Laurence Rose
@windhovering.bsky.social
Conservationist, writer, naturalist, resting composer. Next book 'Windhover' out 2026.
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And you, Laurence. Look forward to your books coming out next year.
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
And you, Laurence. Look forward to your books coming out next year.
Honoured to be part of the 90th year celebration of my friend, mentor and former colleague John Wilson @rspbengland.bsky.social @rspbleightonmoss.bsky.social last night.
November 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Honoured to be part of the 90th year celebration of my friend, mentor and former colleague John Wilson @rspbengland.bsky.social @rspbleightonmoss.bsky.social last night.
Looking forward to returning to @rspbleedslocalgr.bsky.social on 19th (of November - not October 😉)
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Looking forward to returning to @rspbleedslocalgr.bsky.social on 19th (of November - not October 😉)
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Colonel Morrey Salmons' first birding and photography diary covering 1903-1908 is now online at cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/Sal...
#birds #photography #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #earlyphotography #Cardiff #CardiffHistory #wales #WelshHistory
#birds #photography #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #earlyphotography #Cardiff #CardiffHistory #wales #WelshHistory
October 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Colonel Morrey Salmons' first birding and photography diary covering 1903-1908 is now online at cardiffnaturalists.org.uk/htmfiles/Sal...
#birds #photography #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #earlyphotography #Cardiff #CardiffHistory #wales #WelshHistory
#birds #photography #birdphotography #wildlifephotography #earlyphotography #Cardiff #CardiffHistory #wales #WelshHistory
Looking forward to returning to the excellent #PrestonSociety to speak on Monday 27th October - note change of venue.
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Speaker Events
Upcoming Talks
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October 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Looking forward to returning to the excellent #PrestonSociety to speak on Monday 27th October - note change of venue.
www.prestonsociety.co.uk/speaker-even...
www.prestonsociety.co.uk/speaker-even...
Many congratulations to my friend and colleague @penrhynbirder.bsky.social Well deserved!
Our Dilys Breese Medal winner is Julian Hughes @penrhynbirder.bsky.social! Julian is editor of the Welsh Bird Report, Co-editor of The Birds of Wales and a dedicated birder. Taking part in many BTO surveys he uses his writing skills to regularly share BTO work, including in his BirdNotes column. 📝
October 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Many congratulations to my friend and colleague @penrhynbirder.bsky.social Well deserved!
My photo published in @britishwildlife.bsky.social earlier this year has prompted this carefully considered paper. I wrote about my encounter with this ghost of an extinct species in my book The Long Spring #naturewriting
EARLY VIEW in IBIS
A Neolithic rock engraving apparently showing a Great Auk being captured | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Tim R. Birkhead, Robert Montgomerie | #ornithology 🪶
A Neolithic rock engraving apparently showing a Great Auk being captured | onlinelibrary.wiley....
Tim R. Birkhead, Robert Montgomerie | #ornithology 🪶
September 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My photo published in @britishwildlife.bsky.social earlier this year has prompted this carefully considered paper. I wrote about my encounter with this ghost of an extinct species in my book The Long Spring #naturewriting
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The Door-to-Door Poet, out today, is ‘a funny, self-aware chronicle of the year Rowan McCabe spent in pursuit of a madly brilliant project’, says NARC. magazine. Read more about that project in their interview with Rowan here
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INTERVIEW: Rowan McCabe
Fran Harvey chats to the poet and performer about his book which chronicles his year of taking spoken word to the doorsteps of the UK
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September 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The Door-to-Door Poet, out today, is ‘a funny, self-aware chronicle of the year Rowan McCabe spent in pursuit of a madly brilliant project’, says NARC. magazine. Read more about that project in their interview with Rowan here
narcmagazine.com/interview-ro...
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Looking forward to returning to Leeds RSPB as part of this programme.
