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Writing tagged: ‘gulls’

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
Common lizards

8 September 2020

Seabird tornado, lizards, porpoises, and house martins.

Published 08-Sep-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2020, birds, cetaceans, choughs, common lizards, devil’s-bit scabious, flowers, gannets, gorse, gulls, heather, house martins, porpoises, reptiles, swallows, thrift
Razorbill

7 September 2020

Watching razorbills.

Published 07-Sep-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2020, birds, curlews, gannets, gulls, little egrets, oystercatchers, razorbills
Flock of redshank

11 March 2020

A thrilling spectacle.

Published 11-Mar-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, curlews, Dee Marshes, dunlin, gulls, kestrels, little egrets, oystercatchers, peregrines, pink-footed geese, redshank, shelducks, teal, Wirral
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

High tides and volant voles

An unplanned visit to the flooded Dee Marshes is rewarded with a wildlife spectacle.

Published 04-Jan-2018
Filed under: Featured Writing, Writing Tags: birds, black-headed gulls, Dee Marshes, expeditions, favourite places, gulls, proto-sidelines, voles, water rails, 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
Sea mist
Sea mist, early morning, Anglesey

Back-endish

How a mere week can make a big difference in the natural world.

Published 27-Sep-2014
Filed under: Articles, Featured Writing, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: Anglesey, autumn, birds, Caught by the River, favourite places, gannets, geese, guillemots, gulls, house martins, sloes, swallows, Wales, wheatears

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