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Published Pieces

Things I wrote or made that were published elsewhere.

Bats podcast piece

New moon, Mercury and Venus setting over Heptonstall

I make a guest appearance in episode 16 of Melissa Harrison’s podcast ‘The Stubborn Light of Things’. Here’s an extended version.

Published 16-Jul-2020
Filed under: Featured Articles, News, Published Pieces Tags: bats, Melissa Harrison, podcasts

Notes from Nell Carr Farm

Notes on Notes From Walnut Tree Farm
My notes on ‘Notes From Walnut Tree Farm’.

‘Notes from Walnut Tree Farm’ is by far my favourite Roger Deakin book. His assembled notes and jottings are packed full of ideas. The signal-to-noise ratio is phenomenal.

Published 27-Sep-2016
Filed under: Published Pieces, Writing Tags: Caught by the River, Charles Darwin, Gilbert White, Roger Deakin

Hebden’s non-eponymous bridges

Hebden's Other Bridges

In which I describe a few of my favourite bridges from my photo-project ‘Hebden's Other Bridges’.

Published 25-Jul-2016
Filed under: Published Pieces, Writing Tags: Calder valley, Caught by the River, Dalesman magazine, Hebden Bridge, hebden's other bridges (book), photography, Yorkshire

Migrant waders anthology

‘The Migrant Waders’ poster 3

I have provided an article for a new anthology about wading birds.

Published 12-Apr-2016
Filed under: News, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: birds, Calder valley, Charles Darwin, favourite places, Hebden Bridge, Migrant Waders (book)

Nature Book Reader

Nature Book Reader
My entry in the Caught by the River Nature Book Reader.

My recommendations for some top nature reading have been included in the updated Caught by the River Nature Book Reader webzine.

Published 12-Oct-2015
Filed under: Published Pieces, Writing Genres: Nature & Place Tags: Caught by the River, Kathleen Jamie, reading

Invertigo

Milky Way
The Milky Way.

I’ve never seen stars remotely approaching those in Anglesey. There are so damn many of them. Thousand upon thousand. Too many to count.

Published 01-Oct-2015
Filed under: Featured Articles, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: Anglesey, astronomy, Caught by the River, favourite places, photography, science, Wales

LRB letter: ‘Weather-forecasting frogs’

Weather-forecasting-frogs

On the unlikely 17th and 18th-century German fashion of keeping tree frogs to forecast the weather.

Published 18-Sep-2015
Filed under: Published Pieces, Writing Tags: correspondence, history, history of science, LRB, science

Pleasures of August

Harebells
Harebells.

August on the Dee Marshes and the Pennine Moors, including encounters with a bolshie pheasant, a practising peregrine, and a flirty wheatear.

Published 28-Aug-2015
Filed under: Featured Articles, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: birds, Calder valley, Caught by the River, Dee marshes, favourite places, Hebden Bridge, nature, Wirral, Yorkshire

Prize-winning author lost on Moor

Julian Hoffman on the Moor

When your instincts and your compass disagree, trust your instincts. I mean your compass.

Published 08-Jan-2015
Filed under: Featured Articles, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: Calder valley, Caught by the River, expeditions, favourite places, Hebden Bridge, Julian Hoffman, On the Moor (book), the Moor, Yorkshire

Back-endish

Sea mist
Sea mist, early morning, Anglesey

How a mere week can make a big difference in the natural world.

Published 27-Sep-2014
Filed under: Featured Articles, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: Anglesey, autumn, birds, Caught by the River, favourite places, swallows, Wales

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