The suburban garden is one of the Earth’s more bizarre habitats; a strict mosaic of cropped grass, patio and geometric rows of gaudy flowers, all overshadowed by the big rock where the humans live. Despite this, many species of birds have adapted to living in gardens and to its human inhabitants. Here a mother blackbird collects mealworms, placed out by the humans, to feed her hungry chicks in the hedgerow close by. The juxtaposition of this wild bird foraging for her chicks, with the washing line strewn with clothes and baby bibs in the background, emphasises the leap these wild birds have made to share our own gardens with us; their lives running in parallel with ours.
Will such beautiful chaos be around for our great great grandchildren?
