Sea Urchin – forty years ago in my nature notebooks
Forty years ago today I was happy with my head in a rock pool and beach-combing in South Wales. Today I’m happy …
Forty years ago today I was happy with my head in a rock pool and beach-combing in South Wales. Today I’m happy …
Forty years ago today I was 12 years old and combing the beaches in Tenby looking for interesting finds for my nature …
Forty years ago my nature notebooks show that I wasn’t just observing the natural world but I was prodding it and poking …
Forty years ago I was a 12 year old boy and was busy writing my nature notebooks. I made detailed drawings of …
I always thought that it was odd that so much seaweed washes up on beaches. If seaweed has evolved over millions of …
40 years ago I was on holiday and writing my nature notebooks with a full account of every species that I identified. …
Forty years ago I was 12 years old and had just started my nature notebooks. I drew what I saw on holiday …
Small Periwinkles are beautiful. Forty years ago today on 15 August 1976 I was on holiday and I was describing them in …
Butterflies are very noticeable insects. They have large bright wings and fly during the day. How they escape being eaten by birds …
Sometimes there’s just too much wildlife going on here in Westray. We’re sitting on the beach in Pierowall Bay watching the seals …
Forty years ago I was twelve years old and had been using a Single Lens Reflex camera for a couple of years. …
Forty years ago I was scouring the beaches at Tenby looking for any interesting living creatures. As is so common, I only …
One of the greatest things you can have as a child is a love of the natural world. To have the capacity …
Forty years ago today, on 11 August 1976, I was 12 years old, my family were on holiday in South Wales, and …
Black Guillemots seem to be called Tysties on Orkney. This one has caught something tasty. It looks to me like a Butterfish. …
Peeled paint litters the floor at Einar. There’ so much on the floor that I have to sweep it up. There’s more …
There’s such a crack in the wall at Einar I could be in an episode of Dr Who.