NATURE
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Guest blog – Midhope track, a final resolution by Bob Berzins – Mark Avery
Bob Berzins is a campaigner and activist. His previous guests blogs here all focus on the management, or mismanagement, of…
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My response to the consultation on heather and grass burning in England – Mark Avery
This is how I responded to the consultation on heather and grass burning in England. If you’d like to respond…
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Sunday book review – The Cuckoo Calls the Year by Peter Stroh – Mark Avery
The author is a proper botanist (see my review of a very different earlier book he co-authored) and he…
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Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 42 Calderdale Energy Park by Nick MacKinnon – Mark Avery
Photo: Lydia MacKinnon Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in…
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Sunday book review – Nature Needs You by Hannah Bourne-Taylor – Mark Avery
This is a good tale about the ups and downs of being a novice, but effective, environmental campaigner. It’s almost…
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Carl Jones – saver of species – Mark Avery
Carl Jones has a Kodiak Bear in his living room along with a couple of Giant Tortoises and many other…
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Six years in the garden – on this date (give or take a day) – Mark Avery
Mark April 30, 2025 Leave a comment Six years, for two trees/bushes, photographed on the same date. First the Lilac…
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Storm
I wrote a favourable review about this book – click here – and I now see that the book has…
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RSPB press release – Oldest Oystercatchers – Mark Avery
UK’s oldest known Oystercatchers discovered on England’s East Coast Wetlands Oystercatcher. Photo: Ben Andrew Two record-breaking Oystercatchers have been…
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Bank Holiday Monday book review – On Land and Water by Sheena Jolley and D.J. O’Sullivan – Mark Avery
This book melds the poetry of the late D.J. O’Sullivan with the photographic images of Sheena Jolley – it’s a…
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