Day 16: Gaining inspiration from last year’s 30 Days Wild, Wednesdays will be RAW days, meaning Random Acts of Wildness. In this series I’ll be using The Wildlife Trusts’ 30 Days Wild app, and the 365 Days Wild book to help choose the day’s theme.
Today’s RAW is, explore a wild place.
Recently I took Riley for a walk to a local cemetery, one I hadn’t visited in such a long time and yet it’s not far from home. Toxteth Park Cemetery was opened 9th June 1856 and is grade II listed. The cemetery is also a location of Commonwealth Graves with 274 service personnel interred, the majority from the First World War. We took an hour long, leisurely walk around the cemetery with mum alongside and looked at some of the headstones we passed. There were rich families from Victorian Liverpool resting alongside orphans and modern day Liverpudlians. Social history was clearly evident with inscriptions of children not living passed a year, highlighting the plight of high child mortality in Victorian Britain. There was even one grave of a man who had died in an explosion on the RMS Mauretania.
But we were there looking for signs of wildlife. There were many bees flying between the headstones and the odd grey squirrel jumping about, but it was the bird life that was abundant. We saw wood pigeons, starlings, sparrows and a thrush. At one stage even a black backed gull wandered along the pathways.
Have you visited an unusual spot looking for wildlife?
Thanks for reading, and stay wild!
Christine xx
Christine Lucas 
Wish I’d known you could’ve looked for my great grandad grave!😃
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We go occasionally, what’s the name? I’ll have a look next time we are there xx
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Graveyards are usually full of wildlife, yet I quite often forget to look in them. Do I spy an unusual cat headstone there? X
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lol, yes I found the cat statue cute and strange to be in the graveyard 🙂 x
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