By early December, London’s skies and waterways are part of an immense, invisible highway stretching to Africa and the Arctic. While summer swifts may already be over Zimbabwe and wood warblers deep in rainforest, the capital hosts its own cast of winter visitors: elegant smew diving briefly on reservoirs, rare goosanders and mergansers dropping in, and crossbills in pinewoods, their extraordinary crossed bills prising open spruce cones. Overhead, red kites, ospreys, buzzards and even merlins patrol the cold air, while owls haunt the edges of dusk. And occasionally, the most majestic travellers of all sweep past: Bewick’s and Whooper swans, fresh from Arctic breeding grounds, pausing only briefly on London’s waters before pressing on. Return on 04-Dec for the full story!
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