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We’ve moved house lately and the village we’ve moved to backs right onto RSPB’s Hope (Grange) Farm. On one of…

Obviously, this is something of a false dichotomy. But yesterday I went out to my local RSPB reserve. On the…

One thing I’ve learned this week: those projects that never quite get started, the ones that you don’t quite know…

I had a rather tame New Year’s Eve. The result, however, was that the next morning I was clear-headed and…

Hares spring loose From the woods. They race towards you And chase and box The cold from your bones.

In February the late night ‘twoo’ of the tawny owl crosses the threshold from the waking world into sleep. My…

On Thursday’s BBC Question Time MP Jacob Rees-Mogg bemoaned the environment holding up so many developments, asking whether we couldn’t care…

Rooks One by one Take (Or Fake) Shelter In bare branches Exposed to Winter winds. But all at once It’s…

A transcript of my talk at the Natural History Museum on 11 December 2015. A place where birds don’t fly…

The mount squats like a silent goddess Above the fuchsias and the village shop That play like children at being…