Writing tagged: ‘birds’
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16 October 2018
Everything is suddenly feeling very autumnal.
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Where has all the heather gone?
The Moor is looking decidedly lacklustre this August.
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Newsletter No. 14: ‘The terror Carter’s warriors’
Liverpool • Chinese warriors • Ben Myers • shoes on wires • Patti Smith • Wuthering Heights • stratigraphy • astronomy • ancient DNA • storm petrels • LIMONCELLO ICE CREAM!! • and more…
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Newsletter No. 13: ‘Bramblings!’
Bramblings • wheatears • Mary Beard • Beaker folk • Meera Sodha • recipes • John Tyndall • Eunice Foote • religion • Ben Myers • Austin Kleon • Walter Benjamin • giant sloths • Shetland • Neil Ansell • Charles Darwin • and more…
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High tides and volant voles
An unplanned visit to the flooded Dee Marshes is rewarded with a wildlife spectacle.
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Newsletter No. 9: ‘Teaser or spoiler?’
On the Moor • Zanzibar • container ships • giant ground sloth • Barry Lopez • indigenous people • Cambrian Explosion • Little Toller • Iain Sinclair • and more…
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Newsletter No. 6: ‘A borrowed dog’
Woodpeckers • ambrotype portraits • W.G. Sebald • a deserted hamlet • mission creep • prime meridians • W.H. Hudson • podcasts • street photography • bonkers • tapirs • coiners • and more…
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Newsletter No. 5: ‘Incongruous owl’
Dawn chorus • Simon Armitage • the invention of the telescope • huge, sprawling collaborations • Withnail & I • book smells • re-assembling Darwin’s research notes • converting walks into words • Daniel Dennett • writing letters • humanist politics • dentistry with stone tools • analysing penguin poo • Melissa Harrison • Robert…
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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.
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An irrelevance in the landscape
On the realisation that the natural world gets on perfectly well without us.
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Newsletter No. 1: ‘Kudos to youdos’
Patti Smith • W.G. Sebald • Sexual Selection • Roman chicken • Robert Graves • Swallows & Amazons • Thames Estuary • James Brindley • Spoonbills • and more…
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Spoonbill identification: harder than you might think
Struggling to identify a species is the best way to learn.