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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 No-Work May, a new tradition which entails not working and 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. The pics below are by (L-R) Rachael Cocker, Jana Milovanovic, Tamar Witztum, Mary Muir and MC.

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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.