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Nightingale singing at Blean Woods, Kent, Monday 6th May 2013
First time I’ve heard this iconic and declining bird. Listen for the machine gun fire of drips and drops. Also the ‘whee-whee-wheeee’ wheezy call. There are a few warblers in the background which...
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After Oaken Wood, ‘biodiversity’ has come to mean very little
An ancient woodland in Wiltshire, England (by D. Greenwood) “The very considerable need for both crushed rock aggregates and dimension stone, together with the eventual biodiversity improvements, and...
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The endless scene
King’s Wood, Kent, December 2012 The piles of birch trunks tell us that this chalky fringe of King’s Wood has recently been coppiced. The heartwood glows golden against the black, brown and grey of a...
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Photography: Beetle
Beetle on grass blade, near Otford, Kent, England, May 2015 I am walking the North Downs Way back to front, upside down and inside out. This beetle was doing its best to remain on a blade of grass at...
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Photography: Preserving the Hunting Act
Would you want to take to horseback and storm over hill and dale to enforce the slaughter of this beautiful wild animal? The British prime minister does. Personally I’d rather volunteer for a wildlife...
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Poetry: Swanscombe
Colts foot growing at Swanscombe Marsh The concrete and riverside flip flop driftwood and rope harrier haunting a level of reeds some policeman of phragmites of seedy beards that bend and shiver to the...
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Photography: Walking in the threatened landscape of Swanscombe Marshes
Swanscombe Marshes, August 2015 The Swanscombe marshes are threatened by an impending planning application by London Paramount. They want to build a theme park on this vast wildlife haven. Is that...
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Photography: Blean Woods, September 2016
Having been continually wooded for hundreds, if not thousands of years the Blean is an area steeped in history which is unusually well documented. The continuity in woodland cover has also resulted in...
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The Weald: 800 years of history in the Appledore tapestry
On several occasions I’ve had the pleasure of visiting the village of Appledore on the Kent side of the Kent/Sussex border. It’s where the Weald, a core subject area for this blog, moves between the...
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