Writing tagged: ‘swallows’
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10 April 2020
Still no swallows.
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13 February 2020
Two unexpected mid-February swallow encounters.
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4 October 2019
Mistle thrushes and late swallows.
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21 September 2019
Autumn approaches.
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11 September 2019
A spin out to Salts Mill.
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10 July 2019
A dead swallow.
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6 July 2019
An entirely fictional Caught by the River event.
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5 June 2019
A walk along the marsh.
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6 April 2019
Poached eggs and the first swallow.
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Newsletter No. 5: ‘Incongruous owl’
dawn chorus · Simon Armitage · the invention of the telescope · huge, sprawling collaborations · Withnail & I · book smells · re-assembling Darwin’s research notes · converting walks into words · Daniel Dennett · writing letters · humanist politics · dentistry with stone tools · analysing penguin poo · Melissa Harrison · Robert…
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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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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.