Archives 2025

20 October 2025

How to preserve your memories of a big fish

We put our fish back; we don’t eat them or stuff them in a glass case anymore, but I wanted something special to remember this splendid male Atlantic salmon- all dressed up in his Autumn spawning colours, complete with fighting kype. For the technical, fishers he took a collie dog on a single-handed eight-weight Orvis […]

19 August 2025

The Field book review

What's in a Year, as featured in the current The Field by Ettie Neil-Gallacher - thank you, Ettie

24 July 2025

Interview John Miller and Wild Food People

https://www.johnmillernature.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/wild_food_people_episode_14.mp3

29 June 2025

Podcast about What’s in a Year

https://youtu.be/faquwR5KC7U?si=ijOzFq_u45tmW-Q8

04 June 2025

Country Life June 04

15 May 2025

One day in the garden May 6th

Last Tuesday I spent a complete day, from 04:15 am to 20:00, photographing (David White) and sound recording ( Alex Bing) the birds in my garden in Wiltshire. We reached 40 species. Highlight was a cuckoo that streaked through the garden at 07:00 amĀ and this coal tit nesting in a disused water pump.  

21 April 2025

Support your local bookshop – The Whitehorse bookshop in Marlborough now selling ‘What’s in a Year’ – A countryman’s tale through the seasons

Save the date June 19 an evening reading of my debut book – What’s in a Year – Moderated by countryman Sid Vincent followed by Q&A  

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