Author: James Common
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Excluding those closest to me, not many people will know that for seven years now I have been living with a severe hearing impairment. Partial…
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Modern society is growing increasingly disconnected from the natural world. That, unfortunately, is a fact. And it will come as no surprise to learn that many,…
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Now, this is a post for the avian-inclined individuals out there… For those of you who didn’t know, I set myself a challenge at the…
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Being outside in nature is something that everybody should make time for, especially as we are becoming such a digitally driven society. It’s interesting because…
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It’s December, the blushed tones of Autumn now but a fading memory and vibrant greens of Spring and Summer a soothing promise of things to…
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There is poetry everywhere in the natural world, but for me nowhere more so than in butterflies. What is poetic about butterflies? Poetry is a…
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I’ve dedicated much of my time to urban wildlife watching of late, specifically in and around the city of Newcastle – my home patch for…
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The RSPB’s Project Puffin has taken the first steps towards solving the mystery of why some puffin colonies in the UK are in dramatic decline.…
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Another week, another adventure, this time to the tourist hotspot and renowned centre of debauchery that is Benidorm. A location I first visited on a…
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There is an awful lot of negativity in the environmental field. Little wonder really, given the sorry state of the wider countryside, the downward trends…
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Unless you have been living under a rock, or are simply disinterested in this sort of thing, you will surely have heard by now that…
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The once familiar hedgehog has declined dramatically over the past few decades, and surprisingly for such a well-loved creature, very little is known about why…
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November is a month of rain and frost, of falling leaves and howling gales, the steady drip of birds coming to winter in Britain now…
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American Bullfrog Lithobates catesbeianus. Around twice the length of our native Common Frog, American Bullfrogs are most often identified by their loud, deep calls. Deemed a…