Sightings · 7 October 2026
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Everything published so far, newest first. Each one is short enough to read with a coffee and specific enough to check.
Field report · 7 October 2026
Counting what you cannot see
Most of the animals in any given wood are not visible, and the ones that are visible are the ones that do not mind being seen. So how do you count the rest? This week I spent two mornings with a…
Research · 7 October 2026
What a decade of moth trapping actually shows
A new analysis pulls together ten years of nightly moth trap records from [number] sites and finds the headline everyone expected, plus one nobody did. The expected part: total moth abundance is…
Habitat · 7 October 2026
A river was given its bends back. The fish noticed.
For sixty years this stretch of river ran in a straight concrete channel, which is efficient for moving water and useless for everything else. Last winter the channel was broken out and the river was…
Sightings · 7 October 2026
The hedgehogs came back to the car park
Three years ago the strip of scrub behind the retail park was mown flat twice a summer and nothing lived in it. Then the mowing stopped, a volunteer group started leaving the edges alone, and this…