The pictorial diary of an amateur natural world photographer who rarely travels further than his back garden
Our local cemetery is one of my favourite places in all the world. Most of it is given over to a nature reserve. It's wild and overgrown, yet carefully tended by FONC. It's a great place to visit, so if you get the chance I highly recommend it!
We don't get a huge variety of birds in our garden, and the numbers and species of those visiting are getting fewer and fewer. Why is this? The answer is painfully simple. It's not my feline presence. No. It's the continual erosion of habitat. It's been truly heartbreaking to see the number of trees and mature large shrubs that have been needlessly cut down, more than once when birds were nesting in them. The dunnocks bore the brunt of it last year, and haven't been seen since.
I've decided that the Turnstone is one of my favourite birds. Every evening, whilst in Hastings, at low tide they came to feed on the shoreline.
