Impossible to mistake for anything else, grey herons are one of our most familiar birds. Tall, statuesque and found from busy urban parks to remote sea lochs, they are a common sight pretty much wherever there is water. Despite this, though, there are some surprising aspects to the life of the grey heron and, in …
This content contains affiliate links to Bookshop.org. When you buy through these links, I may earn an affiliate commission. Annie Proulx is best known as an award-winning novelist. Her numerous awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1993 novel The Shipping News. Fen, Bog and Swamp, however, is Proulx’s attempt, as a non-scientist, …
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 …