Nicola Chester

Nature Writer and Activist

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  • Nature Notes

    Felling Sticks Walk. Bird nesting season and they’re chainsawing the wood. And not any old wood (is there such a thing?) but ours. Our wood. And they are not just chainsawing it. They are eating it up and spitting it out in random patterns with enormous forestry machinery that looks apocalyptic: giant grabs, shears and […]

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  • Nature Notes

    Digger on the hill. We go out just before sunset on a glorious day where the sky is swimming-pool blue. A warm breeze provokes whitebeam leaves into light. It is not strong, but it is a portent of the weather to come and enough to turn the wind turbine on the far hill, so I […]

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  • Nature Notes

    Earth and Sett The vixen has moved her cubs, spreading them out into separate holes and chambers. They are growing up. She returns each night with food, calling from 100yds away along the down, tempting them out, building their confidence and independence. Around the earth, the foliage is crushed, flattened or worn away with their […]

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