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Wild Life on Your Doorstep (Living Countryside S.) - Hardcover

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9780276396571: Wild Life on Your Doorstep (Living Countryside S.)

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Contents: Introduction (Wild life comes to our city centres. Pavements: life on the street. Natural life in our town parks. Finding refuge in the garden. The natural history of walls. The wildlife in our homes. Down in the dumps: compost heap life. Tip life: a throw-away society. Motorway verges: grassy havens. Life along the railway tracks. Wildlife among the tombstones.) Plants (Colourful street trees. Pride of London: London planes. Cherries from the orient. Golden chains of laburnum. Lilacs in the spring. Easy flowering forsythias. Buddleia: butterfly bush. Lichens in the city. Roadsides: plant havens. Persistent urban flowers. Weeds in the garden.) Insects. (Insects and Man. Butterfly winter sleepers. Cabbag-patch villains. Cockroach scavenges. Houseflies: the swarming hordes. Spiders that haunt our houses. Insects in the garden. Honey bees. The family life of the earwig. Ladybirds: welcome beetles. The black garden ant. Industrial Melanism.) Birds (Robins: friendly garden visitors. Sparrows of town and country. Black and white wagtails. Garden visiting greenfinches. Swifts on the wing. Swooping house martins. Acrobatic blue and great tits. The blackbird: a jaunty songster. Starlings: saints or sinners? Black headed gulls: living off the land. Mammals. (Twentieth -century urban fox. Bristol badgers: an urban success. The garden home of the hedgehog. The house mouse: an urban squatter. The old English rat in a steady decline. Success and the brown rat. Feral cats: back to nature. Town bats:serotine and pipistrelle. The bat with long ears.) Index.

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