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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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- In a Summer Meadow June 27, 2018
- Songs from the Wood – Spring April 27, 2018
- Birds in Music May 15, 2018
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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 […]
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Nature Notes
Lamplight from the Oak’s Cavern. It was the glow emanating from within the Horse Field Oak that made me stop and reappraise it. A lamplight glow that kept catching my eye as I worked; the sort of glow you might expect on opening a treasure chest, hauled from the deep. This much-loved tree stands in […]
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17 September 2018
2018 / 63 13:30 – 15:30 Unseasonally warm, bright and beautiful. 22°C. Wind increasing from the south It’s a delight to walk here in condition like this. Passing time. And to see Hobbies, Ravens and Firecrests every day is a 40-year birding highlight. Ravens first, very noisy as I walked round the track to the […]
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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 […]