song thrush
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Nature Notes
Sleeting. The snow begins to fall at daybreak and continues sporadically throughout the day. For the first two hours it comes down fast and settles thickly, then turns to sleet, then rain, then back to snow. The woods provide a brown-screen backdrop for varieties of wintry precipitation in a moving panorama: snow in small hard […]
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Nature Notes
Vessel of Song. Spring walks into summer and, confined to our very small radiuses, it feels like we are walking with it; noticing some advancement or small incremental change each day. We delve and settle deeper. On the longest day, the song thrush that has been singing as long as the daylight lasts, every day […]
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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
Blood on the Apple Blossom. On my way to the kettle at 6.30am, the racket from the garden birds alerted me to the presence of a predator – I didn’t have to look far – the sparrowhawk had already made a kill and was straddling its victim on the grass beneath the apple trees, plucking out […]