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Nature Notes
Song Thrush, Firebox. Away from everything, there is a profound quiet in these short, grey-white days that feels reflective and inward. The sun levers open the lid of a tin-coloured sky at dawn and dusk, to peer up at the underbelly of grey cloud before closing its eye. A fox has been using the field […]
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Nature Notes
Earthstars and Peacocks. The belt of trees between the down and the arable field is protected from both the hedgecutter and spray drift by a wide, conservation strip. The grass is long and pale, full of spiders, beetles, bugs, moths, butterfly eggs, mice and voles and – as I walk its length – about a […]
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Nature Notes
The darkness, being double the light. Between sunrise and sunset there are precious few hours now. The dark is double the available light. And in December there are other pressures so, for a while, I am indoors, or dashing about more than I would like to be. The stolen hours out become ever more intoxicating, […]
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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 […]