Mark Cocker
'It takes a whole universe to make the one small black bird'
Tag: nature
Christmas Books 2025
We’re constantly being told about the new-tech that will change our world. No technology has been more transformative across the whole of my life than the one developed in 1455: the good old printed book. I’ve read something like 47 in 2025 and in… Continue Reading “Christmas Books 2025”
Shieldbugs & Ponds, Pools and Puddles: UNOFFICIAL BOOKCLUB NO 12
Shieldbugs by Richard Jones, New Naturalist 147, Collins, £65, pbk £35 Ponds, Pools and Puddles Jeremy Biggs and Penny Williams, New Naturalist 148,, Collins, £65, pbk £35. This is a long overdue piece on the last two in the New Naturalist series, which is,… Continue Reading “Shieldbugs & Ponds, Pools and Puddles: UNOFFICIAL BOOKCLUB NO 12”
The Complete Insect: UNOFFICIAL BOOKCLUB NO 11
The Complete Insect: Anatomy, Physiology, Evolution and Ecology, David Grimaldi (ed), Princeton University Press, £30. If humanity is to shift up a gear in creating a sustainable civilisation, and thereby increase its own chances of survival, while safeguarding the rest of life on our… Continue Reading “The Complete Insect: UNOFFICIAL BOOKCLUB NO 11”
Bohemian Waxwing: Europe’s bird-of-paradise
My winter has been crowned by a visitation of waxwings to Derbyshire that includes a congregation on the Monsal Trail near Bakewell of c360 birds, among the largest flocks ever recorded in the county. I have waited half a century to see even a… Continue Reading “Bohemian Waxwing: Europe’s bird-of-paradise”
Volunteers ’23
In 2022 I remember how a major wildlife charity published with great fanfare a list of its favourite celebrities. Celebrities? I was …. unimpressed. With very few, notable exceptions, celebrities are to action-for-nature what bush tucker (off that god-awful tv programme) is to nature-connectedness.… Continue Reading “Volunteers ’23”
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