An unplanned visit to the flooded Dee Marshes is rewarded with a wildlife spectacle.
High tides and volant voles
dee marshes
Newsletter No. 4: Paint to pufferfish
Robert Macfarlane · Hilary Mantel · Martha Sprackland · Viking wool · Charles Darwin's reading habits · human evolution · praying to Elrond · drawing · making ink · Rebecca Solnit · insectivorous plants · do pufferfish hold their breath?
The Welsh side
In all my years visiting the Dee Marshes, I had never looked across them from the Welsh side.
Spoonbill identification: harder than you might think
Struggling to identify a species is the best way to learn.
Hats off to geology!
Geology doesn't receive the recognition it deserves. Our modern understanding of how the world formed and evolved is one of science’s great triumphs.
Peregrine-harrier tag-team challenge
In which I witness a peregrine and marsh harrier hunting together—almost as a team.
Pleasures of August
August on the Dee Marshes and the Pennine Moors, including encounters with a bolshie pheasant, a practising peregrine, and a flirty wheatear.
My bat-shit crazy hypothesis about rooks
A ridiculous observation concerning rooks, which can't possibly be right.
In the wilderness of Wirral
An unwelcome modern intrusion into one of my favourite wildernesses takes me on an unplanned medieval journey in reverse.