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- Turbines, nightjars and forty per cent of the time
- Short fiction: Me and Heston walk all night
- Creative common: wandering on Hounslow Heath
- Early spring flowers of the Lesser Caucasus (including Georgia’s Javakheti Plateau)
- Martins and the Miocene: time warp in a Bavarian quarry
- Canute or the collective? Stemming the tide in our age of unreason
- Think of a heron, always alone
- What we talk about when we talk about pigeons
- The causeway and the wedding: ritual and hope on midsummer’s eve
- The bee and the damson tree: everything is connected
- Bare trees, soft light and a glimpse of the coming year
- 2015: thrice the kingfisher
- Time, tree planting and commuting with birds: hymn to suburbia
- Clatter of corvids on a blustery day
- Light, camera, action
Category Archives: environment
Turbines, nightjars and forty per cent of the time
The website says that ‘the turbines are visible from the shore approximately 60% of the time, depending on the weather.’ As the seas rise due to climate heating will we see the wind farm more or less? As the weather gets wilder, will we see more clearly more often? Maybe. Metaphorically, at least. Continue reading
Posted in birds, climate change, creative non-fiction, environment, landscapes, nature writing, Norfolk
Tagged habitats, heathland birds, landscape, nightjar, North Norfolk, Salthouse, Sheringham Shoal, swifts, turbines, wind farm
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Creative common: wandering on Hounslow Heath
desperate for an escape from the information overload, I was drawn back again and again to the blank space between the roads, a place that the Ordnance Survey map hadn’t coloured in. Continue reading
Martins and the Miocene: time warp in a Bavarian quarry
A hunt for 15 million year old fossils and a meditation on time Continue reading
Posted in birds, climate change, creative non-fiction, environment, landscapes, nature writing, Uncategorized
Tagged Bavaria, deep time, fossils, Miocene flora, molasse, quarry, sand martins
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Canute or the collective? Stemming the tide in our age of unreason
Twelve years until the damage we’ve done to the earth is irreversible, the scientists tell us. What can one person do? Continue reading
The bee and the damson tree: everything is connected
The bee and the damson tree: what happens on a Munich balcony is a bewitching reminder of the interconnectedness of things Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, environment, nature writing, Uncategorized, wild suburbia
Tagged bee, damson tree, elder twigs, Munich, Osmia cornuta, spring
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2015: thrice the kingfisher
I saw kingfishers along the river Crane three times this year. Each time I thought I’d burst. It’s amazing they’re thriving, given that the river has suffered four big ‘pollution incidents’ in the last four years.* The first glimpse of ice … Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, climate change, environment, landscapes, nature writing, wild suburbia
Tagged Kingfisher, little grebe, Reed bed, River Crane, Twickenham
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Into the woods: early autumn in the fifth element
I’ve often thought of broadleaved woodland as the fifth element, somewhere between air and water. Continue reading
Posted in environment, gardening, landscapes, nature writing
Tagged broadleaved woodland, cryptograms, habitats, High Weald, sandstone
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Take a walk, Mrs Merkel: dispatch from high above the G7 summit
At the tree line on Mount Schachen on the last day of May it was noisy. The mountain was being prepared for total shutdown. If the G7 is all about soft diplomacy, then there’s a chance our leaders might be influenced by more visceral experience. Please, Mrs Merkel, take them for a walk. Continue reading
Posted in biodiversity, climate change, creative non-fiction, environment, landscapes, nature writing
Tagged Bavaria, G7, gentian, glacier, mountains, Mrs Merkel, tadpole
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