New Year Trip to the foothills of the Pyrenees and the Gard
Why Blog? Before I detail my observations from this trip, I think it would be best to elaborate on why I wanted to start this blog. I have several reasons, which I will list shortly, but thought that I should shout out Thomas Miller’s post about winter geese on his Birding Blog - posted in late December – which kick-started this endeavour. I was always under the impression that blog-writing (or, alternatively vlogging) was something of an egotistical pursuit, and the resulting blogs were frequently dry, but in reading Thomas’s last entry, such fears were dispelled. Thomas’s recent blog post: https://tmbirding.blogspot.com/2025/12/patch-geese.html My own reasons for beginning this blog are also assumptions about what the process of writing this often will do for me. Firstly, I’m hoping that this blog may help improve my quality of writing. This year I have been writing a lot of job applications, and I have often found myself struggling to find the correct word to use or writing i...