A Birdy Bird

Some non-naturalist friends asked my husband to describe a corncrake. He said, "Well, its a birdy bird with a birdy beak." I think that is quite a clever description.  A corncrake has the shape of an archetypal bird, similar to what a child would draw.

Letter To A Wolf

Thanks to the BBC 

I wrote this short story a while ago after a trip to Sweden to record a programme on wolves.  While we were there the pack of wolves we had been following (we didn't see them, only their tracks) were highlighted to be culled.  Here is the story i wrote when I heard the news...

Letter to a Wolf by Mary Colwell

Plastic hell

Please watch this and then do something.