Urban Coutryman
Ramblings of a sportsman & naturalist
A thousand acres of sky
May 21, 2024 3:25 pm Leave your thoughtsA thin line in the distant winter sky catches my eye, like an unsteady pen stroke, but one that instinctivelyRead more
Author Archives for UrbanAndy
About UrbanAndy
Andy Roberts is a countryman and field sports enthusiast with an interest in nature friendly farming. He is most content when exploring the fields, woods, estuaries, rivers and lakes with a dog at his side for company. Andy is vice-chair of the Wild Carp Trust conservation charity.
First goose
August 26, 2023 11:57 am Leave your thoughtsUnder speckled starlight we busily got to work setting homemade silhouette decoys into the short, grazed marshland. I took instructionsRead more
Secrets of Galloway
January 30, 2023 9:22 am Leave your thoughts“We call this dead man’s hole” Kerr shouts over my shoulder against the repeating thump of the quad bike engine.Read more
To the waters and the wild
April 6, 2022 8:21 am Leave your thoughtsThe southerly gale gained in bravado as it blew through the open lands in lee of the Sheeffry hills toRead more
A sense of November
December 9, 2021 9:37 am Leave your thoughtsUnrelenting northerly winds send temperatures plummeting, from highland to lowland, across mountains and meadows. And the grove of deciduous treesRead more
The last flight
December 1, 2021 8:56 am Leave your thoughtsI hear them long before I see them, their sporadic calls scythe through the gusting southerly wind and send meRead more
