Mark Cocker: A Guided Nature Walk

A wonderful opportunity to walk with the highly acclaimed naturalist, author and Guardian columnist Mark Cocker. Mark will highlight hidden parts of Mousley Bottom and show you an array of plants, insects and birds on his guided walk ‘From Landfill to Nature Reserve’.

Spaces are limited. There are two walks 10am-12pm and 2-4pm. Walks start at Mousley Bottom (full address given with ticket purchase).

The walk will take around two hours. Please note these walks are not suitable for dogs – apart from assistance dogs.

Tickets: £20 per person:

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/newmillsfestival/guided-nature-walk-with-mark-cocker/e-dejvqb

About Mark Cocker

MARK COCKER is a multi-award-winning author of creative non-fiction, a naturalist and a writing tutor. He writes or broadcasts on nature in a variety of national media. He reviews for the New Statesman and the Spectator. In 2024 he began his 37th continuous year as a country diarist for The Guardian and Guardian Weekly and has now written well over 1,000 articles for both papers.

His 13 books, covering works of biography, history, literary criticism and memoir, include Loneliness and Time (1992), Birders: Tales of a Tribe (2001), and Birds Britannica (2005). His environmental history Our Place (Cape, 2018) was shortlisted for the Thwaites Wainwright and the Richard Jefferies Prizes. The longest and most arduous of his projects, Birds and People (Cape, 2013), was published to international acclaim and was a collaboration with the photographer David Tipling. Between them his last four works have been shortlisted for nine awards. Crow Country was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize (2008) and won the New Angle Prize in 2009, while A Claxton Diary won the East Anglian Book of the Year Award (2019). Last year he published his most ambitious book One Midsummer’s Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth (Cape), which comes out in paperback in June 2024. It was recently shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Prize.