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Writing tagged: ‘whitethroats’

Meadow at sunset

Sun’s all hottin’ in the rotten hot

Is it just me, or is it hot around here?

Published 22-Jul-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: barn owls, birds, Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge, linnets, mammals, roe deer, siskins, whitethroats
Whitethroat

10 July 2020

Recognised by its ‘jizz’: my first Hebden Bridge whitethroat.

Published 10-Jul-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge, whitethroats
Roe deer

7 May 2019

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
Manx shearwater
Close-up from same photo.

Seabird jizz

When you see a bird often enough, its jizz begins to rub off on you—if you'll pardon the expression.

Published 09-Jan-2016
Filed under: Featured Writing, Writing Tags: Anglesey, birds, favourite places, Manx shearwaters, nature, photography, proto-sidelines, Wales, whitethroats

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