Nick Baker - Blog
Beautiful Freaks – behind the scenes of the biggest little freak show
To take a very expensive state of the art proto-type camera rig to the dustiest, windiest and hottest (and pretty cold) least camera friendly environments on earth – well you wouldn’t do it would you? Well to be honest when I was asked by the producer/director of ‘Beautiful Freaks’ to suggest a good place to [...]
Chistmas Stocking fillers for the naturalist
It doesn’t have to be a gold plated Robinson Moth Trap, a laminated carbon fibre monocoque butterfly net or indeed a diamond encrusted bat detector for Christmas this year. I’ve been thinking of a few last minute stocking fillers, you know the sorts of small thoughtful gifts that a naturalist would find handy or even [...]
The Well read Naturalist – My top 5 Wildlife books for Christmas
After beasts in all their glorious forms, books follow a close second in things I tend to get passionate about. Throw the two together and I start to quiver with excitement – I can’t help myself! It doesn’t matter how much I try and be professional and grown up about things, on my occasional visits [...]
Confessions of an Ouzel Hunter – part one….. ( first published in Birdwatching Magazine)
Leaving the RSPB’s South West office after my first ever job interview, I felt I had put forward my case reasonably well enough but did the total lack of anything associated with birds on my CV count heavily against me? Well I took a bike ride up to the top of my nearest Tor as [...]