2027 Calendar Front cover and September main image: Little Owl © Alberto Romualdo
Just arrived: The Richmond Park Calendar 2027
The beautiful 2027 Richmond Park Calendar is now on sale at The Visitor Centre and online.
It includes 58 beautiful images of Richmond Park. This is more than just a Calendar – it’s a wonderful memento of the wildlife, scenery and peace of Richmond Park throughout the year. On sale for £11. (Christmas Cards now also available.)
Buy the Calendar online: www.frp.org.uk/shop
Or at the Visitor Centre – information and opening hours: www.frp.org.uk/visitor-centre
Feeding deer in Richmond Park is dangerous
Daily Telegraph 19 August 2026
Recent incidents have highlighted the need not to approach deer in the Park and especially not to feed them. This BBC article explains why.
BBC Report: Why is feeding deer in Richmond Park dangerous? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2dz18gkk2o
Heathrow flight paths update – a busy month
The government’s consultation on the Heathrow Expansion National Policy Statement (HENPS) closed on 1 September. While the consultation became largely focused on the proposed third runway and over 50% increase in flights, our response focused on flight paths.
We have also:
- submitted written evidence to the Transport Select Committee as part of its scrutiny of the HENPS;
- joined a small group of expert stakeholders to brief Aviation Minister Keir Mather MP; and
- begun reviewing the recently issued revised UK Air Navigation Guidance 2026.
A special butterfly summer
Painted Lady Photograph: Nigel Jackman
This butterfly summer has been a special one, with an exceptional abundance of Painted Lady and Clouded Yellow butterflies. The progeny of earlier broods making their way north from North Africa and southern Europe have been helped by hot, settled weather and warm air currents carrying them across the English Channel and dispersing them widely, including into Richmond Park.
Clouded Yellow Photograph: Nigel Jackman
Good numbers of Painted Lady have been seen in Pembroke Lodge gardens, while Clouded Yellow have occurred mainly in grassland areas such as Pond Slade, in numbers never seen here before.
Hummingbird Hawk-moth Photograph: Nigel Jackman
Hummingbird Hawk-moths have also done better than ever, particularly feeding on nectar in the flower beds at Pembroke Lodge.
But the most stunning and unexpected sighting was still to come:
Continental Swallowtail. Photograph: Gill Silvester
On 21 August one of our butterfly recorders spotted a Continental Swallowtail just outside Two Storm Wood — a first for Richmond Park.