Call of the Nightjar
Along with the arrival of Swift comes another bird of myth and magic - the Nightjar. While the Swift is a bird of the summer skies the Nightjar haunts the wooded heaths.
Call of the Nightjar
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Featured Blog: Hut Wood
30 June 2020
2020 / 42 20:30 – 22:00 Still overcast after a day of showers and persistent drizzle. Mild evening 16°C with a moderate F3 SW wind. Clearing from the West later. I have come to ‘check up’ on, watch and otherwise investigate the ‘eastenders’. The eggs are still exposed, which is a concern. Is the nest […]
Featured Blog: nicola chester
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Proceed, With Caution. I’ve never seen such a volume and variety of fledgling birds coming to the bird feeders. It’s a joyous and engaging daily drama – and an expensive one. There could be many reasons for their being so many, if, indeed there are; we are spending much more time watching and feeding them; […]
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
Bradgate Park
brackenon the breeze the young deerantler fuzz
one tequila…
hungoverlow grey cloudsscudding
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thunder slopping hibiscus tea
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