The Cuckoo Calls the Year Scottish Natural Heritage and heading off into the

and heading off into the unknown

that you need expensive gear – he beaches plenty of big bass yet is a tackle skinflint

wood and farm in search of rabbits

It is also about death

The Cuckoo Calls the Year Scottish Natural Heritage and heading off into theAfter working as a botanist and natural historian for more than 25 years, walking the countryside had almost imperceptibly turned into a disheartening endeavour for Pete Stroh. He found himself resting at viewpoints and contemplating how much better it would be if a pasture had not been drenched with herbicide, if a woodland had not been planted up with regimented lines of conifer crops, if an arable field could every so often not be ploughed right up