Weeding, and a spot of comet-watching.
19 July 2020
Featured Articles
A selection of my articles. (For the full set of articles, please visit the Articles section.)
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.
27 April 2020
A wonderful day’s wildlife.
High tides and volant voles
An unplanned visit to the flooded Dee Marshes is rewarded with a wildlife spectacle.
Orion’s belt-buckle
In celebration of my adopted star.
‘Spiritual’ won’t do
In which I seek a better word to describe a profoundly uplifting sensation.
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.
An irrelevance in the landscape
On the realisation that the natural world gets on perfectly well without us.
Turtles of the air
What links sea-turtles, swifts, and railway viaducts? Plus some handy ornithological photo tips.
A monument to lethargy
Sloth is a much-maligned sin, as our driveway demonstrates.