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A TEMPORARY GREEN BLUR

Thinking. Wandering. Watching.

Welcome to A Temporary Green Blur. I'm going to write about what inspires me about birds, nature, and the environment. Sometimes I'll write about what concerns or saddens me too. There's a lot to fill both buckets.....

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A Little Crake at a little nature reserve

It’s a cold November dawn, and seven birders are sitting in a hide at a tiny nature reserve near Milton Keynes, with tangible anticipation.

How walking can improve your mental health

I spent the second half of October in far west Cornwall, in the pretty little town of Marazion, just down the road from Penzance. It’s...

Whale watching in New Zealand

Put the wildlife on hold just for a moment. I'll begin with the first rule of Blog Club – always keep your blog up to date. It’s a...

Summer has come in....

“For you know, nuncle, The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long That it’s had it head bit off by it young” The Fool, King Lear (Act 1,...

Winter in Cornwall - part 2

In my previous post (https://www.atemporarygreenblur.com/post/winter-in-cornwall-part-1 ) I eulogised a bit about the two weeks we spent...

Winter in Cornwall - part 1

At the start of the year, we spent two weeks in Cornwall, staying at what is probably our favourite place in the world - Marazion. For...

Shakespeare's scavenger

It’s late on a chill winter’s afternoon and I’m standing on a ridge overlooking a typical southern English landscape. Dark clouds scud...

New shoots

Hello and welcome to my new blog! Spoiler alert – it’s going to mostly be about wildlife, the environment, and the countryside. That’s...

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