City Peregrine taking off after perching for a spell

Frog spawning season at Barbican Wildlife Garden

The pond predator has been found!

Video of fox playing with frog.

City Peregrine flying off just before sunset.

Tadpoles in the sun!

Cropped in on a tadpole yet to emerge from its egg

Tadpoles in the making: these not yet born but taking shape in the [email protected]

Spotted these tiny creatures in the [email protected] pond. iNaturalist identifies them as water fleas (a kind of planktonic crustacean).

perhaps a pregnant water flea in Barbican Wildlife Pond

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Birdsong at 4:50am today in TM gardens. The bird identification app Merlin identified these four.

Rabbit sighting at 6:30am in Speed Garden! 🐰

I had intelligence that there were no juvenile peregrine this year. Evidently this is wrong as I spot one today. This one is soon to fledge.

Juvenile City Peregrine on a residential block.

In the past, the City juvenile peregrines have been hassled by seagulls. Not so for this one as tables are turned.

A lot of whining but I don’t see why. Perhaps the juvenile wants food. I spot the adult about 25 floors up, trying to rest

Juvenile City Peregrine flying unusually low. It was clutching a scrap of leftover over prey. I suspect it was snatched from its parent given the noise and the presence of the adult nearby.

At 00:22 today the Northern lights were captured automatically by my computer in Barbican, central London. It used the alerts from AuroraWatch UK. The pix is a 15 sec exposure and brightened on my phone.

Solar Eclipse seen in Central London just now.