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Welcome to my Blog – a celebration of birds, mostly – 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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Recent Posts
- The Hawk in the Wind November 27, 2019
- Birds of the Night November 9, 2019
- Richard Barrett Talbot Kelly (1896-1971) October 17, 2019
- The Haunting of Talland October 1, 2019
- Summer Meadows August 26, 2019
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Featured Blog: Hut Wood
02 December 2019
2019 / 87 07:30 – 10:30 Cold 1°C – heavy frost overnight. Clear blue sky And today I come with a more bird-orientated focus. The cold ‘snap’ suggests there could be some movement, and hopefully among species other than thrushes and pigeons? Clearly Redwings are active, and already just down the steep narrow road of […]
Featured Blog: nicola chester
Nature Notes.
Old Gods & Raven Calls. These winter days, we become crepuscular. Sometimes it feels that, outside, only the glow from big round hazel leaves, or the gold flare from a little quince tree in the hedge, with its hard, yellow-green fruits, provides the only natural light. Like a stored memory; a facsimile of sunshine, a […]
Featured Blog: richard jefferies
The Hawk in the Wind Reimagining Richard Jefferies
A Guest Post by Clive Bennett ‘See—the hawk, after going nearly out of sight, has swept round, and passes again at no great distance; this is a common habit of his kind, to beat round in wide circles. As the breeze strikes him aslant his course he seems to fly for a short time partly […]
Featured Blog: Working for grouse
Hefted to Hill
It was a fine treat to be invited down to Teesdale last week. I love the North Pennines, and always reckoned that if Galloway was wiped off the map tomorrow, I’d head straight for the hills between Alston and Wolsingham. That’s partly to do with the sheer quantity of black grouse in the area (probably […]
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