Tag Archives: coronavirus
Don’t Write Off the Bat
It was a perfect evening for a spin in the Batmobile with a team of three amateur chiroptologists. The air was warm and still when the sun went down. After leaving the carpark, we were overtaken by every vehicle along … Continue reading
Posted in Nature
Tagged ACE-2, Batmobile, Big brown bat, Chiroptera, coronavirus, COVID-19, Red bat, SonoBat, White-nose syndrome
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There’ll Be Bluebirds Over
The American composer of “There’ll be Bluebirds over the White Cliffs of Dover” either had the excuse of poetic license or didn’t know that bluebirds are absent from the British Isles. But the song became one of one of Dame … Continue reading
Posted in Birding, garden, Nature
Tagged Bird eggs, Bluebird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, coronavirus, nestbox, Vera Lynn, Virginia Bluebird Society
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Pepysing back at the 1665-66 plague of London
I aimed for a weekly post about the health of the natural world, but here I am dwelling on coronavirus again. Is anyone undistracted by this pandemic? This time I dusted off my copies of Samuel Pepys diaries in which … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Health, History
Tagged Black Death, coronavirus, COVID-19, Eyam church, Great fire, London, plague, Samuel Pepys
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Latent impact of COVID-19 in pregnancy?
There was a time when the womb was regarded as a pristine environment for a ‘fetonaut’ to travel safely for 9 months until birth, protected by a shield-like placenta. No longer. The effects of smoking, thalidomide and binge drinking show … Continue reading
Posted in Health
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, flu pandemic, Great Recession
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A Day in Dharavi
That day slept in deep memory until Dharavi appeared in news reports about the threat of COVID-19. It wasn’t a Westerner’s curiosity about the plight of poor people that brought me in 2003 after an engagement in Mumbai; it was … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Memoir
Tagged coronavirus, COVID-19, dengue fever, Dharavi slum, Mumbai, rickshaw
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Roger musing about Peace with Nature 