🎵 🎧 Listen to Stornoway's nature-inspired playlist here: open.spotify.com/playlist/7Idat…

🌳 Find a wood to explore this weekend here: woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting-woods…

A new reworking of Stornoway's Excelsior by me and Ed Nesbit. Recorded in the UCLA Alpert studio and the Gower! Piano by the wonderful Sydney Wang

What did you see, hear, and get up to, on your adventures outside this week?

Here is a snippet from Brian’s Dawn Chorus Walk, recorded last year for #InternationalDawnChorusDay (set to a selection of snaps from various nature trails... prizes if you can guess the any of them)!

Huge thanks to Stornoway's Brian Briggs, Paul Henry, Literature Wales, Dan Tyte, kathryn williams (on tour now with Withered Hand as Wilson Williams), Arvon, BBC Maestro and all my fellow course participants, especially Ellen and Josh! xx

Had the very BEST time visiting BE+DE+NE 🥰 from hackisack adventures to sky-high swings, THANK YOU 🙏

Next up,
5/18 @woodfestival
5/31 Wychwood Festival
6/28 Glastonbury Festival
7/12 lovetrailsfestival
7/13 ALSO
8/18 Beautiful Days
8/25 Greenbelt Festival

After these days of emotional turmoil I wasn’t sure if I was in the right mindset for new music. But Stornoway was just so entertaining, I loved their heartwarming music, especially the acoustic set, and, “uh, wrong bird”, their wonderful quirky Britishness. Come back soon!

The Great Skuas (Bonxie) are back on Fair Isle Bird Obs and what amazing birds they are! Can’t wait to be spending the season with them. Let’s hope for a successful breeding season. Also lots of Snipe around will be on nests soon! #heaven

Some clips from our first visit to #amsterdam since London Calling 2015 — what a fantastic crowd and welcoming atmosphere #BEDANKT

… now after a delightful coffee stop at The Tea Lab in #rotterdam , it’s next stop #brussels 🤘

RGM’s sublime Mountains Of The Mind was what inspired ALL my bass parts on #DigTheMountain . (Especially during studio takes of The Navigator — which explains how we sometimes need to be led forward, through adversity, by pioneering heroes like Mallory. Our “Mallory” in the album…

Brian’s lyrics are often #conservation -themed; this comes from having studied & practiced habitat management, from guillemots to great tits, from Welsh wetlands to the Wytham Woods (whose beeches featured in our video for “It’s Not Up To You”)… this article has the full story!

#TrailDance comes to #hoofddorp ! Feeling #Blessed to have found this ridiculously picturesque nature trail just a few minutes down the tram way from our #holidayinn . Horses, kestrels, a 20ft high hikers path…

#tourlife with @stornowayband means a #10km every morning, with as…

🌍Celebrate #EarthDay with inspiring alumni working to safeguard our plant 💚

🦁 Lion ecologist Dr Moreangels Mbizah
♻️ Sustainability charity leader, Ben Tuppen
🥻 Sustainable fashion Zainab Mahmood
🦅 Conservationist Brian Briggs Stornoway

Interviews: ➡️ bit.ly/QUADEarthDay