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A Vision Of The Future
Added 01/09/2011 to Whisperer Blogs, Features & Articles
A month ago I returned from a month in Hungary's Aggtelek National Park, where I gained a fascinating insight into a pre-industrial life; a glimpse of how at one time in the past, and again in the future, we might coexist completely and entirely with the natural world....
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Stone The Crows!
Added 26/03/2011 to General News
No, don't. But I just felt like sharing a few things about Ravens, perhaps the most intelligent member of that most intelligent avian family, the crows. Ravens are startlingly clever. Last year, I went to a quarry in the Forest of Dean. It soon became clear that a pair of Raven were breeding here and, sure enough, a vast mess of twigs suspended in a cliff crag looked like a safe bet for an active nest. I sat quietly and waited, confident that, given time, the birds would return to their dwelling in the sheer rock. What happened instead was considerably more surprising....
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Heraldry and Heronries
Added 24/02/2011 to General News
Now, as they have done for thousands of years, herons flop from their winter ditches and ponds to refurnish vast stick platforms in their high woodland heronries; primal, haphazard places filled with noise and droppings. Vast, scruffy nests vie for space in the canopy and the adults, with their crown feathers now raised, posture and strut in a bid to maintain their tiny territories. Up to forty nests can be crammed into one tree, although, more often, the birds....
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The Twitcher And The Caveman
Added 31/01/2011 to General News
As wildlife-watchers, our modern relations with nature are pretty relaxed. We hunt animals at our leisure, with cameras, binoculars or guides, with lists, with the internet, with obsession or admiration. This is evidently a very recent phenomenon. Yet long before man learned to grow crops, his mental and physical preoccupation with the natural world determined his survival. Binoculars took the form of spears. Yet how much has changed?
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