Country diary: Little miracles at my fingertips

Country diary: Little miracles at my fingertips

Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway: Turning the garden native a few years ago has transformed it – but just as astonishing is how I can now document its progressFifty years ago my first countryside article was published, A Kestrel Kills in Liverpool. The little falcon, nesting on the Anglican cathedral in 1976, until recently was replaced by a peregrine. Back in the day any self-respecting wildlife writer used a heavyweight Imperial typewriter…