Going to university in central London, and it being both exam season and Spring, it’s only natural I should make use of the fantastic green spaces London has to offer. Off the top of my head, I can think of the major parks – Regent’s, Hyde, St. James, Kensington Gardens (part of Hyde Park, ok, fine!) – as well as the myriad squares in Bloomsbury, places a bit further afield like Clapham Common and that random bit near the London Eye.

Inside these spaces is a plentiful array of wildlife, and taking my camera along to a revision session in Regents Park the other day, I came across this little chap nibbling away next to the Broadwalk. Like most animals living among London’s 7 million human residents, he was pretty tame and didn’t mind me too much as I walked slowly around him to get a better shot. I ended up crouched about 1.5m away from him, leaning against a tree as he munched away on sycamore seeds.

It’s possibly a bit of an error to take my camera with me to what’s meant to be a revision session – but that didn’t quite matter on this one, as it ended up being a bit too windy to sit in the park too long…! I’ve got 3 exams left and then just over a month to do as I please before I start work – which will, of course, mean going out to fill my new 1TB hard drive full of photos