swans. Go to: https://www.wwt.org.uk/centres/welney/ for further information.

Address? Station Road, Welney, Wisbech PE14 9TN

Rendezvous Time? 10.00-10.15am in the car park adjacent to the entrance.

Just a reminder that the next LNP Network Fieldtrip is to the Bexley Butterfly Gardens at Hall Place (Bourne Rd, Bexley DA5 1PQ) on Tuesday 3 December. Please rendezvous at the entrance at 11.00am. There is free parking at Hall Place - follow the signposts from the car park to the Butterfly glasshouse - it's about 200 metres away. There are also good bus and rail links.

You can either pay on the door (£8.50), or book in  advance (£.7.50) - go to https://www.hallplace.org.uk/london-butterfly-gardens-at-hall-place/  

Please note, from this week, the venue will not open until 11.00am, and closes at 3.30pm. No tripods or flash. Macro lens ideal, or a 70-200 with a macro setting. If you've not visited a butterfly glasshouse before, please note it's very warm and humid inside, even in winter!

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Barrie

On behalf of the Founding Members

It was a dry, slightly overcast morning last Friday, 1 November, as nine Network members from three London Clubs - Bromley, South London and Beckenham - gathered at dawn in the Diana Fountain Carpark at Bushy Park. The LNP Network's first field trip was underway. It offered a first chance for members to meet each other face to face, and then get down to capturing the action as alpha Stags competed for females, jackdaws were everywhere and juvenile males practiced antler dueling. A couple of hours later, the sky was clearing and things had settled down, so a quick trip to the coffee shack or the Pheasantry to warm up rounded off a most satisfactory morning's photography. And our thanks to Leigh for creating a video of the event - to check it out, go to https://youtu.be/8jS6PxGEWIE