Mummy
and baby moorhen decided to cross our path. One of the woodland
tracks we followed around the exterior of the gardens had little
insets - one of which was this picnic shed where I photographed one
of the info-boards explaining the need for ash trees. This evidenced
the importance of Wakehurst Place as a seed bank, as many ash are
dying due to a bug - and should they all go, many other creatures
would suffer.
We
saw several other birds, although that was the extent of my
photographs. The next day I went on another excursion with Liz as it
was a bank holiday Monday. This trip was to RSPB Pulborough Brooks,
where we have been on several occasions. Regular readers or visitors
to the reserve will recognize my next photo's subjects!
As
well as the reserve itself, we walked around the exterior, visiting
some woodland habitat and a bluebell wood where we spotted a lone
deer. We did spot some other birds - though with binoculars instead
of camera - a blackcap, warbler, group of swans, and multiple robins.
Back
home - and a pair of wood pigeons were snoozing on the backyard
fence. Meanwhile, the starlings and sparrows are hyper-hungry due to
babies!
The Ash trees die, and then the birds that depend on them die, and that throws off other species-- everybody is connected.
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