Trafalgar Square
Named to commemorate the Battle of Trafalgar, Trafalgar Square is one of London’s best-known and popular public spaces. Nelson’s Column and the Landseer Lions stand in its centre, the National Gallery on its north side and St Martin in the fields is nearby. Once as famous for its unwelcome visitors, pigeons, as its statues and monuments, a ban on feeding the pigeons and the use of birds of prey has seen them almost completely disappear from the square.
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Trafalgar Square Twilight Panorama
Trafalgar Square at twilight is one of London’s defining views. This high-resolution panorama captures the moment the lights come on across the square: Nelson’s Column and the Landseer lions illuminated against a darkening sky, the fountains catching the last of the day, and the grand facades of the National Gallery, Canada House and South Africa…
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The Birds, Trafalgar Square
Pigeons have enormous fields of vision – they can see 340-degrees around without moving, thanks to their side-mounted eyes. The peripheral vision of each eye is so great that the two visual fields overlap, giving the pigeon a binocular field of 24-degrees when it looks straight ahead. Trafalgar square celebrates the famous naval victory at…