Spotted Flycatcher Appeal

One of our most treasured songbirds, the Spotted Flycatcher, is disappearing. Once considered a common garden nesting species, the Spotted Flycatcher is now a bird that many people are willing to travel a long way to see. ‘Spotted Flycatcher’ Breeding Bird Survey data show a decline in the breeding population of 39% between 1995 and 2016, part of a staggering longer...

Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World

The following piece appears in an article published in FranticWorld. I think it might go some way into illustrating how mindfulness can help some of us finding peace in a Frantic World. Mindfulness is a very simple form of meditation that was little known in the West until recently. A typical meditation consists of focusing your full attention on your breath as it flows in and out of...

Nottingham City Centre at Night

Nottingham City Centre is the cultural, commercial, financial and historical heart of Nottingham, England. Nottingham’s city centre represents the central area of the Greater Nottingham conurbation. The centre of the city is usually defined as the Old Market Square,the largest surviving town square in the United Kingdom.[c A major redevelopment of the Old Market Square was completed...

Oystercatchers in Flight at Old Hunstanton, Norfolk, UK

Oystercatchers in Flight at Old Hunstanton, Norfolk, UK Oystercatchers are large, stocky, black and white wading birds. They have a long, orange-red bill and reddish-pink legs. In flight they show a wide, white wing-stripe, a black tail and a white rump that extends as a ‘V’ between the wings. Because Oystercatchers eat cockles, the population is vulnerable if cockle beds are...