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Writing tagged: ‘harebells’

Hen harrier
Female hen harrier.

The joy of the familiar—and the unfamiliar—on a local patch

Getting to know a place well means knowing what to look forward to, and appreciating when something unusual happens.

Published 11-Nov-2016
Filed under: Articles, Featured Writing, Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, favourite places, flowers, golden plovers, harebells, heather, Hebden Bridge, hen harriers, kestrels, lapwings, meadow pipits, red grouse, snipe, swallows, the Moor, wheatears, Yorkshire
Harebells
Harebells.

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.

Published 28-Aug-2015
Filed under: Articles, Featured Writing, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, Canada geese, Caught by the River, common mallow, common pheasants, Dee Marshes, favourite places, flowers, foxgloves, goldfinches, grasshoppers, grouse-shooting, harebells, heather, Hebden Bridge, herb Robert, Himalayan balsam, house martins, kestrels, little egrets, meadowsweet, nature, peregrines, purple-loosestrife, red grouse, rosebay willowherb, swallows, swifts, the Moor, thistles, trig point 4144, tufted vetch, wheatears, Wirral, Yorkshire

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