Far From the Madding Crowd: Brownsea Island

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Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel, a photo by Linda Yarrow on Flickr.

We had to take our car in for service and MOT so we walked into Poole and took a boat trip to Brownsea Island while our car was being done. We saw several Red Squirrels about. This one was quite happy for me to take pictures of it while eating the berries from the Yew tree.

My Blog

I have taken the title of my blog from Thomas Hardy's fourth novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd' which he wrote in 1874. He took his title from Thomas Gray's poem 'Elegy written in a Country Churchyard' completed in 1750. Thomas Hardy was born in Dorset where he lived for most of his life and where he based the stories in his novels. The word 'madding' means frenzied and there is a sense of freedom I get being out in the countryside and being close to nature away from the frenzied atmosphere of the towns and cities. I live in Dorset and like Thomas Hardy, it is where I have lived for most of my life, my blog is mostly about nature in Dorset. I am a member of the Dorset Wildlife Trust. I will include my garden and anything of interest about the natural world in Britain.