Many of you may be asking right about now “what has Mark Avery been reading recently?” I was curious about that very question myself – so I popped over to his website and as I discovered, he’s been reading quite a lot.
Catching Up With Mark
nature
Blue Desert / Frog Mountain Blues
When it came to prisoners, Charles Bowden took none. Fools? He suffered none. And as for quarter or fu… well, none of either were given. Bold, sometimes brash, fiercely loyal, a blood enemy or the cruel and the greedy, with a heart as big as the wide open spaces of the American southwest that he came to call home and a mind with the seemingly limitless capacity to instantly recall a bewildering assortment of fact and figures, he was truly an original.
Britain’s Dragonflies, 4th Edition
On my recent travels in England, just before making the pilgrimage to the BirdFair, I had the great good fortune of exploring the area around Radley Lakes with Jo Cartmell in search of Water Voles – or at least signs thereof. As the day warmed, the butterflies and dragonflies became more active, culminating in the opportunity to snap a photo (with merely my mobile phone camera, no less) of this exquisite Common Darter, Sympetrum striolatum, male as it basked on a barbed wire fence along the path.
The Weather Detective
Ever since the remarkable success of the English translation of Peter Wohlleben’s “The Hidden Life of Trees,” it seems that English language publishers have been very busily working their way through his previous writings in search of any others that might meet with similar success in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain. Not to in any way diminsih Herr Wohlleben’s work – I happen to be quite impressed by the way he has brought his fresh, “deeper than deep” ecological ideas into the mainstream reading public.