Richard Carter

Writing tagged: ‘birds’

  • 16 October 2018

    Everything is suddenly feeling very autumnal.

  • Where has all the heather gone?

    Where has all the heather gone?

    The Moor is looking decidedly lacklustre this August.

  • High tides and volant voles

    High tides and volant voles

    An unplanned visit to the flooded Dee Marshes is rewarded with a wildlife spectacle.

  • The joy of the familiar—and the unfamiliar—on a local patch

    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

    An irrelevance in the landscape

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

  • Spoonbill identification: harder than you might think

    Spoonbill identification: harder than you might think

    Struggling to identify a species is the best way to learn.