Started reading: The Long Man & Friends: Sacred Sussex by Philip Carr-Gomm, David Bramwell 📚

Started reading: The Cuckoo’s Lea by Michael J. Warren 📚

Picked up one of the special independent bookshop editions from the Steyning Bookshop.

A book titled "The Cuckoo's Lea" is placed on a wooden bench in an outdoor setting with trees and a building in the background.A book with bird silhouettes on the fore-edge is standing on a wooden surface with a blurred natural background.

Stalking the storks at Knepp.

#mbjune day 1: Tree 📷

A stork is perched in a nest on a tall tree, with its chicks around. A crow is sat on a nearby branch.

A stork flying overhead at Knepp.

A stork is soaring through a blue sky with its wings fully extended.

Started reading: Waters of Life by Tom Bowser 📚

I do love a book full of beavers.

Just arrived, and I can’t wait to dive in…

A book titled "Waters of Life" by Tom Bowser, featuring a beaver, is displayed on a cardboard package.

Rowan Williams on David Attenborough:

There are people who seem to think concern for the natural world somehow sidelines characteristically human concerns. David Attenborough makes it clear deep attention to our environment nourishes all that is most humane and generous in us – and if we lose this capacity for caring attention, we lose our souls.

Oh, for more thoughtful, attentive people in public life.

Shoreham Beach, 6.45am, Easter Sunday

A seagull is flying above crashing waves and rocks on a pebble beach.

Travel from most countries to the US is dropping under Trump.

This is a presidency with no understanding of complexity. The second and third order effects of what they’re doing will be more and more painful to the average American.

Spring anemone.

A white flower with green leaves is nestled next to lush green moss.

Our first visit to Kingley Vale.

Interesting selection of stickers, found rather randomly on a Sussex gate.

A weathered metal surface with multiple colorful stickers displayed. From left to right: a black circular sticker with white text reading "Escape the Dash Collective Everyday," a cartoon sticker of a character wearing a beanie labeled "2K," a black and white stylized face, a bold red and white sticker that says "Wald Seite" with a neon green label over it reading "#WeToldYouSo," a round sticker of a bee with the word "trespass" above it, a sticker showing a surreal white creature on a blue sky background labeled "Hit Clouds," and a sticker depicting a silhouette of a castle or tower with the word "leyline" below it.

Back at the Brighton Dome for the Blue Film Programme of the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival world tour.

A theater audience is gathered for an event with a large screen on stage displaying "WELCOME" and "BANFF 2025."

I think spring is finally here.

A lush green field with tire tracks stretches toward a line of bare trees under a clear blue sky.

When you are young and naive you think the professionals involved will sit down soberly, look at the evidence wisely and then labour long to achieve a good end based on sound science and experience. As you get older you realise that it is commonly not this way.

— from Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow 📚

Nice to have company up on the downs.

Four sheep are grazing in a grassy field with trees and a cricket screen in the background.

Last Sunday of March, the first of British Summer Time.

7.35am, South Downs, near Lancing College.

Song thrushes and skylarks singing.

A tranquil rural scene features blooming daffodils under a tree beside a wooden fence, with a grassy field and wooded hills in the background.A sunlit, grassy field is bordered by a wooden fence and decorated with blooming daffodils in the foreground.

Have no regard for the words of the witless. They neither love nor care.

From Bringing Back the Beaver by Derek Gow 📚

Oh, dear: UK on alert after H5N1 bird flu spills over to sheep in world-first - Ars Technica:

The H5N1 bird flu has spilled over to a sheep for the first time, infecting a domesticated ruminant in the United Kingdom much like it has in US dairy cows, according to UK officials.

😬

Such a teasel.

A dried teasel plant with spiky bracts is in focus against a blurred natural background of trees and foliage.