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Featured Blog: Hut Wood
5 August 2020
2020 / 47 06:30 – 09:00 Overcast and dull, thick low cloud. Wind increasing SW and some blue sky later Early morning again. At last. The arrival in Southampton Old Cemetery last weekend of two Pied Flycatchers rather woke us all up to the fact that return migration is underway. The short summer-that-never-was is already […]
Featured Blog: nicola chester
Nature Notes
The Barley Bird and the Comet. Out on the Marlborough Downs, there was a song I’d strained to hear at home. It remained a possibility there, a trace echo in the white noise of grasshoppers or the tinnitus of distant meadow pipits; but here, this funny little key farmland bird was real and singing, and […]
Featured Blog: richard jefferies
ONE LIFE
Simon Coleman ‘As the wind, wandering over the sea, takes from each wave an invisible portion, and brings to those on shore the ethereal essence of ocean, so the air lingering among the woods and hedges—green waves and billows—became full of fine atoms of summer. Swept from notched hawthorn leaves, broad-topped oak-leaves, narrow ash sprays […]
Featured Blog: Working for grouse
Best and Worst
Low Airie, Glenkens – 7/6/20 The cattle have been out for a month, and it feels like they have grasped the meaning of their work. It’s fine to hear them ripping at the new grass, gently reshaping the hill with a thousand gobful tears. The ecological benefits of having them out are increasingly plain to […]
Featured Blog: Haiku Gravy
time and tide wait for no man
phases of the moon my daughter’s face at bedtime
twigs
crosslegged ready to light the fire
nap
after my sleepthe grassalso wakes
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