Wild Talk

It has happened! We have had the Spring Equinox but the real milestone is when the clocks change and you get that jump in usable daylight! It not only means that we have more daylight but it also signals the start of the guided walk season for us and also route describing and checking for me. Its great getting out in the countryside at this time of year: the blossom is out and the leaves are growing again, and the lambs are hopping around the fields. It seems that over the last couple of weeks nature has kick-started itself! That is one of my favourite pivotal moments in the year, when the countryside comes back to life in what seems like an instant. When the blossom is out is one of the best times to walk the South-West Coastpath, this was taken on the section between Bude and Crackington Haven.       Birds are still feeling the cold enough to come into gardens. This Blue Tit quite happily sat and had his picture taken! Even just walking around our local village you

As someone who has spent their entire life living in the countryside I have always loved country villages and towns and have always shied away from urban areas but in recent years as I have been working in London more and more and I have discovered a new love for urban areas and their hidden secrets. I have discovered that even in central London you can find small oases of tranquility and greenery and that you needn't leave a town to watch Herons collecting nesting materials and listen to nothing more than running water! A Grey Heron ( Ardea cinerea ) fishing in Central London. There is nothing more beautiful than walking along the River Thames as it bends around Richmond-Upon-Thames and Kew Gardens or back towards Hampton Court... you can be in the middle of Kingston and never even notice it! With such a vast amount of green areas within the reach of an Oyster Card there is no excuse now for anyone not to get out and enjoy nature! The view down towards the Thame