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Writing tagged: ‘linnets’

Sun’s all hottin’ in the rotten hot

Meadow at sunset

Is it just me, or is it hot around here?

Published 22-Jul-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: barn owls, birds, Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge, linnets, mammals, roe deer, siskins, whitethroats

9 April 2020

Linnet

A linnet.

Published 09-Apr-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge, linnets

23 January 2020

Knots (probably)
Knots (probably).

A glorious day on the marshes.

Published 23-Jan-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Burton Point, Dee Marshes, dunlin, horseflies, kestrels, linnets, little egrets, long-tailed tits, midges, Phragmites, pink-footed geese, redwings, robins, rooks, starlings, stonechats, Wirral

27 November 2019

Autumn, Burton Marshes

A walk along the misty Dee Marshes,

Published 27-Nov-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, blackbirds, Burton Point, Canada geese, Dee Marshes, frogs, jackdaws, kestrels, linnets, mistle thrushes, pink-footed geese, ravens, robins, rooks, voles, Wirral

3 September 2019

Bull Bay headland

Guillemots and gulls in action, and my favourite Anglesey walk.

Published 03-Sep-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2019, birds, crabs, flowers, gannets, gorse, guillemots, heather, herring gulls, linnets, ravens, sheep’s bit, tormentil, wheatears

6 June 2019

Looking down from the Moor

A walk on the Moor.

Published 06-Jun-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, bumblebees, buzzards, Calder Valley, common pheasants, curlews, Hebden Bridge, lapwings, linnets, meadow pipits, skylarks, the Moor, trig point 4144

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
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    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

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