The internet would quite like you to keep scrolling. I’d rather you made a cup of coffee and took a break. The wild world rewards those who linger.
SFAS is best consumed slowly. These are stories about stopping for a while, paying attention, and remembering how much interesting stuff happens when we stop rushing around long enough to actually look. Spend a few minutes with birds, beasts, woods, weather, and whatever else I’ve stumbled across.
The rest of the internet will still be there when you’ve finished.
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Living alongside wildlife is wonderful. It is calming, restorative and endlessly fascinating. It brings foxes into the garden on summer mornings, sparrowhawks flashing past the kitchen window and tawny owls calling from the woods after dark. It reminds you, almost…
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I mean, given my photography skills, I was never actually going to capture the eclipse. There are photographers who do this sort of thing properly. They own specialist filters, understand exposure when the principal light source in the solar system…
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Meet the Wildlife Cast of Sparrow Farts and Sprawks Every long-running show develops recurring characters, like the opening credits of a slightly unhinged wildlife documentary filmed by someone with too much coffee and access to a back garden. You do…
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The Window and The Coal Tit The Sound of Something Losing It happened the way these things always do, with a dull, stupid thud that is not dramatic enough for what it means. Not a crash. Not a smash. Just…
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Let Nature Be Heard If nature had a voice, it would carry hope and grief in the same breath, weariness earned over millennia, and an ancient calm sharpened by quiet fury. It would tell tales of happiness, joy, and sorrow,…