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Welcome to my Blog – a celebration of birds – in art and anecdote, poetry and prose – part memoir, part anthology, part nature writing, with biographical snippets about favourite artists. Follow me as I ramble through the year writing about the birds I see – share your own encounters with birds, or tell me about your patch … More
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- An Ode to the Countryside December 10, 2018
- A Moment in Time December 1, 2018
- Artists Inspired by Nature – Rowland Hilder December 1, 2018
- Along an Autumn Hedge November 11, 2018
- Variations on a Theme – Yellow, Grey, White (Pied) – Wagtail All November 11, 2018
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Followed Blogs: Hut Wood
16 December 2018
2018 / 83 Cold early morning, bright for a time then becoming grey and wet. Brief clear spell following three days of heavy and prolonged rain. 07:45 – 10:00 It’s about 10 minutes before sunrise, and the east end of the wood is still dark, cold and very damp. The recent heavy rain is […]
Followed Blogs : nicola chester
Nature Notes
Owling. I own neither a passport, nor a house, but last night, saw 4 species of owl within a mile of home. I heard the first before I saw it. The yelp of a little owl from the farm as I walked my youngest daughter home from school. We scan the outstretched limbs of the […]
Followed Blogs: richard jefferies
THE GROOVED VALLEY
Simon Coleman The South Downs. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/east-sussex/south-downs/articles/The-South-Downs-pub-walks/ The following passage from Richard Jefferies’ autobiography, ‘The Story of My Heart’, provides a perfect example of how a particular landscape can induce a calm and creative state of mind. The landscape in this case is chalk downland, where sharp valleys can suddenly cut into wide stretches of […]