new from Milton Keynes

[weebo]

Hello there every one iam new here and i live in Milton Keynes and i need your help, iam a photogrpahy student and am doing a assignment on wildlife and i was wondering if any one can point me in the right direction as to where to look in the MK area? any help will be greatful thanks

Weebo

[Sherlock]

Hi and welcome weebo

sorry unable to help though

[naturelover]

hi,welcome to the site weebo,sorry cant help you with your question.

[GME]

Hi from me too. Try posting your question in one of the other forum sections (wildlife photography perhaps?) and you may get more responses from people who have been out around there taking pics. On the other hand, someone who lives round that way may be on here soon. Good luck with it all anyway

[weebo]

thanks for the welcome guys and i will check out the other pages

[Kayleigh]

Hi weebo

I live in Towcester I found a couple of wildlife web sites. I only photograph local to me in the garden and on dog walks.

Milton Keynes - Milton Keynes Parks - MKWeb
Wildlife Sites in Northamptonshire

There is also Embarton country park on the 509 MK Nr Olney

[weebo]

hey i pass Embarton country park on my way to uni, whats it like there? do you have to pay to get in? and what wildlife it there?

[Kayleigh]

where are you going for holls?

I think its £3 a day for the car park..Look at Kymba's post...I have never been but Kymba has been a few times..

[Rhino]

All the lakes are nice, willen, caldecott, there are some nice places in stony stratford too

[big bill]

Hello weebo and welcome to the site sorry not from your neck of the woods but no doubt someone will help

Cheers...Bill

[kent marshman]

hiya theres a lot of Chinese Water Deer in your area on fields around cranfield uni dont know if youve seen any but their really strange looking back legs are bigger than front and males have tusks, woburn abbey good for pics of deer to

[haematocephalus]

You could also consider joining the Milton Keynes Natural History Society, they have a weekly summer field trip programme (usually on Tuesday evenings) which is a great way to discover good wildlife sites in the area. See:
Milton Keynes Natural History Society

Martin


Martin Harvey
Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Environmental Records Centre - Welcome

[weebo]

wow thanks for all the replays i will be looking into all these places thanks again, i would upload some of my images from willen lakes but iam not aload the site says no lol

[GME]

Glad you've got a few good replies (especially as nobody seems to have answered in the photography section which I suggested ) You should be able to load your images though. They must be uploaded onto WAB and not linked from an external site. If you follow the uploading instructions on the gallery pages you should be fine. Best to load them on one of the unmoderated galleries (called Archive on here) then they will be available straight away

[eeyore]

lots of good places in milton keynes , check out the parks trusts website Parks Trust - The Parks Trust - used to work for them so know for a fact that they have loads of good locations.

another four that are worth checking out are

a) the hanson centre / linford lakes which is run by MKC , you have to pay an anual sub (a fiver i think) to get a key for the hides but its a nice site

b) little linford wood just to the north of the ouse, which is run by bbowt (not to be confused with linford wood in mk itself) , this has decent orchids, flutterbys and even doormice tho you'll be lucky to see the latter

c) slightly further afield check out stockgrove country park near leighton buzzard - very good ops on nuthatch here as they are used to people

and finally

d) slighly further afield still check out summerleys nature reserve which is near wollaston , run by northants cc this has an excellent small bird feeding area giving good ops on reed wardbler, tree sparrow, long tailed tit , and ocassionally brambling amonst others

[juliejam]

Hi and welcome to the forum..Looing forward to seeing you around ...Have fun.


Julie

[buzfuz8149]

Hi Weebo,

a warm welcome to WAB to another photographer the more the merrier - just love looking at the photos in the gallery, looking forward to your photos and your posts.

Carol.