Thanks Gordon, really pleased to hear that you enjoyed it. A Galloway Year should be out in June with more about Galloway’s wildlife and landscapes, exploring further afield than the confines of our glen.
Hi Steve, I’m not sure. Online it’s already available to pre order but not sure how that works with bookshops. I would have thought they could do the same. It’s due out on 10 June. Yes, battening down the hatches for tomorrow night!
I’m reading these two at the same time. Polar opposites in their approach to nature, both approaches having considerable merit as is so well argued in the respective books. I think I’m more JC than GL in outlook but both are brilliant, thought-provoking books.
After two years working on Wild Galloway (a solo project) it has been a real pleasure to join forces with Karen for our new book (coming soon). Her magical prints capture the varied landscapes of Galloway so perfectly. Writing about the wildlife these places support has been a year very well spent.
After two years working on Wild Galloway (a solo project) it has been a real pleasure to join forces with Karen for our new book (coming soon). Her magical prints capture the varied landscapes of Galloway so perfectly. Writing about the wildlife these places support has been a year very well spent.
Yes, sort of. It’s along similar lines though wider ranging across Galloway rather than focussed on our local glen. And with Karen’s superb prints and her notes on what drew her to each of them.
A sneak preview, and not necessarily the final cover. But a fantastic project to work on over the last year or so. Coming soon!
Another one for the extensive collection @ruthtingay.bsky.social. A brace of shot Pheasants, tied at the neck and given to a shooter. Only to be wrapped in plastic and hurled into the nearest river before washing up here on a remote Solway beach. They are bred as living targets rather than as food.
Little clusters of 11-spot Ladybirds all along this exposed metal fence in Oxfordshire. Seems an odd place to overwinter with so little shelter. Attracting the attention of walkers on the footpath as the cars roared by.
THREE satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland - two tags had been cut off.
Press release from Isle of Wight WTE Project Team & additional commentary from me ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
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A soft pastel painting of a river overhung by many spindly trees in winter. The sky is grey, the water is silver and the trees are brown, some of them delicately lined with verdant green moss.
Day sixteen of #ArtAdventCalendar.
Here’s a soft pastel painting of my local river in the depths of winter.
Well, this is quite extraordinary! Lovely Ian being so kind & generous about my book, but also, what a connection! Reunited with the memory of a dear, much-loved pony, in the galloped woods above Reading…
@nicolawriting.bsky.social has written a wonderful, stirring book, weaving together her knowledge of the landscape with those who have come before - the ghosts that haunt her local walks. I met a ghost too. My sister’s old horse Padjo gets an unexpected mention! Here he is over 40 years ago.
All with the tops on too, which means they float and so are more easily washed up. So these people take the trouble to screw the top back on, and only then chuck the bottle away?
The usual assortment of litter on the tideline and, ironically enough, an intact plastic litter bin washed up by the recent high tides. (Lucozade the most common plastic bottle on the beach, as it almost always is -- why is that?)
A painting of a rook in black ink. The bird is flying from the right to the left with its wings up and its feet lifted and pointing forwards, as if it is coming in to land.
Day fourteen of #ArtAdventCalendar
Here’s a rook, painted with black ink. Unfinished as yet.
Even their heartland is rejecting them...
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@iancarter67.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social
Ian - many thanks!
Nice shelves!
Britain’s best and worst songsters in the same recording. Compare and contrast!
Thanks Steve, hope you get on okay with it. In many ways it was a bit more of a depressing book to write than the Red Kite. A very different story to tell.
I enjoyed @iancarter67.bsky.social and Dan Powell’s The Red Kite’s Year so I have got a copy of this!
Wow! I bet there aren’t many folk out there who could beat that.
Took me one more than you, but up to 115 in a row now, quite a few by scraping through on the last attempt.
For a handful of nature writers, I want to read all that they write. The common traits? Knowledge, understanding, clarity of thought, and a knack for transferring it all to the page with humour and enthusiasm. Mark is one of them. And his co-author is very good too. @markavery.bsky.social
For a handful of nature writers, I want to read all that they write. The common traits? Knowledge, understanding, clarity of thought, and a knack for transferring it all to the page with humour and enthusiasm. Mark is one of them. And his co-author is very good too. @markavery.bsky.social
Very excited to share this! My new book, published by @pelagic.bsky.social is out June 2026 pelagicpublishing.com/products/tar...
Tarka Revisited - 100 Years of Rivers & Wildlife
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A group of people in a bookshop listening to a woman in a white shirt and navy trousers give a talk at the front.
Nic wearing an orange top and navy trousers showing her book, Land beneath the Waves. She is sat in a beige armchair in a bookshop.
Tonight's my 14th & last book-related event for the term. So grateful my limited energy has lasted (with many recharge sessions). I've spoken in bank vaults, museums, libraries, bookshops, rewilding sites & round the fire in an Iron Age roundhouse. It's been a ball!
@summersdalebooks.bsky.social
Yes indeed. It’s quite a conflict along various parts of the Scottish coast, and elsewhere too. The tension between those seeking quiet enjoyment of the wildlife and those after one for the pot.
The noisy early morning commute between the Solway and the fields where they feed. As I soon discovered, there were two wildfowlers hidden away directly below the flight line. Had these been Pink-feet rather than (non-shootable) Barnacle Geese, the spectacle would have been rudely interrupted.
