Joy of Recording: Dave Clark

Joy of Recording: Dave Clark

Dave Clark, Ornithologist What a mindblast…Excuse the 60`s vernacular but as a 15 year old impressionable youth, leafing through the Woolies (Woolworth`s) record stack coming across the Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus is a mindblast, especially when you’re sheltering...
Nature at Home

Nature at Home

Maria Longley, GiGL Community Manager Stag beetles in garden (c) Sarah Wygas This spring Londoners have helped protect each other by curtailing our daily travels to stop the spread of the coronavirus. This has also, necessarily, affected our trips to visit greenspaces...
Book Review: The Meaning of Birds

Book Review: The Meaning of Birds

Chloë Smith, GiGL Partnership Manager I loved this book. So often did I quote it in the office, they asked me to write a review. Written with a warm affection for our avian friends, it reminds you of all the reasons you too love birds, and puts dozens of familiar and...
Joy of Recording: fourteen years of data

Joy of Recording: fourteen years of data

Tony Wileman My desire for identifying wildlife started at a very young age, sometime between five and seven, when it was usual for me to be found crawling under school huts. A lot of my childhood was spent crawling around looking at invertebrates in my local park in...