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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. The 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 (coming in October 2026), is also featured. The Photo(s) of the Month changes constantly. This month it is on No-Work May, a new tradition which entails devoting the holiest month to Nature, primarily birdsong. There is a Contact form nested under the Latest News page. I look forward to hearing from you.

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Left top clockwise: mothing in Buxton (Rachael Cocker) inspecting a wild cherry tree and its epiphytes near Struay in Scotland (Jana Milovanovic); eyeing Euphrasia at Longstone Edge, Derbyshire (Tamar Witztum) ; in pursuit of Mezereon at Priestcliff, Derbyshire (Mary Muir); with Maria among the wild daffodils at Deep Dale, Derbyshire (MC).