David Bradley's Nature Matters

A prepper is a person actively preparing for future emergencies or disasters by stockpiling non-perishable goods and water, batteries, tools, weapons even, learning appropriate skills and basically making plans to ensure their safety and self-reliance when

As you get older, you might notice that it’s harder to have a decent conversation in a noisy room, especially if there’s background music playing.

I’ve been writing about science since the late 1980s.

A desire path is an unofficial route, or trail, worn into the ground by the repeated passage of people or animals.

I think most of us in the world of nature observation have tales to tell of dodgy identifications from the various apps.

It’s 7th October, it’s persisting down…last night’s mothing session wasn’t too bad, but things are gradually tailing off, even the Lunar Underwings seem to have had their day this year with just one specimen last night after a peak of more than a dozen a…

I had a fragment of a song I started to write recorded on my phone quite some time ago.

I got a tipoff about Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus) on a lucerne/alfalfa and clover field in Aldreth a couple of days ago.

A week in September in Port de Sóller, Mallorca (15th-21st), for sun, sea, mountain-trail hiking, and more.

Clif is so big they won’t fit in the frame… This is the enormous Clifden Nonpareil moth, Catocala fraxini, wingspan is about 75-95mm, this one was probably 85-90mm.

At this time of year, the moth trap starts to change character.

There is something comforting/disconcerting [del. as applic.] about looking up at the stars and planets in the night sky, the wonder of the crescent moon, the Milky Way, the firmament…the vastness of all that eternity out there.

One of the most striking things in the annual garden moth-trap data is the rises and falls, and then the big surge, of the Large Yellow Underwing, Noctua pronuba.

There comes a point in any long-running biological recording project when “new” becomes a rather more interesting word.

There was a shiny moth sitting on the sheet behind the trap last night when we returned from our evening’s entertainment.

ObsIdentify and similar nature ID apps can be frustratingly flaky.

The UK has five owl species that are well known and often encountered, but seeing any of them depends on where you live and perhaps knowing how and where to look.

As the years go by, each mothing season gets perhaps more samey.

Some time ago, I used some music tools to reimagine 30 of my old songs.

I’ve been in the business a long time…since the 80s…would you believe?