Tag: bird
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Mavericks and Spirituality: Why the Urban Birder is less about the Birding and more about the Connection.
I got the incredible opportunity to interview an icon of wildlife broadcasting and ornithology a while back; David Lindo, aka The Urban Birder, for Bloom in Doom Magazine, it was a fascinating interview, and a remarkable opportunity. We discussed everything from spirituality and diversity to birdwatching, you can have a read here on their website:…
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The Wildife Calming Effect
I’m going to start by apologising for the absence of any writing that I’ve done recently; but the transition from a normal life (well…fairly normal), to that of an A-level workaholic (I’d like to say that I am, but I think my mum would say otherwise) has meant that the cracks, perks and creases…
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Backyard Jungle
A few weeks ago I was asked by the junior branch of the Wildlife Trusts; Wildlife Watch, to write a guest post on anything I wanted to, I ran a few ideas past them and was asked to go ahead with this one. I got the idea for this post because living in a fairly urbanised…
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Volunteering at College Lake Wildlife Trust
So earlier this week, on Tuesday, I went to my local reserve – College lake-for some volunteering. I decided to volunteer here as I not only thought the reserve was amazingly beautiful, but I also thought that the wildlife that I had seen there, particularly in the avian sector, was absolutely brilliant. College lake nature reserve,…
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#Inglorious12th
I’ve recently just looked through my timeline on Twitter, and I tell you what I saw there was marvellous; tweet after tweet after tweet with the hashtag ‘Inglorious12th’, it really does restore some of the lost faith I had that when you give people information about what they need to do, why it is important…
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Starlings in the morning
As you know, the early morning hours are the perfect time to go out and let the dawn chorus of hundreds of different birds wash over you; the robin with his light, tin-tapping chirp, the blackbird with his rich, bubbling melody, the chaffinch with his subtle scolding only to explode into a cacophony of rich…
Jasmine Isa Qureshi 