Saving Species on Radio 4

Added on 29 January 2013

Two interviews I recorded last year are currently scheduled for the BBC Radio 4 series Saving Species. The programme on Tuesday 5th February will feature an interview in Iceland about arctic foxes, recorded whilst we watched a gorgeous semi-tame but wild arctic fox cub that had befriended a local d...

Highlights of 2012

Added on 21 September 2012

Already 2012 has been a great year. We began it with a visit to the Falkland Islands (see Tristan da Cunha cruise below), then in April we briefly visited the wonderful Bandia Wildlife Reserve near Dakar in Senegal before spending three days on the Cape Verde islands, where we got to know some of t...

Latest cruises announced

Added on 01 September 2012

We are coming to the end of another busy year of cruising, with a lecturing trip for me (without Sue) to Barbados, Grenada, St Lucia and Antigua in the Caribbean in November. Although many companies are cutting down on their lecture bookings so they can sell the extra cabins instead, we have some g...

Wild Flowers Mini-Guide

Added on 10 July 2012

To complement my Scottish Wild Flowers book, Birlinn Ltd has now published a smaller 'Mini Guide to Scottish Wild Flowers'. This is a stripped-down, 200-page version of the original guide, covering the commonest Scottish species but in rather less detail, and with fewer features. It's i...