Back in the autumn of 2018 I was asked by a fellow recordist at a Wildlife Sound Recording Society meeting whether I would be interested in becoming a river champion for the River Rib, a chalk river in North-East Hertfordshire that we have had the privilege of living close to…
It has been our privilege this summer to takeover a Bat Conservation Trust waterway survey route. We learned of the opportunity when we met Anne and Chris at an early meeting of Friends of the River Rib back in May who for a number of years have conducted the Standon…
It was ten years ago to the day that The Badger’s Eye first made an appearance on the internet, triggered by an encounter with a young badger and the photograph that I managed to take. Sitting in the dappled light of a July evening, downwind of a badger sett no…
Time on the riverbank is always a pleasure and on an evening stroll through the meadows and paths that follow the River Rib last evening we were accompanied by clouds of butterflies – Marbled White, Meadow Brown, Ringlets and the occasional Cinnabar Moth to add a flash of red to…
It is last light on Monday evening and we are sitting in the garden drinking a cup of coffee. A faint snuffling catches the ear coming from below the bird feeders. It’s no surprise to find it is a hedgehog and I guess it is not beyond the bounds of…
The full moon was heading towards the west yet still bathing the valley with it’s silvery light from a cloudless sky as I crept passed the last houses in our hamlet and headed north. Trying to avoid the crunching gravel that accumulates in the centre of the lane, I walked…
I first came across The London Sound Survey when exploring the backwaters of CaughtBytheRiver.net, the wonderful babbling brook of nature inspired ‘antidotes to indifference’ that I have been visiting now for over a decade. Produced as a labour of love by Ian Rawes, the London Sound Survey documents the sounds…
