Nature is sort of my go-to passtime. I love spending time in nature, by myself.
Since I'm UK-based, this year I visited places like Abernethy Forest and the Isle of Mull to wild-camp.
My favourite bird? The white-tailed eagle descended on Loch na Keal meters from me in July as it snatched a fish. It's eye, its bill, it's stare at me.
My favourite plant? Glowing pink in the cathedral gloom of its dense forest, one lonely red helleborine in the Chilterns in a storm of rain.
My favourite mushroom? Regal and satanic all at once, dressed up like Professor Woland come to real life, the Devil's bolete in the New Forest. A whole cluster of them. Beautiful and deadly.
Who else enjoys this sort of thing?
