This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. In the UK we are lucky enough to still just about have four distinct seasons. Each has its own highlights, whether it’s more hours of daylight, crisp wintry scenes or spring migrants. But autumn is without …
This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. Whenever I’m staying with family in the West Country, I always make a point of visiting one of my favourite places: the Somerset Levels. This 650 km2 landscape is a mixture of raised bog, former and …
I’m a huge fan of citizen science projects like the Big Butterfly Count. These schemes mean that any of us can contribute valuable data to research projects around the world, as well as play a part in vital conservation work. And whether you want to help out from the comfort of your own home, or …
September is one of my favourite months because it means that our wintering wader numbers are really starting to build up. Birds that breed in the UK are joined by many more individuals from further north, filling our estuaries and saltmarshes with their bustling figures and plaintive cries. One of the most visible, and audible, …