This is the website of multi-award-winning author and naturalist Mark Cocker. The main menu gives you access to my various activities, especially my writing in book form, but also reviews and articles etc. A Journalism tab is nested under Books. My blog features further reviews and thoughts on current issues. The latest is here. There is an index to older posts nested beneath the Blog page.
You can find out about upcoming talks, masterclasses and events under Latest News. The publication of a new book The Nature of Seeing (October next year), is also featured. The Photo(s) of the Month changes constantly. This month it is Winter Woods, which have consumed me … well, winterlong. There is a Contact form nested under the Latest News page and I look forward to hearing from you. The pics below are by (L-R) Rachael Cocker, Tamar Witztum, MC and Mary Muir .
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Left top clockwise: mothing at 185 Lightwood Road, Eyeing Euphrasia at Longstone Edge, Derbyshire; supplying salts to silver-studded blue butterflies at Monodendri, Epirus, Greece; with Maria among the wild daffodils at Deep Dale, Derbyshire; in pursuit of Mezereon at Priestcliff, Derbyshire.
Praise for One Midsummer’s Day, 2023 SHORTLISTED – The Richard Jefferies Society Award 2024 ‘Lyrical and startling by turn, he reveals the extraordinary in the apparently ordinary… A jewel of a book.’ Caroline Lucas MP ‘It isn’t just a glorious celebration of swifts but of…