Writing tagged: ‘favourite places’
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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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Bloodless grouse-shoot
After 20 years walking on the Moor, I finally bag a brace of decent grouse photos.
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Grouse in winter
How red grouse change their habits in cold weather.
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Prize-winning author lost on Moor
When your instincts and your compass disagree, trust your instincts. I mean your compass.
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A new favourite place
A walk with an old friend on the Cumbrian coast.
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Back-endish
How a mere week can make a big difference in the natural world.
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The best camera
My point-and-shoot camera turned out to be the best camera in the world yesterday.
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Seeing purple
The Moor is at peak-purple at this time of year, with the heather in full bloom.
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The nearly dead tree
Each spring, I visit a particular corner of the Moor to check if an old friend has managed to survive another winter.
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In the wilderness of Wirral
An unwelcome modern intrusion into one of my favourite wildernesses takes me on an unplanned medieval journey in reverse.
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Anglesey
About my—and my mum’s—childhood holidays on the Welsh island of Anglesey.
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Wild Cat Island
Three and a half decades after I first became enchanted by the place, I finally set foot on the island that inspired Arthur Ransome’s ‘Swallows and Amazons’.