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We're the charity that looks after London's eight Royal Parks. For serious incidents and emergencies please contact the police.
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✨ Lighting up the London skyline

📍Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park

📸 The Big Ladder Photographer
Nighttime aerial view of Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, London, featuring a lit Ferris wheel and bustling fairgrounds.
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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On the boundary of The Regent's Park you'll see Dutch elm trees standing tall against the perimeter 🌳

As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲

Watch on to find out more about these trees 📹
November 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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If you head to Kensington Gardens you'll find a hidden legend, a field maple which is more than 250 years old 🌳

As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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🥶 Cold enough for you this morning

📍 Richmond Park and Hyde Park

📸 Beautifully captured by Amanda Boardman, Nitish Raaj, Greg Packman and Cherrie Temasfieldt
A serene winter landscape at sunrise in Richmond Park, featuring bare trees along a frost-covered riverbank with sunlight reflecting on the water. A person walking down a frosty path near a river with a stunning sunrise in the background in Richmond Park. A person walking dogs on a frosty path in Hyde Park during sunrise, with sunlight casting a warm glow and trees lining the sides of the path. A serene winter sunrise over a frost-covered field with a Ferris wheel and other amusement attractions in the background at Hyde Park Winter Wonderland.
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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🍂 Letting leaves lie

📍 Hyde Park
Autumn leaves covering the ground in Hyde Park with trees in vibrant fall colours in the background, under a clear blue sky.
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Bouncing On Bracken #ShareMondays2025

A brief outing to #BushyPark brought a brief encounter with a little female #stonechat flitting about amongst the #bracken in the golden afternoon light @theroyalparks.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social #nature #wildlife #birding #autumncolours
In the right half of this landscape-aspect image is a golden-brown frond of bracken, rising vertically from the lower edge, bending halfway up its length under the weight of a small bird. It's a female stonechat, about the size and shape of a robin, blending perfectly into the colours and speckled textures of the Autumn bracken frond she perches on. She is in profile facing to the left with her back slightly turned towards the camera so that you can see the tips of both wings, held slightly behind her to aid her balance, along with her tail, which she was bobbing around and flaring while I watched her. She was busy bouncing from frond to frond, to the ground and popping back up again to feed on insects active in the warming sunshine. The background is a blurred mix of grass-green, rusty orange and hazy blue layers of shadow, that hint to a landscape of mixed grassland with bands of bracken crossing horizontally behind the subject. Here's the RSPB's description of a stonechat: Stonechats are robin-sized birds. Males have striking black heads with white around the side of their neck, orange-red breasts and a mottled brown back. Females have brown heads, brown backs and an orange tinge to their chests. Stonechats are frequently seen flicking their wings while perched, often doing so on the tops of low bushes. As its name suggests, these birds utter a sharp loud call that sounds like two stones being tapped together. They breed in western and southern parts of the UK, but spread out more widely in winter.
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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This magnificent sweet chestnut tree has sat proudly for centuries in the Greenwich Park Flower Garden 🌳

As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🧡 the colours this autumn 😍

📍 St. James's Park
Autumn foliage in vibrant yellows and reds with a cloudy sky overhead and a pathway partially visible.
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Situated within the Hyde Park Rose Garden you'll find a giant of a tree which keeps an eye over this area of the park - a Caucasian Elm 🌳

As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲

#NationalTreeWeek
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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🏞️ We're so lucky to be able to view parkland like this every day

📍 Richmond Park
Autumn landscape with two large trees on either side framing an area of Richmond Park under a clear sky.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Willow trees surround the lake in St James's Park - ready to welcome you into this park which sits in the heart of London 🌳

As part of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social National Tree Week we're shining a spotlight on different trees around the parks 🌲

#NationalTreeWeek
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Today marks the start of @thetreecouncil.bsky.social's National Tree Week 🌳

We're focusing on some of the wonderful trees we have here in the parks - starting with the magnificent Swamp Cypress in Bushy Park 🍂

#NationalTreeWeek
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Have we missed anything? 😅

You'll be seeing a lot more of us on here going forward 🙌
Sunlight beams through the branches of trees in a serene autumnal landscape, illuminating golden foliage and a rustic path at Richmond Park. Image taken by Lesley Marshall.
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM