Nicola’s and my birthdays are close together in January and so we often have a few days away at this time of year. This year we visited the New Forest, I think for the fourth time now. It really is a fantastic place and I would recommend a visit to anyone. The weather was dry […]
Nicola, Willow and I went for a walk around King’s Wood today. The weather was great and the wood was almost entirely free of other people. We spent a good 4 hours wandering around and saw a lots of sign. We also got a really good view of a green woodpecker tapping away. Spotted loads of deer […]
Our Tracking & Nature Awareness course at the weekend was great fun. On the Sunday we went to King’s Wood. It’s between Canterbury and Ashford and is about 1,500 acres. There is a wide variety of habitats within the wood, from sweet chestnut coppice, conifer plantation, beech wood to mixed broadleaf. As you would expect, […]
As I was taking a few bits into the camp this morning getting ready for the birthday party, I took this snap of the view from the camp It’s taken from just outside the gate and looking down the field and across the valley. Not a soul in site or any sign of buildings, roads […]
As someone who is passionate about wildlife in general, and British wildlife in particular, I instinctively find the pilot badger culls in Somerset and Gloucestershire to be abhorrent. At the same time, if you’ve been on one of our bushcraft courses, you’ll know that the magnificent ancient woodland we use is part of a farm, […]
We’re delighted about this fantastic article in BBC Wildlife Magazine. Summer 2013, Volume 31 Number 8. The article was written by Carol Donaldson after she attended our ‘Tracking & Nature Awareness’ course in April 2013. We all really enjoyed the course, a great group of people attended. If you’d like to learn some of these […]
