Writing about foxes
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Nature Notes
Arcturus and the Foxes. For the first time since October, blackbird song woke me before my alarm; a bar had been crossed. The strange, unprecedented February heatwave triggered synapses alert to a season far more advanced than it actually was. It tripped a search, all senses primed, for joyful, familiar markers, a litany learnt and […]
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Nature Notes
Hedgebottom Foxes. A blank-window pallor gleams through the bottom of the bare hawthorn hedge on the hill above. Where protective tree tubes have been, the hedge bottom is open and spaced evenly by slender trunks, giving it a cloistered appearance. It is an unusual vantage point for me: a steamy kitchen on a Saturday-job afternoon. […]