Mark Cocker
Columnist at The Guardian
Naturalist and multi-prize-winning author. 13 books incl One Midsummer's Day, Our Place, Birds & People and Crow Country Guardian country diarist since '87.
Articles
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6 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Mark Cocker
Anyone interested in nature in Ireland or Britain is now assailed by versions of the word “wild”. Environmental professionals talk endlessly of “wilding” and “rewilding” the country. The introduction of long-absent animals – elks, bison and lynx – are hotly debated or, in the case of beavers, they are legally loosed into our rivers. Horticulturalists want to turn their gardens into mini versions of wilderness.
Country diary: I inhaled a whiff of wolf urine – it was the true essence of wilderness | Mark Cocker
1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Cocker
This place, which straddles two eastern European countries, has a reputation as the continent’s last primeval forest – a glimpse of a world before it was smothered in ourselves and the homolith. To arrive at night is to tunnel through trees for mile after mile without end. And this, you realise, represents a fraction of the whole. Because beyond the border the Belorussian section of Białowieża is larger still.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Cocker
I initially assumed that the depths near the centre of the pond were entirely sealed off from my air-breathing world above, with its relentless sunshine and skylark song. But no. I gradually realised that the life within was sensitive to the outside, and to me. The more inanimate I became, the more the underwater place revealed itself. Initially, it was just whirligig beetles, backswimmers and pond skaters sailing across the pond’s meniscus past my feet.
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1 month ago |
msn.com | Mark Cocker
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Mark Cocker
On the path to Wincle Minn, I heard redwings singing from the treetops. It was notable because, while 700,000 of them winter in these islands, barely 50 stay to breed. Yet the birds migrating back to Iceland or Scandinavia, lulled by increases in day length and temperature, start to tune up until the whole flock catches this pre-song habit.
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