Writing tagged: ‘Wirral’

  • Peregrine-harrier tag-team challenge

    Peregrine-harrier tag-team challenge

    In which I witness a peregrine and marsh harrier hunting together—almost as a team.

  • Pleasures of August

    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.

  • In the wilderness of Wirral

    In the wilderness of Wirral

    An unwelcome modern intrusion into one of my favourite wildernesses takes me on an unplanned medieval journey in reverse.

  • The iniquity of oblivion

    The iniquity of oblivion

    In the fudge-box-pretty village of Burton on my native Wirral Peninsula lie two graves, their inscriptions now utterly lost.