wild bird cover
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Nature Notes
Swallows and Gold Days. There is an absence of Swallows. A solitary bird returned to the wires at Coldharbour Farm a month ago and has only just been joined by another. I’ve seen others passing through, a brief gloss of navy blue, the twitter of several birds issued from one red throat; but the mud […]
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Nature Notes
Dust Devil, Raven Devil. A green woodpecker rolls and dips through the lower air like a paper plane folded from a page of colour supplement. His ‘yaffle’ laugh is slowed-down and languorous. He seem to wear spring’s colours in that season – all lime, lemon and sunlight-through-beech-leaves, but now, those same colours are of the […]
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Nature Notes
The Beautiful, Toxic Landscape. Spider webs net the dew, distilling it to clear drops. I could walk the width of this field and scoop up a whole glassful of water. The stubble begins to steam gently as the sun warms it, mist rising in curls and ringlets like the feathery plumes ghosting up from my […]
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Nature Notes
Mobbing. From the flint track over the down, I watch someone walking their dog well away from the footpath and where they ought to be, with interest. The dog quarters an area of rough grass where several hares will be lying up. But it is not these I am half-expecting, half-hoping to see. A pale, […]