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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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Followed Blogs: Hut Wood
23 June 2019
2019 / 60 21:00 – 22:30 Muggy evening, overcast and dull. Very warm 19°C The light is generally less favourable this evening, but I am drawn to the Nightjars and cannot resist an opportunity to visit again. As I walk down the track, a Woodcock squeaks overhead in the opposite direction, and watching him I […]
Followed Blogs : nicola chester
Nature Notes
Ocksey Daisies & Open Gates. Trying to clear thoughts muddled by persistent headaches, I go for a little lie down – on the broad open flank of the hill. Evening, and nothing but the sound of skylarks and meadow pipits singing their way up and back down to the grass wigwams of their nests, and […]
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 […]
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