red kites
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Nature Notes
Red Kites for Christmas After school, we head for the hanging wood to wait for the kites, the light already bleeding away. My smallest daughter and I pick our way through brambles, disturbing a roebuck lying up under the weatherproofing of the laurel. We find a comfortably shaped tree to lean on. And then the […]
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Nature Notes
Fires in the Fall. Writing in my hut, I am distracted by a small, determined scraping. I suspect I know what it is, but I can’t be sure until I go outside and look: there, late on in the season, a magnificent hornet is methodically scraping the wood from the window, leaving tiny blonde stripes […]