Nicola Chester

Nature Writer and Activist

Gerard Manley Hopkins

  • Nature Notes

    Fond Hornlight, Wild Hoarlight. When the mercury dipped, the frost stayed for days along the field edge under the wood; hoary fingers making a frost shadow, where the sun didn’t penetrate. Sunrise and sunset bookend the shortening days in aurora colours of yellow, orange, blue, green. In the morning, birds sit on the highest branches […]

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  • Nature Notes

    Strokes of Havoc … An evening walk takes me past gloriously uncut verges of ox-eye daisies, buzz and insects – but this is a perilous joy. Just as nature is at its most vibrant, productive and protective (of bees, butterflies, the unnamed, sustaining bugs, nestlings, voles, and even leverets, hedge hoglets and fawns) so many […]

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