Fifty years in the making

s a child growing up in the Cambridgeshire countryside in the 1940s and 1950s I enjoyed great freedom to roam the fields, rivers and woods around my home village. Without realising it I was attuning myself to the relationship between the birds and animals and the world in which they thrived. The word ‘habitat’ was not in my vocabulary but, 50 years later, by observing wildlife, I’m still