2027’s Friends of Richmond Park Calendar is now available to buy at our vistor centre and by Pembroke Lodge car park and online:🔗frp.org.uk/shop/ A wonderful gift for your friends and family, while helping us raise funds for projects in the Park.📷Alberto Romualdo.

Ready for #halloween ? Richmond Park is! The Park is home to 11 of the 18 bat species regularly found in the U.K., including the Daubenton’s or “water bat” which swoops low over ponds. Indulge your batty side- the Visitor’s centre now has toy bats!

#SundayYellow Contemplating a golden sunrise under a yellow canopy of Autumn leaves, in Richmond Park. #dailypicturetheme Y

#DailyPictureTheme “weathered” One of Richmond Park’s veteran Oaks- the Park is home to ancient trees that have weathered centuries - their trunks tell the tale.

✨ New stock at Pembroke Lodge Visitors Centre! ✨ 🗺️ NEW – Vintage Map Prints Unframed prints for £25, with a gift envelope. Now in stock. 🌿 Decorations A lovely selection of straw and ceramic decorations, plus baubles, from £5.50. 🧩 Coming soon… Two new 500-piece jigsaws!

#fungifriday - a selection of the beautiful fungi of Richmond Park- 👀 don’t pick in the Park, but don’t destroy them either! Leave them to be appreciated by others.

Friday #nature notes from Richmond Park. As the nights draw in, Park wildlife like insects, reptiles and amphibians, bed down for the winter, seeking leaf litter and deadwood to hibernate. Dead hedges, like this one in Two Storm Wood, provide refuge and drive decomposition.

#throwbackthursday - Pembroke Lodge in Richmond Park started as a humble mole-catcher’s cottage, but grew to considerable grandeur by the time Elizabeth, Countess of Pembroke, 🖼️, after whom it is named, lived there in the 1780s and 90s.

#DailyPictureTheme Tiny- Richmond Park’s tiniest creatures include the weird and wonderful slime moulds. They spend most of the year as invisible single cells, but in wet Autumn and Winter weather they come together to produce tiny but visible fruiting bodies on leaves and logs.

#WallsOnWednesday The wall around #Richmond Park was originally built from 1635 to 1637 by King Charles I to keep deer in the newly created Park. Local people were allowed in via ladderstiles, but it was John Lewis who fought for and won permanent right of access for all.

#thicktrunktuesday - Autumnal shot of one of Richmond Park’s veteran oaks near Conduit Wood. As oaks enter extreme age, their trunks hollow and they grow broader, almost as if the tree is exploding out, in exquisite slow motion, over the course of centuries,

#SundayYellow Butterflies on yellow Ragwort in Richmond Park in the summer…

What a difference a week makes! Richmond Park’s trees are starting to head to peak Autumn foliage- this beautiful Red Oak, next to Two Storm Wood, is leading the way. #AutumnVibes

Visiting Richmond Park over the weekend? Drop by the Visitor Centre! With information about the Park’s wildlife, trees and history, as well as gifts, including our famous Calendar and Christmas cards, there’s lots to discover! By Pembroke Lodge car park🔗 frp.org.uk/visitor-centre/

#DailyPictureTheme Noir in Richmond Park- one of the Park’s veteran Oaks showing its darker side..

Friday #Nature notes from Richmond Park- although today is wet and grey, the late October sun has been bringing the last of the season’s butterflies out to nectar- Small Coppers colour-coordinating beautifully with Tickseed. 📷Stephen Read

#throwbackthursday #RichmondPark history. King Henry’s mound is a Neolithic tomb, 4-5,000 years old, on the edge of the Park. King Henry VIII was reputed to have seen the signal of Anne Boleyn‘s execution from it. A scheduled monument from 2020, its view of St Pauls is famous.