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Writing tagged: ‘cormorants’

Grey seal

On the rocks

What I saw sitting on my favourite rock.

Published 25-Sep-2022
Filed under: Nature, Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2022, birds, Brent geese, cormorants, curlews, gannets, grey seals, guillemots, gulls, little egrets, nature waiting, oystercatchers, razorbills, RNLI, rock pipits, Sandwich terns, swallows, wheatears
Hell’s Mouth

9 September 2020

Another favourite Anglesey walk.

Published 09-Sep-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2020, autumn, birds, cetaceans, choughs, cormorants, curlews, gulls, oystercatchers, razorbills

6 September 2020

Watching yachts, and a walk along the Anglesey coast.

Published 06-Sep-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2020, birds, cormorants, gannets, peregrines, reminiscences, rock pipits, shags
Near Moelfre

5 September 2020

Back to Anglesey!

Published 05-Sep-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2020, birds, cormorants, gannets, oystercatchers, razorbills, Sandwich terns
Razorbills

6 September 2019

Seabird feeding frenzy!

Published 06-Sep-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2019, birds, cormorants, guillemots, gulls, house martins, little egrets, razorbills, whitebait
Waiting for the tide

31 August 2019

Back to Anglesey!

Published 31-Aug-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2019, cormorants, gulls, razorbills, Sandwich terns

7 March 2019

An oddly perched cormorant

Published 07-Mar-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, cormorants, Hebden Bridge
Hoylake

11 December 2018

The seaside in winter.

Published 11-Dec-2018
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, black-tailed godwits, cormorants, dunlin, Hoylake, knots, Liverpool, oystercatchers, photography, redshank, shelducks, Wirral
Puffin Island

An irrelevance in the landscape

On the realisation that the natural world gets on perfectly well without us.

Published 03-Oct-2016
Filed under: Articles, Featured Writing, Writing Tags: Anglesey, birds, cormorants, dolphins, favourite places, gannets, grey seals, gulls, herring gulls, Manx shearwaters, nature waiting, oystercatchers, turnstones, Wales

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