This is where I share updates on my writing and conservation work, thoughts on topical conservation issues, and news about nature and the artists who are inspired by it. Sometimes I blog about other stuff, too.
John Alec Baker was born 100 years ago, on 6 August 1926. His book The Peregrine is a classic of nature writing.
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For a few years, kestrels have been dominating my fieldwork, my writing and my thoughts. And have you heard the one about the Bishop and the kestrel?
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As part of my blog series The Long Spring - ten years on, I recall a walk around a favourite town, and the common wayside flowers of central Spain.
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As part of my blog series The Long Spring - ten years on, I recall the first appearance of a bird that was to accompany me for virtually the whole of the rest of my journey, all the way to the far north of Norway.
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At least 700 species of plants, animals and fungi are found in the UK and nowhere else in the world....
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Laurence Rose’s ‘inspiring, eye-opening read’ (The Spectator) appears in a second, revised edition next month, with new material looking back...
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3 February is – for those who celebrate – the first day of spring. At least it is in Spain,...
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The arrival of a strange, whitish-pink kite made me think of the time when this was a ghost of a species, hovering at the edge of oblivion.
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A post-industrial landscape rich in wildlife is the inspiration for new writings, and new ideas about the nature of nature.
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The unexpected appearance of a barn owl in broad daylight on a snowy November day, as I was writing about…...
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