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Writing tagged: ‘Yorkshire’

Gannet

Bempton

More than just gannets…

Published 10-Jul-2022
Filed under: Nature, Writing Tags: barn owls, gannets, guillemots, insects, jackdaws, kittiwakes, photography, puffins, razorbills, tree sparrows, Yorkshire
Creative Commons photo from [gardenbirdwatching.com website](http://www.gardenbirdwatching.com/magpie.html)

Weird magpie

In which I encounter a brown and white magpie.

Published 30-Jun-2022
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge, leucism, magpies, Yorkshire
Swallow feeding its young

Sibling rivalry

In nature, individuals aren’t just in competition with the elements or other species.

Published 30-Jun-2022
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge, introverts v extroverts, natural selection, photography, swallows, swifts, Yorkshire
Gannet in flight

Gannets

A visit to the gannetry at RSPB Bempton Cliffs.

Published 24-Aug-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, gannets, Yorkshire
Swift

Swift visit

In search of Apus apus.

Published 16-Jun-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: swifts, Yorkshire
Filey

9 May 2021

A day out at the seaside.

Published 09-May-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: amphibians, Arctic terns, birds, Filey, frogs, gannets, Yorkshire
Ammonite fossil
Ammonite fossil

18 April 2021

My great-niece (age 6) finds a fossil.

Published 18-Apr-2021
Filed under: Writing Tags: fossils, Yorkshire
My photos
Before the doors opened.

Going physical

In which I get out there in meat-space.

Published 02-Feb-2017
Filed under: News, Writing Tags: Adelle Stripe, Amy Liptrot, Ben Myers, Calder Valley, Caught by the River, Hebden Bridge, Hebden’s Other Bridges (book), photography, YOGSOT, Yorkshire
Prints unwrapped
Unwrapping my prints.

One day my prints did come!

In which I geek-out over some high-tech print-production apparatus.

Published 14-Jan-2017
Filed under: News, Writing Tags: Calder Valley, Caught by the River, Hebden Bridge, Hebden’s Other Bridges (book), photography, Yorkshire
Hen harrier
Female hen harrier.

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.

Published 11-Nov-2016
Filed under: Articles, Featured Writing, Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, favourite places, flowers, golden plovers, harebells, heather, Hebden Bridge, hen harriers, kestrels, lapwings, meadow pipits, red grouse, snipe, swallows, the Moor, wheatears, Yorkshire
Hebden's Other Bridges

Hebden’s non-eponymous bridges

In which I describe a few of my favourite bridges from my photo-project ‘Hebden's Other Bridges’.

Published 25-Jul-2016
Filed under: Articles, Published Pieces, Writing Tags: Calder Valley, Caught by the River, Dalesman magazine, Hebden Bridge, Hebden’s Other Bridges (book), photography, Yorkshire
Wren

Wren visit

In which I find myself face-to-beak with Troglodites troglodites.

Published 07-Jun-2016
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, Hebden Bridge, proto-sidelines, wrens, Yorkshire

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