{"id":115694,"date":"2020-04-17T20:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/stuck-at-home-ive-found-its-never-too-late-to-learn-about-wildlife\/"},"modified":"2020-04-17T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T13:40:00","slug":"stuck-at-home-ive-found-its-never-too-late-to-learn-about-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/stuck-at-home-ive-found-its-never-too-late-to-learn-about-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck at home, I've found it's never too late to learn about wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI grew up in the gritty city with no experience of the natural world other than urban foxes and pigeons. At last, I can find joy in nature \u2013 in my own back gardenI have a memory that I cannot clearly place. It was six or seven years ago and I was watching a segment on breakfast television about how many urban children cannot recognise well-known British wildlife by sight or sound.I was one of those children. My summer holidays were spent at home, bored, under east London\u2019s concrete canopy. Wildlife highlights were foxes and the odd rat, creatures to be feared because nature was unpredictable, and sometimes even perverse (viz, the common city pigeon, cannibalistically picking at discarded fried chicken bones). Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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