Birdsong
Assuming you have normal hearing, imagine a world without the sound of birds singing and calling. Even in our most industrialised and...
Apr 181 min read
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Tide
Dunlin flock off Hoylake, Wirral February 28th 2025 © Jeff Clarke Every 24.8 hrs (or thereabouts), two inundation cycles of...
Mar 32 min read
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Stranded
A New Moon and a misty night aboard an ocean-going ship generates a sense of bittersweet anticipation. Flickering wings appear...
Feb 241 min read
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Eremita
The Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita is well-named, it has been singularly elusive with regard to me. I have traversed its...
Feb 211 min read
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Key Change
I’m ten years old and my Dad says “C’mom Son, I’ll take you to a place I know with lots of birds”. We get in the car and it only takes a...
Jan 302 min read
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To List, or not to List?
Humans are inveterate list keepers, not always in a pragmatic useful sense, like a shopping list, but more of a personal tally sense....
Jan 222 min read
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The Un-Masked Singer
It had been hot and sweaty in the Dandenongs, but, at long last, the stifling heat of the day was finally subsiding. Right on cue a...
Jan 182 min read
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