Some of my blogs

 

I have sometimes been privileged to be able publish my thoughts on topical issues and here is a compilation of some of these articles published as blogs in recent years.The original articles can be assessed via the links provided.

1.     From May 2023: Icelandic Veterinary Authorities Speak Out Strongly on the Cruelty of Whaling Some thoughts on the news from Iceland that experts there find their whaling cruel. Blog HERE. 

2.     From October 2022: When the walrus comes knocking: a reflection on Wally and other out-of-habitat marine mammals Europe has recently seen several walruses coming much further south than usual – and these are not the only out of habitat marine animals that have recently been seen around the world. Blog HERE. 

3.     From November 2020: Requiem for a dolphin – reflections on the life and passing of a remarkable solitary sociable dolphin.  Concerning the life and loss of Funghi the dolphin from Dingle.Blog HERE.

4.      From September 2020: What does it mean when a whole community of scientists from across the world calls for urgent action on whale, dolphin and porpoise conservation. Blog HERE.

And here are two earlier contributions that may still be of interest from the Huffington Post 

5.       Firstly, from 2017: What the Whales Are Trying to Tell Us: Strandings - What They Mean and How to Respond  Concerning why whales strand following the mass standings of sperm whales in the North Sea Blog HERE.

6.       And, secondly,  from 2016, Why Whales Are Not Monsters - a look at the portrayal of whales as monsters, responding in part to the film just released at this time, ‘Into the Heart of Darkness’ which retells the story of the Whaleboat Essex on which the legend of Moby Dick is based. Blog HERE

Podcasts

A Podcast for the Society of Marine Mammalogy (SMM) talking about solitary sociable dolphins with Laetitia Nunny HERE

Another for the SMM concerning the vaquita and the IWC's new Extinction Alert HERE.

Exmoor images

Let me take you to Exmoor at high summer - the moors, the woodlands, the rivers and the shore.

View from Lynmouth hill at sunset.

Exmoor ponies.

A young robin with the Bristol Channel as a backdrop.

Polock Weir. 

Silver-washed fritillary.

Purple heather and yellow gorse at Countygate.

A distant sighting of red deer. 

The River Barle in the middle of the moor. 

Watersmeet woodlands

A resting dipper.

A slightly battered peacock butterfly rests in some oldman's beard.

A friendy Exmoor foal and her mum.