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Writing tagged: ‘hawthorn’

4 April 2020

Robin

Taking in the view from across the valley.

Published 04-Apr-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, Canada geese, ducks, hawthorn, Hebden Bridge, jackdaws, mallards, nuthatches, robins, rooks

24 March 2020

Thrush's snail ‘anvil’

Mobbing, molluscs, and foraging.

Published 24-Mar-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, goldfinches, hawthorn, Hebden Bridge, kestrels, snails, song thrushes

7 December 2019

Redwings.

Published 07-Dec-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, hawthorn, Hebden Bridge, redwings

2 December 2019

Fieldfare on our hawthorn

Blackbirds and fieldfares all over our hawthorn.

Published 02-Dec-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, blackbirds, Calder Valley, fieldfares, hawthorn, Hebden Bridge, trees

16 November 2019

Lots of berries.

Published 16-Nov-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, blackbirds, Calder Valley, fieldfares, hawthorn, Hebden Bridge, mistle thrushes, trees

22 September 2019

Dreich weather

A dreich day.

Published 22-Sep-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, flowers, foxgloves, hawthorn, Hebden Bridge, trees, weather

27 March 2019

Dee Marshes, Burton Point

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

Recent Newsletters

  • Newsletter No. 28: ‘Breaking my golden rule’
    Thoughts on nature writing · Richard Feynman · Vikings! · Bronze Age diets · recovered daguerreotypes · transit of Phobos · Alice Roberts · Cal Flyn
  • Newsletter No. 27: ‘Getting hitched’
    The Pros and Cons of tying the knot · prehistoric invention · Ernest Shackleton · W.G. Sebald · swallows · comma splices · Amy Liptrot · Kapka Kassabova
  • Newsletter No. 26: ‘Slits for pupils’
    Research triage · filing your nuggets · pupil shapes · Amy Liptrot · moths and bats · critical reading · early medieval history · Tim Dee · book reviews

Recent Sidelines

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Recent Articles

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News

  • 2021: a year in photos
    My eleventh annual video slideshow.
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    I have been interviewed for the local HebWeb site.

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