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Mike Copland
- Oct 26, 2022
- 2 min
Nature: the part each of us can play
First, a quick reminder of our Water Vole Celebration meeting on 3rd November. Details on our Meetup site here. It’s a busy time for...
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Mike Copland
- Sep 30, 2022
- 2 min
We’re celebrating Ratty’s Return
Join us on Thursday 3rd November to celebrate the return of water voles to Cookham’s waterways. The WildCookham project undertaken over...
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Mike Copland
- Jul 26, 2022
- 2 min
Get the Buzz!
August and high summer is insect time – the time for us to get to know more about the amazing array of insect life around Cookham. The...
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Mike Copland
- Jun 29, 2022
- 2 min
Let’s hear it for ….
Joining a botanical walk on Pinkneys Green recently brought home how it’s not just the obvious ‘pretty flower’ pollinators that are...
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Mike Copland
- May 26, 2022
- 2 min
A Cookham Pastoral
The seasons of life come to us all, and so it is in our wonderful Cookham countryside. March gave us early foliage on trees such as Ash...
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Mike Copland
- Mar 19, 2022
- 2 min
What is Nature for?
The BBC Radio 4 programme ‘The Moral Maze’ recently posed this question. It’s Genesis, the first book in the Bible, that tells us that...
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Mike Copland
- Mar 7, 2022
- 2 min
Springtime: are you buzzing?
Spring is with us as, once again, nature shows its power over everything that we humans mess up. And WildCookham is continuing in its...
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Mike Copland
- Aug 30, 2021
- 2 min
Here’s a way you can give Nature a chance
So now we know. The latest Climate Change report states that we’re very likely to hit 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial temperatures in...
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Mike Copland
- Jul 31, 2021
- 2 min
Nature a la Carte
So we’ve had the aperitif and the starter, the initial burst of Spring followed by the excitement of life breaking out across our natural...
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Mike Copland
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
Fixing the roof before the world caves in
I had to go up into the roof of our house the other day. It’s an old building and up there I had a fresh look at the timbers used to...
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Mike Copland
- Oct 1, 2020
- 2 min
The Wealth of Wildlife
It’s difficult to avoid the news about biodiversity loss and the destruction of the habitats on which our wildlife depends. We are right...
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Mike Copland
- Aug 27, 2020
- 2 min
Standing and staring
Among all the bad things that the Corona virus has brought us, it has resulted in people spending more time in our local countryside. The...
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Mike Copland
- Jun 28, 2020
- 1 min
Free Lunch, anyone?
There’s no such thing as a free lunch. A truism that we are coming to understand as we humans realise the environmental and climate costs...
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Mike Copland
- Mar 24, 2020
- 2 min
Who matters?
(This post for the April edition of 'The Parishioner' was written before the full unfolding of the Covid19 crisis. Information about...
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Mike Copland
- Feb 29, 2020
- 2 min
Every Little Helps
Every Little Helps – to borrow a phrase from one or more of our supermarket chains. It certainly works with our wildlife. And Cookham...
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Mike Copland
- Jan 19, 2020
- 2 min
Let’s Be Optimistic
New Year and a new decade – so let’s be optimistic. For lovers of wildlife here in Cookham there is much that may concern us.
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Mike Copland
- Jan 4, 2020
- 2 min
December 2019: Make a Gift for Nature
With New Year resolutions in the air here are a few ideas for gifts to our natural world.
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