It’s lucky I keep my camera so close to my desk, really. I had a quick look out of the window, and there was this squirrel, just sitting there on the shed next door (it later hopped down to our fence), munching on what I think is probably an old KFC chicken drumstick.

This is why your camera should be around all the time, battery charged and blank SD/CF card inside. Keep a useful lens on – what useful is depends on your own prefence, of course, but this was shot at 248mm, so quite some zoom – and always be ready to pick it up, click the lens hood off and shoot.

Don’t ask me why a squirrel was gnawing on a chicken bone. So far as I know, they’re herbivorous – I can only imagine the Colonel’s secret recipe contains something particularly delicious for an urban squirrel!

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