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Writing tagged: ‘videos’

2021: a year in photos

New-year snow

My eleventh annual video slideshow.

Published 01-Jan-2022
Filed under: News, Writing Tags: photography, slideshows, videos

A thrilling encounter on the most inauspicious of days

A surprisingly fruitful week in terms of random bird encounters

Published 09-Oct-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: barn owls, birds, Calder Valley, geese, great spotted woodpeckers, Hebden Bridge, kingfishers, long-tailed tits, videos

27 September 2021

Our semi-tame resident pheasant, Philip (whom I suspect is actually Philip III), has been strutting proudly about the garden the last few days with missus and kids in tow.

Published 27-Sep-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge, pheasants, videos

28 June 2021

Commemorative stone

A walk around Ogden Water, and an encounter with a locally rare bird.

Published 28-Jun-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, Charles Darwin, ducks, flowers, gesses, great crested grebes, grey herons, Halifax, Hebden Bridge, John Frederick Bateman, Ogden Water, On the Moor (book), siskins, videos, yellow flag irises

2020: a year in photos

Common lizards

My tenth annual video slideshow.

Published 01-Jan-2021
Filed under: News, Writing Tags: photography, slideshows, videos

27 April 2020

Roe buck

A wonderful day’s wildlife.

Published 27-Apr-2020
Filed under: Featured Articles, Writing Tags: archaeology, barn owls, birds, Calder Valley, coronavirus, curlews, garden, goat willows, Hebden Bridge, insects, kestrels, lapwings, mammals, meadow pipits, mistle thrushes, red grouse, roe deer, skylarks, stonechats, swallows, the Moor, trig point 4144, videos, wheatears

9 February 2020

More floods in the Calder Valley.

Published 09-Feb-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge, song thrushes, videos, weather

2019: a year in photos

2019 slideshow

My ninth annual video slideshow.

Published 01-Jan-2020
Filed under: News, Writing Tags: photography, slideshows, videos

2018: a year in photos

2018 slideshow

My eighth annual video slideshow.

Published 01-Jan-2019
Filed under: News, Writing Tags: photography, slideshows, videos

Where has all the heather gone?

Trig Point

The Moor is looking decidedly lacklustre this August.

Published 09-Aug-2018
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, heather, nature waiting, On the Moor (book), proto-sidelines, the Moor, trig point 4144, videos

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RECENT NEWSLETTERS

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  • Newsletter No. 27: ‘Getting hitched’
    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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    A bad night’s sleep has unforeseen benefits.
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    There is an embarrassment of riches when it comes to whatever ‘nature writing’ is supposed to be these days. It might not all be to my personal taste, but such diversity has to be a good thing.

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    To mark the 300th anniversary of his birth, a brief account of Rev. Gilbert White’s influence on Charles Darwin.

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  • 2021: a year in photos
    My eleventh annual video slideshow.
  • HebWeb interview
    I have been interviewed for the local HebWeb site.

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