BBC’s Wild London (2025)

Coots Fighting (London)

Click here to watch the sequence on BBC iPlayer from 26m48s.

Posters for BBC Wild London showing a man in a blue shirt with the London skyline in the background, flying birds, and a ferris wheel.

BBC’s Wild London (2025)

Coots Fighting (London)

Click here to watch the sequence on BBC iPlayer from 26m48s.

Promotional poster for BBC Earth series 'Wild London' featuring an older man in a blue shirt with a London cityscape, including the London Eye, Big Ben, and skyscrapers, in the background; birds flying in the sky.
A professional camera mounted on a stabilizer or tripod, positioned above a puddle, reflecting the camera and its equipment, with the camera pointing downward towards the ground.
A professional video camera is set up outdoors, pointed downward, with the reflection visible in a body of water.

I didn’t realise how aggressive Coots can be to each other! Their relentless fighting was what I was tasked to capture for Wild London.

It involved getting into a pair of waders (which I seem to do a lot of on my wildlife shoots) and into the various park lakes, let’s call them ponds, around London.

Amidst all the floating bird poo there was a very savage group of coots that were unrelenting in their desire to inflict maximum damage upon each other.

Like in typical Natural History TV fashion the shots I got for the show all happened on the last day of filming. Classic.

I didn’t realise how aggressive Coots can be to each other! Their relentless fighting was what I was tasked to capture for Wild London.

It involved getting into a pair of waders (which I seem to do a lot of on my wildlife shoots) and into the various park lakes, let’s call them ponds, around London.

Amidst all the floating bird poo there was a very savage group of coots that were unrelenting in their desire to inflict maximum damage upon each other.

Like in typical Natural History TV fashion the shots I got for the show all happened on the last day of filming. Classic.

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