There’s a moment — if you’ve spent any time outside with your eyes actually open — when something clicks. A flash of colour in the undergrowth. A call you half-recognise but can’t quite name. A track in the mud that makes you stop and crouch down for a closer look.

That moment is what Wild Nerding is about.

What’s a Nerding, exactly?

A Nerding is what I call a proper deep-dive into the natural world. Not just a walk with a camera — though there’s plenty of that — but the bit that comes after: the research rabbit hole, the field guide cross-referencing at 11pm, the excited message to a friend who probably didn’t need the three-paragraph explainer on lichen identification but got one anyway.

Every post here is a Nerding. A record of something spotted, something learned, something worth sharing.

Why this site?

I’ve been keeping notes for years — scrappy field journals, phone camera rolls full of blurry insects, voice memos recorded while crouching in marshland. This site is where all of that gets a proper home. Organised. Written up. Shared.

If you’re the kind of person who has ever paused a walk to identify a bird call, wondered what’s living under a rotting log, or felt genuinely thrilled by a fungi find — you’re going to fit right in here.

Welcome to the Nerdings. Let’s get wild. 🌿