Thursday was our first day out this year and so the first of my retirement. Saltholme was the obvious choice but we didn’t want the obvious, so we had a little walk out in Richmond instead. We’ve walked into Billy Bank Woods before but not since our courting days, when we finished the stroll withContinue reading “Wild man a wondering – Week 3”
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Wild man a wondering – The weekly wildlife journal of a would-be naturalist
Week 1 (OK, week 2, but let’s pretend it’s week 1) Consistency has always been my problem; my spirit animal ought to be a butterfly. If you’d asked me what I wanted to do once I was retired, I would have said, “I want to write more”. So, now that I am retired I determinedContinue reading “Wild man a wondering – The weekly wildlife journal of a would-be naturalist”
White and wild
Back in 2013, I realised an ambition and finally made a pilgrimage to a North East relic that I’ve been meaning to see for years. In fact I made two such pilgrimages that year. The first was to Durham to see the Lindisfarne Gospels which were on loan there from the British Library for threeContinue reading “White and wild”
To see a thousand things – a Northumbrian nature quest
This is an account of my quest to see 1,000 different species, in Northumbria, in 2021. Why? Well as an ecologist it might reasonably be assumed that I am quite good at identifying wildlife but while I may know “stuff” about wildlife, I’m not that great at “spot the difference” and with wildlife, spotting theContinue reading “To see a thousand things – a Northumbrian nature quest”
Raven on the Wing 