P is for puddle
What do Sir Walter Raleigh and Peppa Pig have in common? Puddles, the wonderful freshwater habitat
Bright stream
It’s just a slip of a stream, sixteen miles from clean spring to silt-dulled lake-end.
Nature’s fakes and frauds
Mimicry in nature is when a plant or animal gains something by using the signals sought out by another.
Peemail correspondence
What dogs are decoding and other secret messages in the animal world. A feature for 3 November issue of Country Life.
Brute Force with Art
'A thing o muckle constancy' - a drystone wall adventure with fathers and sons, a century apart, dyking in the Borders.
Otterly wonderful
A bright-eyed and bewhiskered otter face is hard not to love.
Between two bridges
Tweed memories in a poem
Why the white tail?
A curious question for Country Life, in which I examine scuts, rumps and rears and wonder why so many animals have such obviously flashy appendages.
Tripping the light fantastic – in Country Life
Five glorious pages in Country Life magazine
The Blessed Bramble
Singing the praises of the humble bramble in July's Scottish Field.