You know how I proposed that the nettles and the brambles on the woods - the only things that can grow in soil that has been disturbed in...

There seem to be a lot of male blackbirds. Maybe four or five and two females. I started to wonder if this was chance or if there was...

I have been thinking about learning from non-humans. Of course, they are not there to teach us, but attending to them, just as attending...

As I was making this video, the quality of the light as well as the disease of the sycamores instilled a certain melancholia. Before...

I found this article that I really like. It's by a guy called Ritchie Nimmo . I'm interested in this because I think hat the focus on...

My goal that day was intimacy — the tactile, olfactory, visual, and sonic details of what, to most people in my culture, would appear to...

Tane showed his true colours the other day: chasing off a poor dunnock who was trying to eat on the green box. The first time, he just...

That thing about oneness - humans may experience “oneness” in meditation or psychedelics and then assume that that very experience is...

"Embracing tree-time as a sacred ritual" - this is one of the AI suggestions today for a topic on my blog. It's somewhat unnerving. The...

It is immensely gratifying to see the little birds foraging from the feeders. And then there is also this sense of "what a good person I...

The useful day started with a song thrush singing lustily. I was at the reserve to volunteer. Tidying up where Scots pines had been...

Feeding the crows has been frustrating as the gulls end up with most of the food. The Driveways and the Unbraves get a decent amount, but...

All this happened before the pied wagtail showed up. I went out with the afternoon refill for the feeders, and a blue tit was alone on...

Another walk, another video. I have been visiting these trees for quite a while now and the way the ash leans into the oak has always...

A friend sent me this article about how birds breathe. She wrote, "breathing for birds is continuous flow, not there-and-back. What must...

Lately, I haven't seen much of the squirrels. One eats on the patio when I am inside, but instead of the constant coming and going,...

Erik Jampa Andersson sent out an interesting piece about this transition time between Winter and Spring. He talks of a time of...

Here's what I think: that nature people, conservationists, biologists, naturalists, however we term them, favour either beings or...

I went to see the King Oak and ended up visiting the Queen Ash, finding two other ancient oaks and two badger setts! King Oak, AKA...

The Young Vic was my destination. The play starred Anne Marie Duff , who was excellent. Though the first review I looked at (just now)...