Goater

Although he would modestly deny it, Barry Goater was the instigator of an extraordinary educational experiment.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Having lost touch since schooldays, I had written to Barry Goater from the farm of the Essex lepidopterists, by the wood at Little Horkesley.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

The sudden reference to Goater alerted me to take a closer look at one of the books, British Pyralid Moths.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Out with Barry Goater watching tiny flies struggling in the clutches of the science-fiction sundew plants on Dyke Heath, we also clocked two new birds to add to the ninety species already listed in the log: a pair of hobbies, the male perched on a stump, and a spotted flycatcher.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Barry Goater was unfailing in his insistence that close observation, often involving hours of patient counting and recording, was the foundation of all good science and truly original discovery.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

I remember feeling whining poetry was somehow subversive of the objective, scientific approach Goater encouraged us to adopt.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Having lost touch since schooldays, I had written to Barry Goater from the farm of the Essex lepidopterists, by the wood at Little Horkesley.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Although he would modestly deny it, Barry Goater was the instigator of an extraordinary educational experiment.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

This is where I first came to know the New Forest, returning several times to camp at Beaulieu Road during the school holidays with the Botany and Zoology sixth form and our Biology teacher Barry Goater, who was in his first teaching job, in charge of the school Biology Department.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Barry Goater was by far the greatest influence and inspiration to me in my passion for all things natural.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009