buzzard
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Nature Notes
There is a Little of Spring in Autumn. On the last day of the strangest school holidays ever, the oats are being brought in from Home Field. Across the lane, fields of late-grown seed hay are being tedded; turned, woofed, floofed and dried before being teddered again into windrows and baled. The warm, biscuity scent […]
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Nature Notes
Mole and Buzzard On golden stubble, a buzzard feather is trapped between stalks. I pick it up – it is a secondary flight feather; shorter, broader and more rounded, an ‘underarm’ feather that provides lift. The narrower vane of the leading edge is dark brown, with almost indistinguishable horizontal barring. Lightening to a dun on […]