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Writing tagged: ‘buzzards’

31 May 2021 (redux)

Buttercups

Hebden Bridge has reached Peak Yellow.

Published 31-May-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, buttercups, buzzards, Calder Valley, flowers, Hebden Bridge

6 April 2021

Hail shower heading down the Hebden Valley

Buzzards and blizzards.

Published 06-Apr-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, buzzards, Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge, kestrels, snow

31 August 2020

Rabbit, chilling

Buzzards, wasps, a kestrel, and a bunny.

Published 31-Aug-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, buzzards, Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge, insects, kestrels, mammals, rabbits, wasps

6 April 2020

Buzzard

Blue tits, a buzzard, and some A1 owl intelligence.

Published 06-Apr-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: barn owls, birds, blue tits, buzzards, Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge

15 January 2020

Female stonechat
Female stonechat

Birds on the Dee Marshes.

Published 15-Jan-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, black-headed gulls, Burton Point, buzzards, chaffinches, curlews, Dee Marshes, hen harriers, jackdaws, kestrels, lapwings, little egrets, Phragmites, pink-footed geese, ravens, redshank, rooks, stonechats, teal, Wirral, woodpigeons

24 December 2019

Buzzard

My 32nd consecutive Christmas Eve ascent of Moel Famau in North Wales.

Published 24-Dec-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, buzzards, Carolyn, Christmas, Moel Famau, red kites, Wales, Wirral

6 June 2019

Looking down from the Moor

A walk on the Moor.

Published 06-Jun-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, bumblebees, buzzards, Calder Valley, common pheasants, curlews, Hebden Bridge, lapwings, linnets, meadow pipits, skylarks, the Moor, trig point 4144

7 February 2019

Female hen harrier

Distracted by raptors.

Published 07-Feb-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, buzzards, crows, Dee Marshes, hen harriers, teal, Wirral, woodpigeons

19 October 2018

Hebden Bridge

How buzzards see the world differently to us

Published 19-Oct-2018
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, buzzards, Calder Valley, dogs, Hebden Bridge

When is a buzzard not a buzzard?

Marsh harrier

…when it's a marsh harrier.

Published 14-Apr-2016
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, buzzards, favourite places, marsh harriers, proto-sidelines, Wirral

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