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Writing tagged: ‘hen harriers’

Female stonechat
Female stonechat

15 January 2020

Birds on the Dee Marshes.

Published 15-Jan-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, black-headed gulls, Burton Point, buzzards, chaffinches, curlews, Dee Marshes, hen harriers, jackdaws, kestrels, lapwings, little egrets, Phragmites, pink-footed geese, ravens, redshank, rooks, stonechats, teal, Wirral, woodpigeons
Female hen harrier

7 February 2019

Distracted by raptors.

Published 07-Feb-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, buzzards, crows, Dee Marshes, hen harriers, teal, Wirral, woodpigeons
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
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

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