BBC’s Wild London (2025)

Coots Fighting (London)

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

BBC’s Wild London (2025)

Coots Fighting (London)

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

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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