Sounds during a temperature inversion
Normally, air gets cooler with altitude and this is what we expect to experience. We see snow at the tops of mountains, but none in…
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Tag: birds
BBC Radio 4 Tweet of the Day
I was honoured to record Tweet of the Day for BBC Radio 4 recently. I chose the wood pigeon, more for its physical behaviour than…
Dawn Chorus Going Global
There will be an international collaborative radio dawn chorus programme going out on BBC Radio 4 from about 1am UK time tonight. It runs until…
Joshua Slocum and the Birds
My thanks to Pertti Pesonen for reminding me of these passages in Joshua Slocum’s classic, ‘Sailing Alone Around the World’: On the 12th, some hundred…
Interconnectedness
When developing an understanding of nature, one of the most exciting moments comes when the pieces start to join up. Take the scene in the…
BBC World Service Forum
There was a natural navigation discussion on the BBC’s World Service programme, Forum, on the weekend. In the programme, Bridget Kendall hosts Tim Birkhead (behaviour…
The Winds Around Thurrock Thameside Nature Park
I gave a talk last night at the Thurrock Thameside Nature Park, as a guest of the Essex Book Festival. There was a great audience,…
The Seagull Windvane
Here is a fun way to tell which way the wind is blowing if you can’t feel it: look up and around to find some…
Letters from Bob
For a slight change, I thought I would add a little correspondence from Bob Boxberger to the website. I enjoyed these perspectives and Bob was…