For ten years, I believe, Stuart Dunlop has been taking his keen eye, his good camera, and his great curiosity about nature into the wild spaces of Donegal, recording the flora and fauna with scientific precision and a graceful writer's descriptive touches. I have admired his Donegal Wildlife blog for a long time, not least of all for the care he lavishes on photographing tiny plants and insects that often turn out to be astonishing to see up close.