A word of introduction is probably a good idea; I’m the Northumberland Wildlife Trust trustee who’s a geologist. I mention that because us geologists tend to see the world differently to most…

For the first time in three years there was no planting activity on the Kielderhead Wildwood site through April, May and June. This is the longest I have been away from site in that time too. As I…

Hi everyone, Graham has been expertly holding the fort for the past six weeks whilst I’ve been furloughed. Field work can now be undertaken again so I’m back! I was ridiculously excited to return…

When I was asked by Northumberland Wildlife Trust to blog about my lockdown sightings, I set out on my daily walk to photograph some of the birds at the coast. But halfway to St Mary’s lighthouse…

Lockdown has now been in place since Monday 23 March and it doesn’t get any easier does it?

Its surely a time of contradiction, much of life has changed and the consequences are both dramatic and mundane at the same time.

I shall be writing more blogs for the Trust, but for starters, every year three eider ducks, two male and one female, return to Cullercoats Bay, where I’m lucky enough to take my permitted…

This April, I’m ‘locked down’ in my small house in Hexham with three adults, a two-year-old toddler and a seven-week-old baby.

Just a couple of weeks ago I was pushing the buggy round my local nature reserve. The same trip I’ve been making several times a week for several months on my maternity leave. I’d stop at the…

In these times of relative confinement, we are not all lucky enough to have a garden, outdoor space or green area nearby where they can take regular sojourns into relative wildness and nature-…