This was taken in Kew Gardens in early March, 2009. This is the haunt of the ameteur nature photographer. He stalks his prey and scant attention to his own personal safety gets close to his prey.
See also plane over pond. The plane flies noisely over the pond on its way to London Heathrow.
There are great arguments against Heathrow expanding. I am one of the few locals who actually supports the expansion.
Why?
- Air travel will continue to expand despite the economic gloom and doom recessionists and the green lobby
- If the expansion is not done then rivals, such as Paris, will take the trade away.
- Not expanding Heathrow will badly affect the image of London, as a financial centre and as a tourist centre.
- The facilities and structure of the airport are inadequate for such a large airport.
- Some of my friends work at Heathrow.
- Three times this year mist meant that some planes had to divert from Heathrow. If the airport had three runways they would not. (In poor visibility there has to be longer gaps between planes on the same flight path)
- We are used to aircraft noise around here. Building another airport would affect another group of people.
- and I live on a single bus route to Heathrow and an expanded Heathrow means more competition. Which means more cheap flights to more destinations for me.