Wildlife in Victoria Tower Gardens

Nature and wildlife of Victoria Tower Gardens

The peaceful seclusion of this beautiful, wooded garden makes it a sanctuary for animals and birds, in the very heart of London.

Victoria Tower Gardens may be small, but it’s home to a wide variety of birds, insects and plants. Its green space is part of a wildlife corridor running along the Thames, allowing species to travel freely, through the urban environment. The holly hedge running along the Millbank side of the Gardens, together with the many evergreen and winter-flowering shrubs, provides nesting cover and camouflage for smaller birds such as robins and wrens, blue tits and great tits.

There’s always a quiet, intimate corner to sit and birdwatch

Victoria Tower Gardens has over 50 mature London plane trees, providing shade and cover for birdlife. These trees are nature’s clean air filters too – filtering out airborne pollutants.

Because of its riverside location, the gardens are both home and hunting ground for pipistrelle bats – the smallest of the native bats, but with an impressive appetite. A bat can eat upwards of 3,000 insects in one evening. You’ll see them swooping through the air around 20 minutes after sunset, as to a soundtrack of a twilight chorus of blackbirds, thrushes and robins.