No green to be seen 2: “Dead From the Neck Down” in Wales
In September 2016 I posted “No green to be seen: a biodiversity desert on Slievenamon” about the void that was a conifer plantation on Slievenamon. David Elias, at his blog Dispatches from…
Category: birds
Researchers warn that bird feeders could aid the spread of disease
Rather sadly, a topic I have directly experienced myself. James Common Diseases among bird populations are on the increase and, as a growing number of households take to feeding their…
Poetry is Beauty’s Voice
Originally posted on Signs of Life:
“Words and measures do not give life; they merely symbolize it” (Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity 48). For any kind of beauty there…
Bird feeding and tracking notes, March 2018
Been a while since I <a href="https://seamhow much a local cat frequents our gardenussweeney.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/bird-feeding-notes-mid-july/”>I published bird-feeding notes. I was perhaps chastened by my unintended killing of greenfinches and felt there…
Review of “Life Ascending”, Nick Lane, Eurotimes July 2009
This fine book on evolution was well reviewed at the time and won the 2010 Royal Society prize for science books. Here is my review from Eurotimes . Or rather…
Snipe and Woodcock at 33⅓ RPM: Listen The Birds 8 / Hoor De Vogels 8
I came across this birdsong album in my family home lately. As will become clear, I can’t find out much about it online, but I felt that the aesthetic of…
Caddisfly Larva video by Liam Marsh
Back in February I reblogged an interview with underwater photographer Liam Marsh. I am pleased to report Liam has now won a British Wildlife Photography Award for a video of…
“Nature and culture have been replaced by landscape and literature”: Mark Cocker on the “New Nature Writing”, New Statesman, June 2015
I have previously cited this essay by Mark Cocker on the “New Nature Writing” as exemplified by Robert Macfarlane and Helen McDonald. Have been re-reading it and find, as often…
Séamus Sweeney 