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Many people visit Aberdare Blog looking for creatures that inhabit Aberdare Park including the Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus) a rare and elusive African antelope, the black rhino, the bush pig, or giant forest hog.
We apologise, but we are only able to offer ducks, geese and other birds, trees, flowers, a variety of fungi, the annual colourful Carnival and road races, and of course, last but not least, the Aberdare Park grey squirrels.
We are nonetheless very, very proud of our local wildlife, flora and fauna.
Aberdare Park in Wales is around 50 hectares. Aberdare National Park in Kenya is around 77,000 hectares. The mind boggles at this scale.
If our mathematics are correct, you could fit nearly 3790 Aberdare Parks into the Kenyan Aberdare National Park.
Why did the Kenyans name such a...
It’s hard to keep a straight face and a steady camera when one of these mighty birds is oogling you inches from your face. At Aberdare Park boating lake this week one of these dark coloured geese came a little too close for comfort. They are greedy and inquisitive and face a constant battle with their other instinct… the instinct to stay away from people for the sake of self-preservation.
There is another famous Aberdare Park situated in Kenya. But who needs to travel thousands of miles to strange and foreign lands, when we have our very own collection of wildlife on the doorstep in Aberdare,......
As we approach winter, the squirrels at Aberdare Park prepare themselves for the cold, lean months ahead.
The coat of the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) becomes thicker and they gain weight in readiness for the lean months of winter. The winter coat of the squirrels is much greyer than the summer coat which is far more brownish.
The grey squirrel does not hibernate in the winter months and therefore they have to prepare to survive by other means. The squirrel’s drey or nest becomes thicker in the winter.
At this time of year it is possible to watch the Aberdare Park squirrels gather and hide nuts for the winter. The nuts are found not by memory but by scent. As it is now late October, much of the acorn and other nuts have already been taken into store....
The geese and ducks at Aberdare Park are fun to watch as they step gingerly around Aberdare Park lake.
They seem to be part of a Monty Pythonesque troupe.
Sitting down on a park bench on a beautiful autumn day today we met many feathered ‘Ministers’ from Aberdare Park’s very own Ministry of Silly Walks… here are some photographs :...
