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Writing tagged: ‘ravens’

Anglesey 2021

The view from my favourite Anglesey rock

My annual early September holiday in Anglesey.

Published 22-Sep-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2021, astronomy, birds, gannets, grey seals, ravens, razorbills, swallows

9 April 2021

Blackstone Edge

A walk along Blackstone Edge.

Published 09-Apr-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Blackstone Edge, Greater Manchester, meadow pipits, ravens

26 March 2020

Garden incinerator

Time for a bonfire!

Published 26-Mar-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, curlews, garden, Hebden Bridge, ravens

15 March 2020

A sinister portent.

Published 15-Mar-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: Alice Roberts, birds, Calder Valley, coronavirus, Hebden Bridge, ravens

15 January 2020

Female stonechat
Female stonechat

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

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

17 October 2019

Burton Marshes

The Dee Marshes.

Published 17-Oct-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Burton Point, Cetti’s warblers, Dee Marshes, jackdaws, knots, little egrets, ravens, redshank, reed mace, rooks, teal, 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

7 May 2019

Roe deer

Deer, warblers, and lots of midges.

Published 07-May-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Burton Point, Calder Valley, Dee Marshes, Hebden Bridge, insects, mammals, midges, ravens, reed buntings, roe deer, sedge warblers, whinchats, whitethroats, Wirral

10 April 2019

Cetti's warbler
Cetti's warbler

In search of bearded tits.

Published 10-Apr-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: avocets, bar-tailed godwits, bearded tits, birds, brimstone butterflies, Cetti’s warblers, chiffchaffs, Dee Marshes, ducks, gadwalls, geese, lapwings, little egrets, little grebes, nature waiting, ravens, reed buntings, shovelers, teal, tufted ducks, Wirral

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