Skip to navigation Skip to content
Art in Nature

The Beauty of the Moment

  • Home Page
    • My account
  • Occasional Jottings
  • Odd Articles
    • In Search of Polperro Blue – A Cornish Yarn
    • Talland Red – A Reimagining of the Talland Frescoes
    • The Haunting – A Short Story (Inspired by the Talland Frescoes)
    • The Day we went Dowsing – and Dug a Well
    • A Protest Song – An Ode to the Countryside
  • Shop
  • Basket
  • Checkout
  • Home Page
    • My account
  • Occasional Jottings
  • Odd Articles
    • In Search of Polperro Blue – A Cornish Yarn
    • Talland Red – A Reimagining of the Talland Frescoes
    • The Haunting – A Short Story (Inspired by the Talland Frescoes)
    • The Day we went Dowsing – and Dug a Well
    • A Protest Song – An Ode to the Countryside
  • Shop
  • Basket
  • Checkout
  • £0.00 0 items
Home / Shop / Basket

Basket

Your basket is currently empty.

Return to shop

About This Blog

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

Search
Searchable Tags
Autumn Basil Ede Blackbird Blackthorn Blue Headed Wagtail Buzzard Charles Tunnicliffe Chiffchaff Coal Tit Cornwall cuckoo Dipper Dunnock Fieldfare Greenfinch Grey Wagtail House Sparrow. John Clare Lapwing Ludwig Koch Magpie Mistle Thrush nightingale Nuthatch Olivier Messiaen Peter Scott Pied Wagtail Raven Redstart Redwing Richard Jefferies Robin Siskin Song Thrush Spring Starling W H Hudson Whitethroat Willow Warbler Winifred Austen Winter Woodlark Wood Warbler Wren Yellowhammer
Recent Posts
  • In a Summer Meadow June 27, 2018
  • Songs from the Wood – Spring April 27, 2018
  • Birds in Music May 15, 2018
  • Under the Snow – of Winter April 13, 2018
  • The Dipper or Water Colley – A Study in Black and White July 15, 2018
Recent Comments
  • Martin Smith on Birds From My Rocking Chair
  • Clive Bennett on Birds From My Rocking Chair
  • Martin Smith on Birds From My Rocking Chair
  • Clive Bennett on Artists Inspired by Nature – Eric Ennion
  • Cynthia Reyes on Artists Inspired by Nature – Eric Ennion
Archives
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • January 2018
  • November 2017
Blog Stats
  • 9,620 hits
Featured Blog: Wildlife and Words

My Holiday Birding Highlights from East Anglia

My Holiday Birding Highlights from East Anglia

East Anglia is one of the best birding areas in the UK; in particular its coast, which is for the large part not greatly built-up and has a fantastic mix of interesting and rare habitats like dunes, reedbeds, lagoons, estuaries, sandy cliffs, shingle and sand spits, saltmarsh, grazing marsh, woodland, heath and broads. I was […]

Followed Blogs : nicola chester

Nature Notes

Hot Summer Badgers. Unusually for us, this is our first visit of the year to the badger sett.  Something happened here (and at the other badger setts locally); an indeterminate transgression from outside; a violation, perhaps a crime, that can’t be pinned down or proven – but that meant for a while, there were few […]

Followed Blogs: Hut Wood

14 August 2018

2018 / 50 Overcast with sunny bright spells. Cloud building from the west. Warm 17°C 07:30 – 09:45 There is less Willow Warbler song this morning, and apparently less bird activity on the east facing edge at the top. 15 minutes surveying this front indicate what was further evidenced later – an explosion of Coal […]

Followed Blogs: richard jefferies

COSMIC LIONS

Simon Coleman Richard Jefferies wrote two great essays on the theme of Trafalgar Square in London.  One of them, ‘Sunlight in a London Square’, has already been featured on this website.  The following quote is from ‘The Lions in Trafalgar Square’ which explores the relationship between human life and the great unknown, with Landseer’s huge […]

Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
  • My Account
  • Search
  • 0