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Writing tagged: ‘herb Robert’

Welsh poppies

31 May 2021

Being the world’s laziest gardener certainly has its advantages.

Published 31-May-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: bats, birds, Calder Valley, dandelions, flowers, Hebden Bridge, herb Robert, rosebay willowherb, stinging nettles, tawny owls, Welsh poppies
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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