This is a new monthly segment I’d like to introduce to my blog, to offer a rounded view of the month’s sightings and interesting discoveries, and also to add a more personal element to this blog.

In this post, I discuss how I use nature to ground me on a bad mental health day. Watching kestrel fledglings, fulmars, house martins and rock pipits on a balmy evening post-storm was exactly what I needed on a day that didn’t feel so bright.

There are many incentives to attracting more wildlife into your garden and it can be as simple as putting out some bird seed or a few flower pots. Here’s how my family is working together to create our own nature garden.

Taking advantage of unlimited daily exercise in search of turtledoves, harriers and much, much more!

Being stuck in lockdown is difficult for everyone, especially when you can’t do the things you’d usually do with your free time, e.g. bird watching. But there is so much to learn from encouraging garden birds to come to you, and improving your wellbeing in doing so.

On January 3rd 2020, I travelled to Elmley Marsh in North Kent in search of a very special bird, whilst enduring the weather and getting a shocking surprise along the way.