Showing up alone to something new is its own kind of hard. Here's exactly what happens at a Bird Walk, who else shows up, and what you actually need to bring — spoiler: not much.

September is when things shift — summer residents start leaving, migrants pass through on their way south, and Collserola fills with raptors you won't see the rest of the year. Here's where to look, and what you might actually spot.

I've been sitting on this one for a while: Here Aware is relaunching as Here Aware Nature Club. Here's the story of how birdwatching and art ended up in the same community, and what's changing (and what isn't).

You don't need binoculars to come to a Bird Walk. But if you're ready to buy a pair, here's what the numbers on the box actually mean, and five real Barcelona shops to buy from.

Whether you’re a complete beginner or just starting to take birdwatching more seriously, joining a guided walk can make a huge difference. The right experience doesn’t just help you spot more birds, it teaches you how to notice them.

Mindfulness doesn’t start with silence or perfection, it starts with noticing. The rhythm of your breath, the warmth in your hands, the sound of a bird calling in the distance. When you bring awareness to these small moments, something shifts. You’re no longer trying to control the experience. You’re learning to be in it.

Today the community reached 200 members. Not all of them will show up and I've been sitting with what that means. There's something worth noticing in the act of signing up at all.

Holding responsibility in multiple directions requires more than skill. It asks for capacity, support, and permission to notice when something needs care. Today, the phrase psychological safety came up at work. Not as something new, but as something many of us already recognize, felt quietly, often in the body, before it has words.

I thought I was already walking mindfully. Turns out, my version of “slow” still had somewhere to go. When different nervous systems met different paces, the walk became less about birds and more about relationship… to speed, to space, to choice. No one was wrong. No one needed fixing.

Reiki, as I practise it, is very simple. It’s a way of being present with another person through touch, stillness, and attention. I don’t experience it as something I do to someone, but as creating the conditions for rest and awareness to happen on their own.

The novelty belonged to the setting, not to the attention. Awe didn’t need the newness. It arrived the same way it always does, when I slowed down enough to notice.