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Shaftesbury & Gillingham

David Boag – Talk entitled “Natures Garden”

Event type: Meeting
Date: 3rd September 2026
Venue: The New Remembrance Hall
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Nature owns everything, even your garden! Leave your garden unattended for a couple of months and very quickly you discover nature is taking over. Even in a well cared for garden, wildlife abounds. My camera explores every area of the garden from the garden shed to the little pond and finds so much colourful, unexpected and sometimes unwanted wildlife. Surprises wait in the shed where birds may nest and spiders hide – tiny flowers we call weeds are so beautiful when looked at in close-up. Of course at night the garden becomes a secret playground for nature; badgers, bats, owls and hedgehogs --   So who’s garden is it?  It could be yours.

David is a wildlife photographer and author, teaches photography to both degree and wildlife illustration students.  He has led African wildlife safari trips and been a speaker on cruise ships, as well as having spoken at major conferences for organisations such as the National Trust, the RSPB,  British Trust for Ornithology and the Royal Photographic Society.