Here, for all who know the Downs – their wandering pathways through fields of yellow and green, blue yet often lowering skies, are the Downs on an English summer’s afternoon. Rowland Hilder - The Downs.
Rowland Hilder PPRI RSMA OBE
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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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8 September 2019
2019 / 75 0730 – 1045 A long session in bright late summer conditions. 7-8C clear sky. There is a quickness in my step today, my spirits lifted by improving circumstances and lightened by the autumnal chill in this morning’s air. I am early, and pleased to feel the morning sunshine has a welcoming and […]
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Nature Notes
The Sea & The Gold Drop Roads. All week, the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path had taken us right, or further North; down to the Havens and the beaches. But after a careful night walk across the clifftops, our curiosity had been piqued by a small boat, lit and anchored under the steep, wooded cliffs of the […]
Followed Blogs: richard jefferies
‘There is Something More’
Simon Coleman Photo by Richard Wiltshire: https://www.trover.com/d/1m11S-quantock-hills-somerset-england ‘The sun in silence rising over the sea makes me feel a sense and a sympathy with some larger life, and to imagine some larger scheme.’ So wrote Richard Jefferies in his notebook in early 1887, in what would be the last year of his life. He […]
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