29-Oct Cold-blooded Londoners — Reptiles, Amphibians & Fish

As nights cool, London’s cold‑blooded wildlife shifts into survival mode: adders and common lizards seek hibernation burrows, slowworms lie already dormant, and frogs, toads and newts search out snug winter quarters. In rivers and ponds trout may still be spawning, eels head downstream for the Sargasso, and the steadily recovering Thames now hosts pike, carp and many other species — with the occasional lamprey turning up as an intriguing reminder of the river’s past. Watch quietly at ponds, river edges and reedbeds this month and you may catch a last glimpse before winter stillness.

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