Still no swallows.
Writing tagged: ‘swallows’
13 February 2020
Two unexpected mid-February swallow encounters.
4 October 2019
Mistle thrushes and late swallows.
21 September 2019
Autumn approaches.
11 September 2019
A spin out to Salts Mill.
10 July 2019
A dead swallow.
6 July 2019
An entirely fictional Caught by the River event.
5 June 2019
A walk along the marsh.
6 April 2019
Poached eggs and the first swallow.
Newsletter No. 5: ‘Incongruous owl’
dawn chorus · Simon Armitage · the invention of the telescope · huge, sprawling collaborations · Withnail & I · book smells · re-assembling Darwin’s research notes · converting walks into words · Daniel Dennett · writing letters · humanist politics · dentistry with stone tools · analysing penguin poo · Melissa Harrison · Robert Macfarlane · swallows
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.
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.