Nature is healing: how deer, foxes, birds and bees are loving lockdown

Woods are where nature normally works its magic for Jim Lawlor, but these days it's the action outside his front door that leaves him spellbound

Caroline O'Doherty

Woods are where nature normally works its magic for Jim Lawlor, but these days it's the action outside his front door that leaves him spellbound.

A family of foxes that occasionally visited his Dublin garden now make almost nightly trips and will sit on his doorstep to see if they can coax him out with a few titbits.