What’s the First Thing You Saw?
What’s the first thing you noticed on seeing the image above? Was it the curved stick? Our brain is hard-wired from birth to notice shapes…
Tag: snakes
Animal Weather Signs in Montana
My thanks to Dean for this very interesting pair of emails from dry cow country, Montana, USA: Tristan, I’m getting to the last fifty pages…
Fast Recognition and Optical Illusions in Nature
Our brains are pattern-recognising machines. This is true everywhere, but not least in nature, where it honed these skills over millions of years. Bird calls,…
Fast Recognition of Wild Shapes
I took my younger son exploring a couple of days ago. We were looking for wildflowers and using natural navigation to roam across a wild…
An Email from Canada
Occasionally I post some of the wonderfully varied and international correspondence I receive (with permission). My thanks to Paul at BushcraftCanada.com for this little gem…
Ponds and Serpents
I went for a short circuitous walk in the Lavington Plantation area yesterday morning. Always on the lookout for natural navigational treats, I was also…