Started reading: The English Path by Kim Taplin 📚
22.02.2026 14:52
👍 0
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Started reading: The English Path by Kim Taplin 📚
A bird feeder filled with seeds is hanging from a tree branch in a garden.
A green-lidded wire cage is hanging from a tree branch, filled with suet balls for bird feeding.
A hanging bird feeder filled with seeds is suspended from a branch in front of a brick wall.
Bird feeders scrubbed, dried, disinfected and refilled.
A particularly friendly robin caught in winter winds at RSPB Pulborough Brooks this afternoon. https://fieldnotes.walkingwithdaddy.com/2026/02/16/a-particularly-friendly-robin-caught.html
The last time we had free time on a dreich day like today, we went walking on the dunes:
www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/the-dunes-of...
Looks like the @kneppwilding.bsky.social white stork cam is live:
whitestorkproject.org/live-cam-feed/
Started reading: The Return of the Grey Partridge by Roger Morgan-Grenville 📚
Started reading: Time and Tide by Fiona Stafford 📚
A small mushroom with a brown cap and white stem is surrounded by moss, leaves, and twigs.
Fungi season. The woods were full of them yesterday.
"And then autumn is motorway rain and the dirty courts of service stations, greys and greases and the smeared crimson brake lights streaming into junctions, and days that seem to shut themselves down, disgusted and forgettable."
— Horatio Clare in Autumn, edited by Melissa Harrison 📚
Started reading: Autumn by Melissa Harrison 📚
Been doing a little fiddling with the theme on Walking With Daddy, now it’s all @ghost.org 6.0 compliant.
Feeling very happy with it.
walkingwithdaddy.com
WTF @wordpress.org – cmd+K to insert a link, as it has been for years, still visible in the toolbar tooltips, but when I type it I get this? Tell me this is a "me" problem and I can fix it myself, please.
A photograph I took of a particularly handsome bumblebee who is interested in neither the latest AR trends, crypto currency nor owning an SUV
Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business.
Spending some quality late summer time with my girls and the local nature reserve.
Started reading: The Hard Way by Susannah Walker 📚
I think I’ll pass it on to my eldest daughter when I’m done.
A delicate spider web hangs intricately between the branches, with a backdrop of blurred green foliage.
Stunning work there, Mr Spider.
Currently reading: The Accidental Garden by Richard Mabey 📚
Starting to work my way through the Wainwright Prize shortlist.
Anna Wintour leaving Vogue:
"Vogue editor-in-chief of 37 years and fashion mogul icon Anna Wintour will step down after the magazine’s next cover release. The inspiration for The Devil Wears Prada will conti... https://fieldnotes.walkingwithdaddy.com/2025/06/27/anna-wintour-leaving-vogue-vogue.html
Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers:
"At its simplest level, our job as artists is to respond to the human experience. But the art we make is a commodity, and our world wants things quickly, cheap... https://fieldnotes.walkingwithdaddy.com/2025/06/27/against-ai-an-open-letter.html
Started reading: The Long Man & Friends: Sacred Sussex by Philip Carr-Gomm, David Bramwell 📚
A book titled "The Cuckoo's Lea" is placed on a wooden bench in an outdoor setting with trees and a building in the background.
A book with bird silhouettes on the fore-edge is standing on a wooden surface with a blurred natural background.
Started reading: The Cuckoo’s Lea by Michael J. Warren 📚
Picked up one of the special independent bookshop editions from the Steyning Bookshop.
A stork is perched in a nest on a tall tree, with its chicks around. A crow is sat on a nearby branch.
Stalking the storks at Knepp.
#mbjune day 1: Tree 📷
A stork flying overhead at Knepp.
The treasurer speaking the the Friends of the South Downs AGM.
Spending the morning at the @friendssouthdowns.bsky.social AGM. Important to have organisations fighting for these places - but also important to engage with how they’re run.…
(It’s just out, from @argatyredkites.bsky.social and @birlinn.bsky.social. And I am literally taking it, a cup of coffee and a sandwich into the garden to get stuck in!)
A book titled "Waters of Life" by Tom Bowser, featuring a beaver, is displayed on a cardboard package.
I do love a book full of beavers.
Just arrived, and I can’t wait to dive in…
We’re sorry to hear that Henley Swim has stopped trading and won’t be running events this year.
Today we’re thinking of the swimmers missing out on an iconic event, and the Henley Swim team we’ve enjoyed working alongside.
theriverstrust.org/press-releas...
