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Nature notes: Latest wildlife photography, May 2020
The first in a new series of blog posts on my latest nature and wildlife images. Four weeks ago, I published a blog post called ‘The voices of birds: a greening of lockdown’, sharing my experience during the Coronavirus lockdown along with a few of my latest wildlife and landscape
What I’ve been reading this week, 30 May 2020
May’s messy alchemy, Minsmere threatened, preventing tick bites, and the latest guidance on hillwalking during the pandemic. (A lot of online writing has some link to the pandemic now, so these categories are more blurred than ever!) Environment and nature The wonder of May’s mossy, messy alchemy – Carey
Field notes: Back to Basics in Torridon
In the June 2020 issue of The Great Outdoors, you’ll find my feature about traditional navigation in Torridon. Here are some words and images that didn’t make the cut. For several years now, I’ve been a digital-first mountain navigator, preferring GPS and smartphone tools to paper maps
What I’ve been reading this week, 23 May 2020
Beginning with the redstart, a virtual TGO Challenge, tales from rural lockdown, and dandelions. (A lot of online writing has some link to the pandemic now, so these categories are more blurred than ever!) Environment and nature Country diary: let’s begin with the redstart – Mark Cocker writes about one
What I’ve been reading this week, 16 May 2020
The child in nature, ultralight gear for hot and humid conditions, views on how we should return to the hills after lockdown, and the fate of small presses in our new reality. (A lot of online writing has some link to the pandemic now, so these categories are more blurred
What I’ve been reading this week, 10 May 2020
Outside is where the fun is, art and burnout in quarantine, memory hole, and asking how we’ll go back to the outdoors. (A lot of online writing has some link to the pandemic now, so these categories are more blurred than ever!) Environment and nature Listening, noticing, knowing – this
The voices of birds: a greening of lockdown
Lockdown has brought many hardships, but for some of us it has created the chance to build a closer relationship with the wildlife all around us. Here’s what lockdown has meant to me. That we live in strange times is so self-evidently true that the phrase itself has become
The gear that I would have taken on the 2020 TGO Challenge
Sadly the 2020 TGO Challenge is not to be, but here’s the gear I would have been taking on my journey across Scotland… As I write this, I should be in Oban, preparing to set out on my very first TGO Challenge (here is a little about the route
What I’ve been reading this week, 3 May 2020
Thoughts on rewilding, nature’s undisturbed cycles, walking around the world, and no picnic on Mount Kenya. (A lot of online writing has some link to the pandemic now, so these categories are more blurred than ever!) Environment and nature Rewilding: More Thoughts – an excellent longer-form piece on rewilding from
Book spotlight: Wild Light: Scotland’s Mountain Landscapes by Craig Aitchison
Craig Aitchison’s second book, Wild Light: Scotland’s Mountain Landscapes, is one of the finest books of Scottish landscape photography I’ve seen in recent years. I read this book and viewed the images it contains well over a year ago, but it still sticks out in my memory
