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Writing tagged: ‘turnstones’

Sandwich tern

1 September 2019

Watching terns, and a walk along the Anglesey coast.

Published 01-Sep-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2019, astronomy, birds, butterflies, fulmars, grey seals, insects, lesser whitethroats, mammals, ringed plovers, Sandwich terns, turnstones, wheatears
Puffin Island

An irrelevance in the landscape

On the realisation that the natural world gets on perfectly well without us.

Published 03-Oct-2016
Filed under: Articles, Featured Writing, Writing Tags: Anglesey, birds, cormorants, dolphins, favourite places, gannets, grey seals, gulls, herring gulls, Manx shearwaters, nature waiting, oystercatchers, turnstones, Wales

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