Writing tagged: ‘birds’
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Peregrine-harrier tag-team challenge
In which I witness a peregrine and marsh harrier hunting together—almost as a team.
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Valentine’s ritual
The weekend on or nearest to St Valentine’s Day marks a seasonal ritual for us: the annual pre-spring-cleaning of our blue tit nest-box.
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Seabird jizz
When you see a bird often enough, its jizz begins to rub off on you—if you’ll pardon the expression.
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Pleasures of August
August on the Dee Marshes and the Pennine Moors, including encounters with a bolshie pheasant, a practising peregrine, and a flirty wheatear.
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Dipper waiting
With half an hour to kill in Hebden Bridge, I head over to the river to see if there are any dippers around.
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Snapping at swallows
My dad’s dog and I both pursue swallows in our own way.
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Sir Thomas Browne observes a murmuration of starlings
Quote from ‘Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk More Especially on the Birds and Fishes’.
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A brush with the mob
In which the local jackdaws and rooks encounter an unusual foe.
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Eclipse
Photographing this morning’s partial solar eclipse.
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Getting jittery about swallows
It’s getting to that time of year again. Swallows are on their way.
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My bat-shit crazy hypothesis about rooks
A ridiculous observation concerning rooks, which can’t possibly be right.
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Grouse in winter
How red grouse change their habits in cold weather.