tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post2388775435530103129..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Metropolis as Matrix - Umberto TosiKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-26467511330184546162019-03-07T17:23:00.750+00:002019-03-07T17:23:00.750+00:00Lovely post. Funnily enough, there's an articl...Lovely post. Funnily enough, there's an article in Psychologies magazine this month about wildlife in the city... apparently there is a "fox trail" at Bankside in London? (I'm nowhere near London so can't investigate, but others might know more!)Katherine Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-62435840738769390612019-03-03T14:53:29.349+00:002019-03-03T14:53:29.349+00:00Three cheers for your wonderful grandmother for in...Three cheers for your wonderful grandmother for instilling in you a love of wildlife,just from that early closeness to the birds at the breadcrumbs. Our 3 year-old grand-daughter loves going out to refill the bird feeder with Grandalf (a certain Tolkien mania runs through this family) and then watches through the window the bluetits, bullfinches, chaffinches and jackdaws descending on it, also the wretched grey squirrels hurling themselves at it from the corner of the roof. It’s so easy to excite young children in wildlife but sadly seems to happen less and less, to the incalculable loss of an area of knowledge and common experience we used to take for granted. For proof, theres the excellent UK quiz show, University Challenge: all questions involving the natural world have been dropped because brilliant undergraduates who can rattle off the periodic table and the length of each of France’s republics can’t tell a lark from a song thrush (or, for that matter, a buttercup from a celandine). <br /> There has been a huge drop in garden bird species in the last couple of decades and I suppose that is partly the reason - sparrows used to be, as they say, two a penny and now are nowhere to be seen. Lamenting the decline in traditional urban wildlife, I find it hard to warm to the hordes of urban foxes screeching and defecating on our lawn as they queue up to have a go at the heavily fortified chicken run in the garden next door. But I guess you would be enlightened here, welcoming the creatures who’ve learnt so well to adapt to our artificial constructs!Griselda Heppelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09207965148074302337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-33979483848821843612019-03-03T14:34:52.733+00:002019-03-03T14:34:52.733+00:00A lovely post and one that I can related to. For a...A lovely post and one that I can related to. For as long as I can remember I've loved wildlife. As a child we helped birds, the odd bat or two and caught and treated the stickleback in our local pond, who had a fungal infection. For the last 25 years I've rescued hedgehogs and met some fabulous people along the way. <br />Lynne Garnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05697330164705623835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-50969328011916156132019-03-03T13:27:06.131+00:002019-03-03T13:27:06.131+00:00Thank you for this heartwarming post. We live in a...Thank you for this heartwarming post. We live in a high-rise in Chicago and it is built in a way that doesn't allow the windows to fully open; I so miss the breeze passing through the huge gaps of a house. Now that I am in a rural residency in Malaysia, the monkeys and the mosquitoes and free-roaming bats and birds are taking some getting used to, but I am loving it. "It's not the animals who are the interlopers"...more people should keep that in mind, wherever they make a home. Dipika Mukherjeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17734481154069467025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-11424464872931525942019-03-03T10:09:49.298+00:002019-03-03T10:09:49.298+00:00What a joy, Umberto! Southampton would be dwarfed ...What a joy, Umberto! Southampton would be dwarfed by Chicago, but it is still an over-developed city port, yet it teems with wildlife for those who want to find it. We have a feeding station and 'Hedgehog Hilton' in our small back garden and a motion-sensitive camera (not that we're obsessed or anything...) which give us so much pleasure when the little critturs emerge - any day now, we hope! Birds galore, too. This would be a miserable dump without thwem. Thank you for the reminder!Sandra Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01761260568729338471noreply@blogger.com