Extolling the virtues of tolerance, Packham said “draconian choices” like “I don’t want slugs and snails to eat my plants” puts the gardener at risk of losing other wildlife such as hedgehogs, slowworms and song thrushes. “That’s a tragic loss to the garden,” the BBC Springwatch presenter told the Radio Times magazine. “The song of the thrush is the closest you’re going to get to a nightingale in the 21st-century British garden. Facebook Twitter Pinterest The song thrush is the modern-day nightingale, says Packham. Recently, Packham was cleared of two counts of assault in Malta after confronting hunters who had trapped wild birds.

Source: The Guardian July 03, 2017 22:52 UTC