A full list of our Indoor Meetings and Coach Trips for the 2025/2026 Season is now available on our website. Please click on the link below for more information! #Leeds
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Photo courtesy of Jonathan (our newsletter and website editor)
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Photo courtesy of Jonathan (our newsletter and website editor)
September 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Looking forward to returning to Leeds RSPB as part of this programme.
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So very proud to have grown up with the RSPB, to have grown my children up with the RSPB & written for it for 21 yrs now. Exciting to see it respond, adapt, embrace, move & change. Birds & nature increasingly bring us together, to shape & connect the world around us. And that needs all of us.
September 10, 2025 at 7:56 AM
So very proud to have grown up with the RSPB, to have grown my children up with the RSPB & written for it for 21 yrs now. Exciting to see it respond, adapt, embrace, move & change. Birds & nature increasingly bring us together, to shape & connect the world around us. And that needs all of us.
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Tomorrow we publish the paperback edition of Flint, Joanne Bourne’s deeply personal love letter to the magical stone that has fuelled three million years of human development. Order it direct from us for the next week and save 30%. Link ⤵️
September 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Tomorrow we publish the paperback edition of Flint, Joanne Bourne’s deeply personal love letter to the magical stone that has fuelled three million years of human development. Order it direct from us for the next week and save 30%. Link ⤵️
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GOOD NEWS: the peat burning ban is being extended in the English uplands. 👏
Peatlands lock up carbon, protect water & support rare wildlife.
We hope today's announcement signals a move to end this damaging practice for good, and thank our supporters for helping make it happen.
Peatlands lock up carbon, protect water & support rare wildlife.
We hope today's announcement signals a move to end this damaging practice for good, and thank our supporters for helping make it happen.
September 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
GOOD NEWS: the peat burning ban is being extended in the English uplands. 👏
Peatlands lock up carbon, protect water & support rare wildlife.
We hope today's announcement signals a move to end this damaging practice for good, and thank our supporters for helping make it happen.
Peatlands lock up carbon, protect water & support rare wildlife.
We hope today's announcement signals a move to end this damaging practice for good, and thank our supporters for helping make it happen.
Lovely recce visit to Bottoms Mill for Saturday's Nature Writing Walk with River Holme Connections. Dippers on the river and a forest in the sky await. www.riverholmeconnections.org/event/nature...
Nature Writing Walk with Laurence Rose - River Holme Connections
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September 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Lovely recce visit to Bottoms Mill for Saturday's Nature Writing Walk with River Holme Connections. Dippers on the river and a forest in the sky await. www.riverholmeconnections.org/event/nature...
So that's Windhover finished and sent off, and ahead of deadline. Stay tuned for publication date, publisher info. etc. #naturewriting
Final editing of the 8th and final draft of the new book before it goes off to the publisher.
#naturewriting #YorkshireOffice
#naturewriting #YorkshireOffice
September 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
So that's Windhover finished and sent off, and ahead of deadline. Stay tuned for publication date, publisher info. etc. #naturewriting
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Happy #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay
Vultures are natures all-important clean-up crew, but in South Asia have hugely declined
Find out how Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction (SAVE) partners are working to fix this 🌏 🪶
RSPB Species Spotlight: tinyurl.com/6mxxucf7
Vultures are natures all-important clean-up crew, but in South Asia have hugely declined
Find out how Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction (SAVE) partners are working to fix this 🌏 🪶
RSPB Species Spotlight: tinyurl.com/6mxxucf7
September 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Happy #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay
Vultures are natures all-important clean-up crew, but in South Asia have hugely declined
Find out how Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction (SAVE) partners are working to fix this 🌏 🪶
RSPB Species Spotlight: tinyurl.com/6mxxucf7
Vultures are natures all-important clean-up crew, but in South Asia have hugely declined
Find out how Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction (SAVE) partners are working to fix this 🌏 🪶
RSPB Species Spotlight: tinyurl.com/6mxxucf7
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The eight members of @gritstonebooks.bsky.social, so far Britain's only author-led publisher, pose here at #Beverley Bookshop, a fine indy #bookshop, before heading off for our Awayday #coop meeting. @cumbriapr.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The eight members of @gritstonebooks.bsky.social, so far Britain's only author-led publisher, pose here at #Beverley Bookshop, a fine indy #bookshop, before heading off for our Awayday #coop meeting. @cumbriapr.bsky.social @windhovering.bsky.social @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social
Final editing of the 8th and final draft of the new book before it goes off to the publisher.
