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Writing tagged: ‘magpies’

Creative Commons photo from [gardenbirdwatching.com website](http://www.gardenbirdwatching.com/magpie.html)

Weird magpie

In which I encounter a brown and white magpie.

Published 30-Jun-2022
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge, leucism, magpies, Yorkshire
The temporary office.

23 March 2020

Office move.

Published 23-Mar-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, blue tits, Calder Valley, chaffinches, common pheasants, coronavirus, curlews, dunnocks, goldfinches, great tits, greenfinches, Hebden Bridge, house sparrows, magpies
Magpie feather
Magpie feather

11 July 2019

We’re nearing peak moulting season.

Published 11-Jul-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge, magpies, sparrowhawks
Caught by the River

6 July 2019

An entirely fictional Caught by the River event.

Published 06-Jul-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, cats, Caught by the River, Hebden Bridge, Helen Mort, long-tailed tits, magpies, on writing, swallows

6 January 2019

On thieving magpies.

Published 06-Jan-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, common pheasants, crows, Hebden Bridge, magpies

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