Looking for goshawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don’t get to say when or how.

…that when you wanted to see something very badly,sometimes you had to stay still,stay in the same place, remember how much you wanted to see it,and be patient.If you want to see hawks you have...

There’s a superstition among falconers that a hawk’s ability is inversely proportional to the ferocity of its name. Call a hawk Tiddles and it will be a formidable hunter; call it Spitfire or Slayer and...

Shocking loss isn’t to be shared, no matter how hard you try.

Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all affliction,’ wrote John Muir. ‘Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal.’ Now I knew this for what it was: a beguiling but dangerous lie....

I think of what wild animals are in our imaginations. And how they are disappearing — not just from the wild, but from people’s everyday lives, replaced by images of themselves in print and on...

There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all....

What makes you a chaffinch?