Six films that follow the animals and plants in six London habitats as they change with the seasons.
CAMDEN. TOWN SQUARE
A residential square in north London, home to domestic cats, pigeons, crows and robins. London planes, ash and sycamore line the street while more sensitve trees, oaks and horse chestnuts, grow in the park. Sparrows and starlings nest under the eaves of the houses in spring, while, in winter, the extra warmth of the city, bring more exotic birds, dunnocks and chaffinches, to feed from seeds left out by people still engaged in the natural processes despite the rush and indifference of the city.
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KINGS CROSS. CANAL
The Victorians built 3000 miles of canals for barges to transport goods around the country. The Regents canal was used to bring coal barges from the northern mines to London, to heat city homes. Now it is part of a wildlife sanctuary, 3000 mies long. An abundace of wildlife, from zooplankton to large insects, fishes, tench, bream carp and roach, a variety of wildflowers, feeding dragonflies and butterflies, and waterbirds migrating along the canals into the city, to settle and breed, gulls, moorhens, cootes, tufted duck and mallards.
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HIGHGATE.WOODS
Highgate woods looks out over the city from the hills of north London. It is an ancient woodland that has remained unchanged as the city grew around it., home to aged trees, fungi and mosses that would be difficultt find in a country wood, impoverished by the demands of intensive agriculture. There are sufficient resources for the larger birds to rear their young, the kestrel, sparrowhawk and tawny owl, avoided by smaller birds, tits, robins, nuthatches and treecreepers. The grey squirrel scurries along the branches of its rich variety of trees, oak, xxx and xxx.
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WALTHAMSTOW.RESERVOIRS AND MARSHES
Walthanstow reservoirs were built by the Victorians to provide London with its drinking water. Fed by the River Lea from the xxx, they sit next to the natural wetland and water meadows of the Walthamstow marshes. The wide expanse of water and safe islands provide nesting homes for herons, canada geese, mute swans, cootes and moorhens. Migrants overwinter, pochard, tufted duck and xx. The marshes provide shelter for many small birds,xxx etc.
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CROUCHEND.ABANDONED TENNIS COURTS.
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TOTTENHAM. CEMETRY
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