BLOGS by guest authors – Page 6

Guest blog – Short walks along streets that flood (and roads not taken) by Jenny Shepherd

Mark March 15, 2025March 31, 2026 Comments Off

Ban the Burn rep to the Stronger Together to Stop Calderdale WIndfarm campaign group. On behalf of the group, named creator of the Parliamentary Petition, Ban WIndfarms on Protected Peatland in England – click here . Tend to carry a Grandmothers Against Bullshit placard – covers so much in so few words. Short walks along…

Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 57 by Nick MacKinnon

Mark March 13, 2025March 31, 2026 Comments Off

Nick MacKinnon is a freelance teacher of Maths, English and Medieval History, and lives above Haworth, in the last inhabited house before Top Withens = Wuthering Heights. In 1992 he founded the successful Campaign to Save Radio 4 Long Wave while in plaster following a rock-climbing accident on Skye. His poem ‘The metric system’ won…

Guest blog – Newts and Housing by Barry Kemp

Mark February 15, 2025March 28, 2026 6 Comments

I am recently retired but have spent the last 20 years working as an ecologist, primarily in the conservation of our native reptile and amphibian species. During this time I had to deal with many housing developers and the message I and other ecologists were always trying to get across was that our biodiversity was…

Guest blog – North Island by David Higgins

Mark January 31, 2025March 30, 2025 4 Comments

David Higgins works in conservation. He has lived and worked in the Falkland Islands, St Helena Island, India, The Skerries, the Yorkshire Dales, the North Pennines and now the Wiltshire Wildlife Trust. He loves islands especially seabird colonies, where he enjoys his main passion of wildlife photography. Filmed at 120 frames per second I…

New petition about windfarms on peat soils

Mark January 27, 2025March 31, 2026 1 Comment

Press release from ‘Stronger together to stop Calderdale Wind Farm’: PARLIAMENTARY PETITION LAUNCHED TODAY CALLS FOR A BAN ON BUILDING WIND FARMS ON PROTECTED PEATLAND Today sees the launch of a petition that calls on Parliament to amend onshore wind planning regulations by banning wind farms on protected peatland in England. 100,000 signatures will…

Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 53 by John Page.

Mark January 17, 2025March 31, 2026 Comments Off

John Page was born in the West Riding, a proud Yorkshireman and was taught to play cricket left-handed “ ’cos it flummoxes t’ bowler, and buggers up t’ field.” He went to university in London and Leeds, and enjoyed (most of the time) attempting to teach young people that there’s a big wide world beyond…

Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 37 by Nick MacKinnon

Mark January 2, 2025March 31, 2026 1 Comment

Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 16 by John Page

Mark December 20, 2024March 31, 2026 1 Comment

John Page was born in the West Riding, a proud Yorkshireman and was taught to play cricket left-handed “’cos it flummoxes t’ bowler, and buggers up t’ field.” He went to university in London and Leeds, and enjoyed (most of the time) attempting to teach young people that there’s a big wide world beyond the…

Guest blog – Walshaw Turbine 21 by Nick MacKinnon

Mark December 5, 2024March 31, 2026 7 Comments

Stephen Moss’s 2024 Round-up of Nature Books

Mark November 30, 2024March 28, 2026 Comments Off

Stephen Moss is an author and naturalist based in Somerset. Having retired from running the MA Nature and Travel Writing at Bath Spa University he is now a Visiting Research Fellow there. Stephen’s latest books are the 2023 Wainwright-Prize-shortlisted Ten Birds that Changed the World (Guardian Faber) and The Starling: a Biography (Square Peg), the…