"Mum please can you pass me the shrew when you've finished with it."
Not the kind of comment you hear every day, but during our nature up close event today there were all kinds of strange conversations going on. Children and adults alike were fascinated at the hidden worlds revealed by the microscopes and hand lenses. Magnifying nature is an insatiable activity, once you have seen the delicate detail and undulations in a dragonflies wings or a bracket fungus turn into a series of bottomless caverns then there is an urge to see the detail in everything. Feathers, frogs, fossils, thistles, slugs, seeds, skulls, lichen, bark, the list is endless, all waiting to be discovered in detail.
Why not make a date with nature and come to our next nature up close event on Wednesday 13th April. Look a spider in it's eight eyes, count a newts teeth, marvel at how hairy a bees knees are or indulge in the succulent depths of moss?
Some up-close nature (Sophie King)