Featured Writing
A personal selection of my writing on this website. To access all of my writing, please visit the Writing section.
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Cocker, the walk
A short walk with Mark Cocker to admire the natural grandeur of a Yorkshire wood.
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Charles Darwin’s book-writing process
Charles Darwin’s approach to book-writing went through four key stages…
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19 July 2020
Weeding, and a spot of comet-watching.
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Bats podcast piece
I make a guest appearance in episode 16 of Melissa Harrison’s podcast ‘The Stubborn Light of Things’. Here’s an extended version.
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27 April 2020
A wonderful day’s wildlife.
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High tides and volant voles
An unplanned visit to the flooded Dee Marshes is rewarded with a wildlife spectacle.
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Orion’s belt-buckle
In celebration of my adopted star.
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‘Spiritual’ won’t do
In which I seek a better word to describe a profoundly uplifting sensation.
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The joy of the familiar—and the unfamiliar—on a local patch
Getting to know a place well means knowing what to look forward to, and appreciating when something unusual happens.
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An irrelevance in the landscape
On the realisation that the natural world gets on perfectly well without us.
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Turtles of the air
What links sea-turtles, swifts, and railway viaducts? Plus some handy ornithological photo tips.
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A monument to lethargy
Sloth is a much-maligned sin, as our driveway demonstrates.