Skating on water
I always enjoy seeing pond skaters, as childhood memories flood back: Today there are some large ones on this brook and I’m …
I always enjoy seeing pond skaters, as childhood memories flood back: Today there are some large ones on this brook and I’m …
We’re having a trip to Dartmoor and I decide to stop off for a quick fungus forage. Down by the bridge there’s …
Emergency Lullabies by Merry Hell
I’ve been to Start Point before. I came here with my son one morning, very early, and took photographs in the fog. …
There’s a fungus which is barely visible on the forest floor. It’s Tolypocladium capitatum, the Drumstick Truffleclub. It’s a parasitic fungus which …
Walking around Bovey Heath we spot a Wasp Spider. It’s a fantastic specimen. Just look at it: I manage to get between …
These chickens at Challacombe Farm have the look of an ancient painting about them. The farm is owned, like 52,760 hectares of land and …
Beetles are never boring, unless they’re tunnelling, of course. How fabulous are these tunnels under the bark of this tree? I’d love …
A few months ago we had a trip to Dartmoor and saw Barn Swallows enjoying some of their first weeks of flying. …
An Orkney Triptych – Book One by Erland Cooper and Alex Kozobolis
On Christmas Day we went to the South Devon fishing town of Brixham. It was a beautiful day so we decided to …
It was Christmas Day 2019 and the Puffin Whisperer and I went for a day trip to Brixham. We spent the morning …
Would you like to know the most effective way of encouraging wildlife this winter? Here are some of my personal suggestions which …
Spending time in nature really helps you appreciate it. I’ve had such a great summer on the gentle hills and cliffs of …
It’s a warm evening, bathed in orange light. I hear the call first. Then it’s the flypast. It’s a Curlew. There’s been …
I have to say it. These juvenile Arctic Skuas are… a little bit ginger. It’s fabulous to watch them sweep imperiously past. …
I’ve seen Arctic Skuas get into quite a few scraps this summer. There was the time one chased a Raven. Then the …
Adenine by Adenine
Three years ago I took a trip around my old home town of Oldham. It’s the place in which I grew up. …
There is a family of Wrens flitting along the field boundary in front of us. They’re working the margins for insects and …
Arriving on Papa Westray, we have to walk the full length of the island to get to North Hill and the drama …
There’s a Kittiwake at the end of the pier where the Papa Westray ferry arrives. It’s stunning in the early morning light. …
There’s a rock pool fed with fresh water fram a tiny waterfall on the west coast of Westray. I love how green …
After seeing a couple of successful attacks by Great Skuas against juvenile Kittiwakes I feared the worst when this one strayed over …
Secrets of a Devon Wood by Jo Brown
I love walking the west coast of Westray. On a beautiful day there’s no place like it. I’ve been enjoying getting to …
If rocks could think and feel and see then life would be very different from their perspective. These rocks are so contorted, …
I look out of the window and I know something seriously weird is happening. It looks like the end of the world …
I had such a wonderful time last winter going to see Great Northern Divers in Brixham in Devon.
Arctic Skuas come to Orkney to breed. They’re kleptoparasites, attacking birds with fish and stealing their meal. They also attack people with …