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Writing tagged: ‘grey herons’

Commemorative stone

28 June 2021

A walk around Ogden Water, and an encounter with a locally rare bird.

Published 28-Jun-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, Charles Darwin, ducks, flowers, gesses, great crested grebes, grey herons, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, John Frederick Bateman, Ogden Water, On the Moor (book), siskins, videos, yellow flag irises
Grey heron

1 February 2021

A decidedly un-Februaryish day, and a close encounter with a heron.

Published 01-Feb-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, flowers, grey herons, Mum, snowdrops

18 March 2020

A generous gift.

Published 18-Mar-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Charles Darwin, coronavirus, great white egrets, grey herons, Wirral
South Stack Lighthouse

4 September 2019

More birds down on the rocks, and a trip to South Stack.

Published 04-Sep-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2019, birds, choughs, grey herons
Black-headed gull dive-bombing grey heron

16 July 2019

Bolshie gulls and a defensive heron.

Published 16-Jul-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: astronomy, birds, black-headed gulls, Dee Marshes, great white egrets, grey herons, kestrels, little egrets, reed warblers, Wirral
Dee Marshes, Parkgate, sunset
Dee Marshes, Parkgate, sunset

9 July 2019

Dinner with a friend, and a Dee sunset.

Published 09-Jul-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Dee Marshes, geese, grey herons, photography, starlings, Stense, Wirral
Grey heron

18 October 2018

Distracted by nature.

Published 18-Oct-2018
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Burton Point, Carolyn, Charles Darwin, grey herons, hen harriers, insects, kestrels, on writing, spiders, Wirral

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