#naturewriting #YorkshireOffice
#naturewriting #YorkshireOffice
August 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Final editing of the 8th and final draft of the new book before it goes off to the publisher.
#naturewriting #YorkshireOffice
#naturewriting #YorkshireOffice
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Nice to see my new book The Borders- The Lands We Share on the shelves in @samreadbookseller.bsky.social in Grasmere. Support #indybookshops! @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Nice to see my new book The Borders- The Lands We Share on the shelves in @samreadbookseller.bsky.social in Grasmere. Support #indybookshops! @gritstonebooks.bsky.social @cumbriapr.bsky.social
Congratulations to my former @rspbengland.bsky.social colleague Matt Howard. I thoroughly recommend Broadlands.
The WINNERS of the 2025 ASLE-UKI BOOK PRIZE are:
William Henry Searle, 'Elowen' - Creative Prose
Matt Howard, 'Broadlands' - Poetry
Joanna Allan, 'Saharan Winds' - Critical
Many congratulations!
William Henry Searle, 'Elowen' - Creative Prose
Matt Howard, 'Broadlands' - Poetry
Joanna Allan, 'Saharan Winds' - Critical
Many congratulations!
August 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Congratulations to my former @rspbengland.bsky.social colleague Matt Howard. I thoroughly recommend Broadlands.
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Arresting the poets are we? Not a good look.
August 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Arresting the poets are we? Not a good look.
Congratulations to @bsbicountries.bsky.social James Harding-Morris on publication day. Got it, read it already! (Well I was writing a cover endorsement for it, tbh). Really important that we recognise the 700+(!) UK endemic species as a special responsibility. #naturewriting
It’s the big day! After four years of research, writing and editing (and procrastination, terror and imposter syndrome), Endemic has now been released to the world.
August 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Congratulations to @bsbicountries.bsky.social James Harding-Morris on publication day. Got it, read it already! (Well I was writing a cover endorsement for it, tbh). Really important that we recognise the 700+(!) UK endemic species as a special responsibility. #naturewriting
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An excellent review. The first I’ve seen to appreciate that this book has a clear agenda from the outset. Most readers have fallen for the ‘fair and balanced’ line in the blurb. Not Sam Hackney:
www.britishwildlife.com/uncommon-gro...
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Uncommon Ground - British Wildlife
Uncommon Ground Patrick Galbraith Uncommon Ground by Patrick Galbraith is a punchy and well-written ‘establishment’ take on the enduring discourse surrounding the public’s right to access the countrys...
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August 1, 2025 at 6:23 AM
An excellent review. The first I’ve seen to appreciate that this book has a clear agenda from the outset. Most readers have fallen for the ‘fair and balanced’ line in the blurb. Not Sam Hackney:
www.britishwildlife.com/uncommon-gro...
www.britishwildlife.com/uncommon-gro...
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This feels like the perfect post to reply to and announce this - but my book, Endemic: Exploring the wildlife unique to Britain, which includes a chapter on the No Parking Whitebeam, comes out a week today.
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July 31, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This feels like the perfect post to reply to and announce this - but my book, Endemic: Exploring the wildlife unique to Britain, which includes a chapter on the No Parking Whitebeam, comes out a week today.
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In September we publish The Door-to-Door Poet, RowanMcCabe’s joyful and thoughtful portrayal of his unusual mission to write verse for strangers. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/yHchl
July 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
In September we publish The Door-to-Door Poet, RowanMcCabe’s joyful and thoughtful portrayal of his unusual mission to write verse for strangers. Pre-order it online from Waterstones using the code SUMMER25 and you get 25% off shorturl.at/yHchl