Chrissie, it is absolutely astonishing the wildlife that can be found in urban areas..............you don't need huge tracts of greenery, moorland etc. to see things, although of course that helps.
In town nowadays, everything from foxes to kestrels, peregrines to stoats and weasels. To a cliff nesting bird such as a peregrine, a tower block is just another cliff.......and as the rodents always follow man about, there is enough food running around for lots of different predators.
Leave the shopping bag at home and have a wander round with the eyes up to the skies, ignore the shops and the traffic.........it's there for the spotting.
I do treasure what is around here, and I know that I am lucky to be living here ( well, anywhere at my age
) but whereever you are, there is something near at hand to bring the countryside to your front door.
