NATURE
Around My Patch
Birds and Landscape
A blue tit. They visit my garden, which thrills me. I think they are my favourite bird, except perhaps for robins. I love the song of blackbirds. My favourite birdsong. A pair of blue tits feed in my garden. I have no idea where their nest is. I have a nesting box hidden behind the greengage tree. I don’t think they are nesting there.
This is a Stonechat. I don’t see many. All our birds are losing habitat. Their song is two notes. I like hearing them, even if I don’t see many.
This is the English Channel from hills on the opposite side to my home. The harbor is to the left of the photo and is vast. The town, actually a city, which you see now adjoins my town and they call it a conurbation. It is the most congested area for traffic in England. I think it because all the roads meet at different junctions so an accident or breakdown brings most of the area to a standstill. I am grateful that I am separate from it.
