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Writing tagged: ‘goat willows’

The first swallow of summer

31 March 2021

The first swallow of summer.

Published 31-Mar-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, butterflies, Calder Valley, curlews, goat willows, Hebden Bridge, insects, spring, swallows, trees
Pussy willow

28 February 2021

Late February seems to have decided it’s April.

Published 28-Feb-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, curlews, goat willows, Hebden Bridge, spring, trees
Roe buck

27 April 2020

A wonderful day’s wildlife.

Published 27-Apr-2020
Filed under: Featured Writing, Writing Tags: archaeology, barn owls, birds, Calder Valley, coronavirus, curlews, garden, goat willows, Hebden Bridge, insects, kestrels, lapwings, mammals, meadow pipits, mistle thrushes, red grouse, roe deer, skylarks, stonechats, swallows, the Moor, trig point 4144, videos, wheatears
Dee Marshes, Burton Point

27 March 2019

A walk along the edge of the Dee Marshes.

Published 27-Mar-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: alders, birds, Burton Point, common whitlow grass, Dee Marshes, flowers, geese, goat willows, gorse, great white egrets, hawthorn, kestrels, little egrets, long-tailed tits, moorhens, rooks, skylarks, spring, Wirral

22 March 2019

The first chiffchaff.

Published 22-Mar-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, chiffchaffs, goat willows, Halifax, Hebden Bridge

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