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I'm a Nature writer, that's not just what I do, it is who I am. 
Field-craft is about looking, listening, and interpreting habit and habitat.  Nature is full of surprises and there's always more to discover.. 
Reflecting on the day,  editing  images,  I seek to distil the essence of the experience, to recreate the thrill and immediacy.  
Each blog is a journal, on the day and of the day. Complete in itself,  each is a
piece in a mosaic,  a variation on a theme in the dynamic of Nature.
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South Walney

12/8/2026

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Cattle grazing the salt marsh

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Clouded Yellow and Brown Hairstreak at Arnside Knott

8/8/2026

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Clouded Yellow amongst knapweed at Arnside Knott

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History and natural history at SIzergh Castle

1/8/2026

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Painted lady with coiled proboscis about to nectar on verbena bonariensis

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Small Copper and Painted Lady at Sizergh Castle Gardens

30/7/2026

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A Small Copper nectars on Verbena flowers

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Smardale and an annual quest for Scotch Argus

29/7/2026

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Scotch Argus

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Humming Bird Hawk Moth at Sizergh Castle Gardens

19/7/2026

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Bright cumulous cloud over Scout Scar, 19th July

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Scout Scar- an English summer?

14/7/2026

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From Scout Scar escarpment looking down to the Lyth Valley and out to Morecambe Bay

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Scout Scar in the latest heat-wave of summer 2026

9/7/2026

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Looking south west toward Whitbarrow and Morecambe Bay from Scout Scar escarpment

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Witherslack Woods and Howe RIdding Wood now and then

7/7/2026

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High summer with Common Blue on seeding grasses

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Butterflies endangered and rare

4/7/2026

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High Brown Fritillary

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Six-spot burnet moth:  structural iridescence and aposematism

21/6/2026

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Six-spot burnet moth, Zygena filipendulae, on scabious

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Fritillary, Small Tortoiseshell and Six Spot Burnet

20/6/2026

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Three Small Tortoiseshell feeding on thistle

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Butterflies in the rain

17/6/2026

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Raindrops on strands of spide silk over a flush

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Wet Sleddale and Butterfly Conservation

10/6/2026

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Tussocks of Cotton grass down toward Sleddale Beck

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Scout Scar: mining bees, fly orchid, mountain everlasting

31/5/2026

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Mining bee

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Scout Scar with Painted Ladies and Mining Bees at your feet

30/5/2026

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Painted lady on the way to Scout Scar

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Latterbarrow with Adder's tongue,  Small copper and Small pearl-bordered fritillary

24/5/2026

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Drifts of aquilegia and pignut

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Scout Scar cliff-top flora

22/5/2026

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Flora of the cliff-edge

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Redstart below Scout Scar escarpment

15/5/2026

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Redstart singing on his display post

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Cormorant and Great Crested Grebe at Leighton Moss RSPB

13/5/2026

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Cormorant

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