Category: Nature Diary
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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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Upon my latest visit to Half-Penny, it was not that birds that, as usual, occupied my undivided attention. Despite both the local Kingfishers and Dippers…
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Some of my bird watching friends don’t understand why I write for Shooting Times. I explain that, although there is a difference of views on…
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Aside from being an unlikely location in respect of such an evocative title, Wormwood Scrubs is a name which is familiar for all the…
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I have written before about the virtues of blogging from a personal perspective and the ample benefits it brings in terms of personal development, networking…
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To those familiar with this blog, you will know that I owe my passion for nature almost entirely to my Grandmother. The lady who first…
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October is an exciting time in the naturalist’s calendar: a period of conspicuous and adrenaline pumping change as leaves redden, red deer roar and myriad…
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In a groundbreaking study on sparrowhawks, scientists have found that city birds in Scotland are more successful than their country cousins. In this study, researchers from…