Martin Goodman
@martingoodman.bsky.social
Writer and publisher. New book is the remarkable story of the Bishnoi, eco-warriors, MY HEAD FOR A TREE. www.martingoodman.com
A Curlew, at Bredon Marshes in Great Yarmouth this morning.
Hundreds of avocets, whimbrels, oystercatchers and redshanks too ... the avocets silvering the air in a swarm of flight.
Hundreds of avocets, whimbrels, oystercatchers and redshanks too ... the avocets silvering the air in a swarm of flight.
September 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A Curlew, at Bredon Marshes in Great Yarmouth this morning.
Hundreds of avocets, whimbrels, oystercatchers and redshanks too ... the avocets silvering the air in a swarm of flight.
Hundreds of avocets, whimbrels, oystercatchers and redshanks too ... the avocets silvering the air in a swarm of flight.
Here's proof! Everything is going to be alright!
As evidence, here's this evening's rainbow over Britain's most easterly point, Lowestoft.
As evidence, here's this evening's rainbow over Britain's most easterly point, Lowestoft.
September 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Here's proof! Everything is going to be alright!
As evidence, here's this evening's rainbow over Britain's most easterly point, Lowestoft.
As evidence, here's this evening's rainbow over Britain's most easterly point, Lowestoft.
My favourite float in today's Lowestoft carnival parade.
The Lowestoft Players and their Jack and the Beanstalk fantasia were good too!
The Lowestoft Players and their Jack and the Beanstalk fantasia were good too!
August 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My favourite float in today's Lowestoft carnival parade.
The Lowestoft Players and their Jack and the Beanstalk fantasia were good too!
The Lowestoft Players and their Jack and the Beanstalk fantasia were good too!
I was excited by today's visitor to our London garden ... a hummingbird hawkmoth.
August 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I was excited by today's visitor to our London garden ... a hummingbird hawkmoth.
I'm getting into the iNaturalist app. Which is helping me to slow down beside flowers and see what might be inside them.
This is a stevenia deceptoria ... a woodlouse fly. Currently THE sighting in East Anglia.
Who knew?
This is a stevenia deceptoria ... a woodlouse fly. Currently THE sighting in East Anglia.
Who knew?
July 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I'm getting into the iNaturalist app. Which is helping me to slow down beside flowers and see what might be inside them.
This is a stevenia deceptoria ... a woodlouse fly. Currently THE sighting in East Anglia.
Who knew?
This is a stevenia deceptoria ... a woodlouse fly. Currently THE sighting in East Anglia.
Who knew?
A beautiful walk around Carlton Marshes ... many butterflies, much birdsong, including this Sedges Warbler singing its heart out
July 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A beautiful walk around Carlton Marshes ... many butterflies, much birdsong, including this Sedges Warbler singing its heart out
Seven swans aswimming ... an unusual North Sea view from our window
June 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Seven swans aswimming ... an unusual North Sea view from our window
Back to our London garden, where this vixen hangs out.
May 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Back to our London garden, where this vixen hangs out.
Meet MY HEAD FOR A TREE in person (it's beautiful!) and hear stories about the Bishnoi, who live the nature-focused life we've forgotten is essential.
Find your community (and me) at the California bookstores on this list.
See you there!
www.bishnoism.org/2025/02/book...
Find your community (and me) at the California bookstores on this list.
See you there!
www.bishnoism.org/2025/02/book...
April 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Meet MY HEAD FOR A TREE in person (it's beautiful!) and hear stories about the Bishnoi, who live the nature-focused life we've forgotten is essential.
Find your community (and me) at the California bookstores on this list.
See you there!
www.bishnoism.org/2025/02/book...
Find your community (and me) at the California bookstores on this list.
See you there!
www.bishnoism.org/2025/02/book...
For National Indexing Day, here's the fine work of Bill Johncocks indexing MY HEAD FOR A TREE for @profilebooks.bsky.social
Here he's dealing with the fact that most Bishnois share a last name.
#indexday
Here he's dealing with the fact that most Bishnois share a last name.
#indexday
March 27, 2025 at 10:54 PM
For National Indexing Day, here's the fine work of Bill Johncocks indexing MY HEAD FOR A TREE for @profilebooks.bsky.social
Here he's dealing with the fact that most Bishnois share a last name.
