Urban Diary

A heron does a De Niro in Finsbury Park

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You talkin’ to me? The long-beaked bird seemed to be impersonating Travis Bickle’s famous line. I couldn’t blame it. There we were: two cycling instructors and a bunch of giggling primary school children on bikes and yellow tabards.

We’d just come up to the top of the park and were riding around the pond when we spotted the heron. These grey, black, and white-feathered…