365 Nature – Day 54
In 2016 I’m doing a 365 Nature project. Each day of the year I will post something here about nature. It may be any format, a photo, video, audio, sketch or entry from my nature journal. It could be a...
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In 2016 I’m doing a 365 Nature project. Each day of the year I will post something here about nature. It may be any format, a photo, video, audio, sketch or entry from my nature journal. It could be a...
View ArticleBook Review:: Baby Birds – An Artist Looks into the Nest
I sat at our picnic table and watched the Bewick’s Wrens going in and out of our nest box carrying sticks, grass, feather – materials for building a nest. The box was red and solid, hiding the...
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In 2016 I’m doing a 365 Nature project. Each day of the year I will post something here about nature. It may be any format, a photo, video, audio, sketch or entry from my nature journal. It could be a...
View Article365 Nature – Day 248
In 2016 I’m doing a 365 Nature project. Learn more about the project and see all the 365 Nature posts. It’s frequent, almost always in fact, that I’m behind on the latest books. My to-read stacks...
View ArticleBook Review:: Lapwings, Loons & Lousy Jacks
The exact moment I became interested in bird names was the day I was walking through a Finnish nature reserve listening to an unfamiliar bird call and searching the trees trying to find it. As I stood...
View ArticleBook: Fauna & Family
In 2016 I read 39 books, not counting picture books which would surely triple that number and then some. Although I posted about a few of them during my 365 Nature Project, there were many I didn’t...
View ArticleNature Picture Books: Lila, Fox and Barnacle
We recently brought home a stack of books from the library and three in particular really stood out. They all had a nature focus but were very different in tone. Lila and the Crow Written and...
View Article2017 Review of Books
Somehow I managed to read 74 books during the year, so far, not counting picture books. They range from natural history to poetry, graphic novels and much in between. Below is a selection of some of...
View ArticleBook Review: Extraordinary Insects by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
If you know me, follow me on Twitter or read my writing, you probably have a pretty good idea that I’m a huge bug dork and partial to anything without a backbone. When Norwegian entomologist Anne...
View ArticleBook Review: Wild Geese by Nan Shepherd
Sitting on a bookshelf in my study, is a framed £5 note. The specific note holds no special value to me, but who is on it does. Nan Shepherd may not be a household name, but she has finally been...
View Article5 Marine Biology Books
It’s no secret that I spend a lot of time at the beach looking for and photographing marine invertebrates. Many, if not most, of my encounters lead to countless questions about what I’ve found. What...
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