Natural world-Unnatural history of london Mon 18/6/2012 BBC2 20.00-21.00pm (1 Viewer)

[Peewit]

hi there

A well thought out programme about all the animals that we are familar with - ie Foxes, and Peregrine Falcons who like to live in built up areas of our cities

http://www.radiotimes.com/episode/q5hrj/natural-world--natural-world-unnatural-history-of-london

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k784h

Looking good form here at the moment with a good write up in Radio Times

Regards
Kathy
x

 

[Penny Clarke]

Brilliantly filmed - enjoyed watching this immensely, especially the chilli seeds tip to deter squirrels!!!

 

[Peewit]

Love this show. :-O

It was well done with that happy go lucky feel, and it very entertaining. :gh::t:

Regards
Kathy
x

 

[Rufio]

this has made me chuckle a few times, its the pigeon blog.
http://pigeonblog.wordpress.com/

I would really like to find out some of the locations of these shots. I know the fish market is Billingsgate fish market. The two grebes performing an courtship is at Hackney Marshes. What i want to know is how to get on the tower where they are viewing the peregrines from. Will rewatch it to see if i can work where it is. Does anybody have contacts for the group that go up there regularly?
Cheers,
Rufio

 

[AlfArbuthnot]

this has made me chuckle a few times, its the pigeon blog.
http://pigeonblog.wordpress.com/

I would really like to find out some of the locations of these shots. I know the fish market is Billingsgate fish market. The two grebes performing an courtship is at Hackney Marshes. What i want to know is how to get on the tower where they are viewing the peregrines from. Will rewatch it to see if i can work where it is. Does anybody have contacts for the group that go up there regularly?
Cheers,
Rufio

It looked like Canary Wharf.

 

[Rufio]

It looked like Canary Wharf.

It cant be CW as they were near the gherkin so must be east london.

I live near it so may try and check it out, see if there is a way you can get up there.:eat:

 

[dogfish]

It was Tower 42

 

[Rufio]

thank you, might see if i can get out there over the weekend. would be a nice spot weather permitting to see some birds of central london

 

[dogfish]

It's a private building, not a case of just turning up I'm afraid. Obviously, access for birding has been arranged for groups but I don't know what current access arrangements are (never been there myself). I'd Google it and see if you can contact birders who've been up there to see what the situation is.

 

[Rufio]

cheers, finally got a contact for the tower 42 birders and hoping to head up there in the next couple of weeks