River Thames at Battersea, HDR.

Back blip.
This is the River Thames at Battersea: the tower in the middle is The Belvedere Tower at Chelsea Harbour (the ball on the needle is meant to rise and fall with the tide, but was midway up at high tide so perhaps it no longer works). The jetty with amber lights at the right of the picture belongs to The London Heliport.
This is a composite of 5 (handheld) photographs, but I think, perhaps, I ought to have taken more to get better detail in the shadows; I'm pleased with the lighting generally (despite allowing HDR halos to form).

I was torn about blipping this though: I took pictures of ducklings (sleeping in a little huddle!) and moorhenlings also, and just out of frame on the left of this Thames picture there were 2 cormorants and a heron on a pontoon... I've uploaded the sleeping ducklings to BlipFolio.


Bird behaviour bit:
There are now more moorhenlings on Eagle Pond, Clapham Common: there are 4 new (v. young: less than a week old) moorhenlings born to the parents that had already had a brood earlier in the season, so they also have 2 juvenile moorhen "chicks" (which are almost adult sized, but paler brown, and don't have proper adult plumage or colouration). The tiny chicks follow both their parents and their older siblings; the parents generally try to chase off the juvenile ones (because they pinch the food meant for the tiny ones), but the juvenile ones also often feed the littler ones. Sometimes they'd pinch food from the parents and get chased off, only to return and feed the little ones from their mouths. Really interesting family dynamics!