Writing tagged: ‘favourite places’
Posts about places that mean a lot to me.
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Anglesey 2023
What we saw on our annual holiday in Anglesey.
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High tides and volant voles
An unplanned visit to the flooded Dee Marshes is rewarded with a wildlife spectacle.
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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.
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An irrelevance in the landscape
On the realisation that the natural world gets on perfectly well without us.
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Spoonbill identification: harder than you might think
Struggling to identify a species is the best way to learn.
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Hats off to geology!
Geology doesn’t receive the recognition it deserves. Our modern understanding of how the world formed and evolved is one of science’s great triumphs.
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My concrete muse
She might only be a lump of concrete, but I have an immense fondness for trig. point 4144.
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When is a buzzard not a buzzard?
…when it’s a marsh harrier.
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Migrant waders anthology
I have provided an article for a new anthology about wading birds.
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Peregrine-harrier tag-team challenge
In which I witness a peregrine and marsh harrier hunting together—almost as a team.
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Seabird jizz
When you see a bird often enough, its jizz begins to rub off on you—if you’ll pardon the expression.
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Invertigo
I’ve never seen stars remotely approaching those in Anglesey. There are so damn many of them. Thousand upon thousand. Too many to count.