winter thrushes
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Nature Notes
Winter Thrushes, Warmer Thrushes … March 2024. Whilst the calendar month has moved on and daylight has increased past six o’clock in the evening, it still feels wintery – chilly and damp with porridgey skies and so much water and mud. The spring I’m noticing most at the moment comes via the thrushes. As soon […]
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Nature Notes
Winter Gold. The ninety-acre field could be a bleak prospect. High and exposed, it can appear a vast expanse of tilled mud: six-inch high rape leaves, little else. Squally showers come on biting gusts, shaking the new leaves to silver with a loud pattering. The mud is heavy on our boots. It seems an incredible, […]