Nicola Chester

Nature Writer and Activist

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  • Nature Notes

    Felling Sticks Walk. Bird nesting season and they’re chainsawing the wood. And not any old wood (is there such a thing?) but ours. Our wood. And they are not just chainsawing it. They are eating it up and spitting it out in random patterns with enormous forestry machinery that looks apocalyptic: giant grabs, shears and […]

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  • Nature Notes

    Field Signs. I am scraping through wet leaf litter with some friends. We are looking for hazelnuts nibbled in the precise way a dormouse eats them. We know dormice are present locally and hope to make this wood a better habitat for them. Mooching about, our close-looking is rewarded – not by hazelnuts nibbled in […]

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