I am Alice Fenwick, a naturalist and writer living a few streets back from the sea wall. I have walked this estuary for twenty years and written about it since 2016. The marsh is my local patch, which means I know it in the ordinary way of a place lived beside rather than visited: which gate sticks, where the tide comes first, which bench catches the evening sun.
Saltmarsh Notes is a record of those walks. Birds, tides, plants, sea glass, the slow changes of the seasons. Everything here is seen on foot and written from one coast, in one climate, by one pair of eyes. There are no sponsors and no products to sell. If something is in these pages it is because I saw it and wanted to understand it better.
I write in the mornings, after the walk and before the day fills up. Some of it is careful observation and some of it is simply delight. Both belong here.