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Writing tagged: ‘grey seals’

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
The view from my favourite Anglesey rock

Anglesey 2021

My annual early September holiday in Anglesey.

Published 22-Sep-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2021, astronomy, birds, gannets, grey seals, ravens, razorbills, swallows
Hell's Mouth

5 September 2019

A yoga-ist, terns, a favourite walk, a seal, and a crab: it’s non-stop action in Anglesey!

Published 05-Sep-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2019, autumn, birds, crabs, grey seals, Sandwich terns, seals
Sandwich tern

1 September 2019

Watching terns, and a walk along the Anglesey coast.

Published 01-Sep-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2019, astronomy, birds, butterflies, fulmars, grey seals, insects, lesser whitethroats, mammals, ringed plovers, Sandwich terns, turnstones, wheatears
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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