passage migrants north wessex downs
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Nature Notes
An Almost-Hoopoe. .My ten-year-old daughter described this reluctant spring perfectly as we passed a bank of wood anemones, their petals pursed tight, like lips withholding a secret: ‘it’s like the ground knows it’s spring, but the sky won’t have it’. There were patchy reports of spring migrant birds coming through – wheatear and ring ouzel. […]
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Nature Notes
Birds of the High Arctic. There are swallows on the wires on the Coldharbour Road. Their blue-black glossiness burnished by the African sun. A slow moving galleon of cumulous cloud pulses with distant lightening: a mobile silent disco sailing by. The weather is classically April; bright, silly, unpredictable. Though it is late and the sloe […]