Skip to content

Richard Carter

  • About
    • About me (home page)
    • Contact me
    • Where to follow me
    • Now…
    • Books I read in 2023
  • Contents
    • Search
    • Site Map
  • My Books
    • On the Moor
    • Through Darwin’s Eyes
  • Writing
    • All Writing
      • Sidelines (blog)
      • Newsletter
      • Reviews
    • RSS feed

Writing tagged: ‘herring gulls’

Bull Bay headland

3 September 2019

Guillemots and gulls in action, and my favourite Anglesey walk.

Published 03-Sep-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2019, birds, crabs, flowers, gannets, gorse, guillemots, heather, herring gulls, linnets, ravens, sheep’s bit, tormentil, wheatears
Early morning down at the rocks

2 September 2019

Chilling out, until a peregrine kicks up a commotion.

Published 02-Sep-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2019, birds, herring gulls, nature waiting, oystercatchers, peregrines, Sandwich terns
Puffin Island

An irrelevance in the landscape

On the realisation that the natural world gets on perfectly well without us.

Published 03-Oct-2016
Filed under: Articles, Featured Writing, Writing Tags: Anglesey, birds, cormorants, dolphins, favourite places, gannets, grey seals, gulls, herring gulls, Manx shearwaters, nature waiting, oystercatchers, turnstones, Wales

RECENT SIDELINES

Duchenne facial expressions image LRB letter: ‘The reaction economy’ On Charles Darwin’s use of photography in his book about human and animal emotions.
Manuscript page of ‘On the Origin of Species’ Charles Darwin’s book-writing process Charles Darwin’s approach to book-writing went through four key stages…
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin Darwinian smut On my new ‘Daily Darwin’ project.
Gannet 2022: a year in photos My twelfth annual video slideshow.

LATEST NEWSLETTER

Rich Text Newsletter No. 31: ‘When nice old ladies wave’ Crossing paths with the queen · medieval books · palimpsests · pelicans · prehistoric forests · runways · light pollution · Stendhal · spiders · Musk · and more…

RECENT READING

RECENT PHOTOS

  • ‘Rich Text’ Newsletter
  • Richard Carter’s book: ‘On the Moor’
  • Richard Carter on Mastodon
  • Richard Carter on Twitter (@friendsofdarwin)
  • Richard Carter’s Facebook page
  • Richard Carter’s photos on Instagram
  • Richard Carter’s photos on Flickr
  • Buy Richard a coffee
  • RSS feed
  • The Friends of Charles Darwin
Richard Carter
The whole is greater than some of its parts.