#indexday
Here he's dealing with the fact that most Bishnois share a last name.
#indexday
A sign of Spring, sculpted into a front garden in Santa Monica.
February 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A sign of Spring, sculpted into a front garden in Santa Monica.
Yesterday brought powerful encounters with a family of four tigers in Ranthambofe National Park. Profoundly moving to be inside a tiger's energy field
February 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Yesterday brought powerful encounters with a family of four tigers in Ranthambofe National Park. Profoundly moving to be inside a tiger's energy field
A walk around Morongo Canyon always cheers me up.
Here is a gathering of white winged doves and an early showing for tonight's moon.
Here is a gathering of white winged doves and an early showing for tonight's moon.
January 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
A walk around Morongo Canyon always cheers me up.
Here is a gathering of white winged doves and an early showing for tonight's moon.
Here is a gathering of white winged doves and an early showing for tonight's moon.
Good morning from Palm Springs ... where every January moment is an advert for Palm Springs
January 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Good morning from Palm Springs ... where every January moment is an advert for Palm Springs
The moon and Venus over Palm Springs (and doubtless elsewhere) just now
January 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The moon and Venus over Palm Springs (and doubtless elsewhere) just now
A coy selfie of me and my new book, MY HEAD FOR A TREE ... in its UK edition, out from @profilebooks.bsky.social next month
December 19, 2024 at 2:52 AM
A coy selfie of me and my new book, MY HEAD FOR A TREE ... in its UK edition, out from @profilebooks.bsky.social next month
A fun sighting in Douglas Park: a black crowned heron with two young visiting the pond.
A jolt of surprise for urban Los Angeles
A jolt of surprise for urban Los Angeles
December 9, 2024 at 10:21 PM
A fun sighting in Douglas Park: a black crowned heron with two young visiting the pond.
A jolt of surprise for urban Los Angeles
A jolt of surprise for urban Los Angeles
Life by the shore just now, pelicans dive-bombing the ocean.
November 29, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Life by the shore just now, pelicans dive-bombing the ocean.
Getting a handle on the changing seasons in Sycamore Canyon, north of Malibu. Autumn is smelling good!
November 27, 2024 at 1:00 AM
Getting a handle on the changing seasons in Sycamore Canyon, north of Malibu. Autumn is smelling good!
I'm back in Los Angeles (Santa Monica to be exact), and finding the lucid hour in a day when my head lifts from the fog of jetlag. Sunshine and palm trees help! So here's my latest substack post. It's free to subscribe ... please join me!
open.substack.com/pub/martingo...
open.substack.com/pub/martingo...
November 22, 2024 at 12:14 AM
I'm back in Los Angeles (Santa Monica to be exact), and finding the lucid hour in a day when my head lifts from the fog of jetlag. Sunshine and palm trees help! So here's my latest substack post. It's free to subscribe ... please join me!
open.substack.com/pub/martingo...
open.substack.com/pub/martingo...
My view on waking.
21C today in Marbella on Spain's Costa del Sol.
Here for a series of environmental conversations at the Marbella Club.
My first time in the town for 55 years!
21C today in Marbella on Spain's Costa del Sol.
Here for a series of environmental conversations at the Marbella Club.
My first time in the town for 55 years!
November 10, 2024 at 1:00 PM
My view on waking.
21C today in Marbella on Spain's Costa del Sol.
Here for a series of environmental conversations at the Marbella Club.
My first time in the town for 55 years!
21C today in Marbella on Spain's Costa del Sol.
Here for a series of environmental conversations at the Marbella Club.
My first time in the town for 55 years!
One walk, between two Pyrenean villages (ours is at the bottom, in the valley) as seen from another.
June 4, 2024 at 1:42 PM
One walk, between two Pyrenean villages (ours is at the bottom, in the valley) as seen from another.
Four years in and I'm no longer disappointed by our 'wildflower meadow' ... our patch of former London lawn.
May 20, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Four years in and I'm no longer disappointed by our 'wildflower meadow' ... our patch of former London lawn.
This ultimate kittiwake experience continues ... someone sharing their top floor flat in Lowestoft with the birds
May 4, 2024 at 6:52 PM
This ultimate kittiwake experience continues ... someone sharing their top floor flat in Lowestoft with the birds
An Easter card I couldn't resist
March 31, 2024 at 9:12 PM
An Easter card I couldn't resist