The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy (33 page)

I must also thank Andrew Gordon and Roland Philipps, both of whom immediately saw the point, and made this book possible; and finally, as for what concerns myself, my thanks to Andrea Sabbadini and to Radhe Bentley, who effected the repairs, and to Jo Revill, who gave me the new beginning thereafter, are everlasting.

The author and publisher would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce copyright material: ‘The Recovery’ by Edmund Blunden, from
Selected Poems
(ed. Robyn Marsack,
1982), reproduced by permission of Carcanet Press Limited; extract from ‘A New Song’ by Seamus Heaney from
New Selected Poems 1966–1987
(2002), published by Faber and Faber Ltd; extract from ‘Coming’ by Philip Larkin from
Collected Poems
(2003), published by Faber and Faber Ltd; extracts from ‘The Hare’ and ‘All That’s Past’ by Walter de la Mare from
The Complete Poems of Walter de la Mare
(1971), reproduced by permission of The Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare and The Society of Authors as their representative; extract from ‘Prologue’ by Dylan Thomas, from
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The New Centenary Edition
(2014), published by Orion, reproduced by permission of David Higham Associates.

Index

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Ablett, Gordon (author’s uncle),
2
,
4
,
10
,
34
,
225
,
230

Ablett, Mary (
née
Day; author’s aunt),
2–4
,
9–10
,
34
,
230

and sister Norah’s death,
225

Adams, Douglas,
199

Adams, Richard:
Watership Down
,
137

Adonis blue (butterfly),
167

Aethelstan, King of the English,
40

agriculture
see
farming

Agriculture Act (1947),
99

alien big cats (ABCs),
205

Allee effect,
112

Alonissos (Greek island),
196

Alps,
44

Amazon, river,
171–2

Anders, William,
17–18

Anthropocene period (geological),
65

Apollo 8 (spacecraft),
18

Armstrong, Neil,
27
,
134
,
204

art,
156

Asian brown tree snake,
239

Attlee, Clement,
90

Audubon, John James,
38

baiji (freshwater dolphin),
71
,
87
,
178

Baines, Chris,
102–3

Baird, John Logie,
22–3

Baker, Helen,
111
,
118–21

Bazalgette, Sir Joseph,
182
,
188

Beatles, The (pop group),
54

beauty,
156–60
,
162
,
169

Benét, Stephen Vincent,
40

Benson, Miss S. Vere,
37

Bible, Holy: on moths,
100

Bigfoot (rumoured animal),
205

bioluminescence (phosphorescence),
212–13

Bird Lover’s League,
37

BirdLife International,
69

birds

author’s interest in,
34–5
,
42
,
49–50

colour,
162–3

dawn chorus,
202–3

effect of modern farming on,
92–4

illustrated books on,
37–40

migratory,
50–1
,
69–70

records and surveys,
97

of seashore,
49–50
,
52–3
,
66–7

species decline and extinction,
73
,
84
,
98–9

Birds Korea (organisation),
78
,
219

birdsong,
28–9
,
153

Birkenhead,
40–1

Birkhead, Tim,
116

Birmingham Wildlife Trust,
102

blackbird,
203

blackthorn,
149–51

Blean Woods, Kent,
236

blossom,
147–51
,
153

blue (colour),
160
,
163–70
,
193
,
208

bluebells,
159–60
,
163
,
167
,
169

bluefin tuna,
17

Blunden, Edmund

‘The Recovery’ (poem),
217–18

Undertones of War
,
219

Blunden, Margi,
219

bonobo (pygmy chimpanzee),
206

Borman, Frank,
18

Brazil,
191–3

Breeding Bird Survey,
97

brimstone (butterfly),
133
,
135–6

Britain

Geological Survey,
173

modern farming methods,
89–91

wildlife losses,
87–9
,
96–100
,
106

wildlife surveys and censuses,
97–8

British Ornithological Union,
38

British Trust for Ornithology,
110–11

cuckoo project,
141–4
,
146

Brooke Bond (company),
36

brown hairstreak (butterfly),
236–7

brown trout (
Salmo trutta
),
175–6

Brunanburh, Battle of (937),
40

Brundtland, Gro Harlem,
21

buddleia (bush),
4–5
,
13
,
210

Butcher, Greg,
162

Butser Hill, Hampshire,
232–3

butterflies

allure,
5
,
7–9
,
189–90
,
193–4
,
210–11
,
231

blue,
167

decline and extinctions in Britain,
98–9

first appearance in year,
133

and moths,
101

search for all British species,
232–4
,
236–7

valued,
28

Butterfly Conservation (BC; charity),
101
,
104
,
208
,
232
,
235
,
237

Candlemas,
132–3

Carroll, Lewis:
Alice in Wonderland
,
137

Carson, Rachel:
Silent Spring
,
93

Carwardine, Mark,
199–200
,
212

Catullus,
107
,
116

chalk: landscapes and streams,
173–8

Chauvet (cave, France),
7

chequered skipper (butterfly),
234

Chess, river, Chilterns,
176

Chester,
40

China

effect on nature and environment,
70–2
,
80
,
87
,
105

river pollution,
178

Christmas
see
winter solstice

Clifden nonpareil (moth; blue underwing;
Catocala fraxini
),
101
,
207–9

Clifton-Dey, Darryl,
187

climate change,
240

clouded yellow (butterfly),
236–8

colour,
155–6
,
160–3
,
167–9

Colum, Pádraic,
1

Common Agricultural Policy (European),
95

Common Bird Census,
97

common blue (butterfly),
167

Congo (Congo-Brazzaville),
144

Congo (Democratic Republic of),
144
,
244

Conrad, Joseph,
28

conservation,
188
,
242–5

Conservation of Wild Creatures and Wild Plants Act (1975),
96

Costanza, Robert,
26

corn bunting,
100

cornflower,
164–5

cryptozoology,
205

Cuba crisis (1962),
54

cuckoo: movements tracked,
141–7

curlew,
50
,
53
,
85

far eastern,
83–4

Daily, Gretchen (ed.):
Nature’s Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems
,
24–5

Daily Mirror
,
191–2

Darwin, Charles

on natural selection,
58

On the Origin of Species
,
46

David, Père,
4

dawn chorus,
202–3
,
216

DDT (pesticide),
93

Dee, river and estuary,
40–2
,
49–52
,
54–5
,
65–6
,
69
,
75–7

Dee Crossing and Reservoir Scheme,
76

deforestation,
71

de la Mare, Walter,
137
,
202

Deng Xiaoping,
70

Deraniyagala’s beaked whale
see
whales, Deraniyagala’s beaked

Dickinson, Emily,
166

dinosaurs: extinction,
64

Doig, Russell,
185

dolphins,
196–200
,
203
,
216

bioluminescent,
212–13

see also
baiji

Dowling, Miss (teacher),
3

Driscoll, Melanie,
205

Duke of Burgundy (butterfly),
232–3

Earth Centre, near Doncaster,
245

Earthrise
(photograph),
18
,
63

East Asia/Australasia Flyway (EAAF),
69
,
73