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Subject focus: Robin red breast
I recently had fun somewhere along the Bassenthwaite parametre oberving this single robin. He was loud, brazen and close enough to impart some knowledge about his appearance and habits. I hadn’t realised before that robins have a fringe of grey surrounding their chracteristic red breast – which is more of an organge in my opinion,
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Holy Cow!
Would you believe this one is about cows? I see a lot of cows, as most people hiking in rural areas will. Here’s the first collection of what I’ve observed from bovine encounters. Disclaimer for images of random sizes. They’ve been taken over a good number of years on a good number of devices. Merrily
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Peering at pinnipeds
This is one of how great seals and sea lions are. I’m sure fur seals and walruses are just as excellent, but I don’t know any yet. I’ll be all over it if I discover any in the British Isles. These are images of Californian sea lions photographed at Yorkshire Wildlife Park’s purpose-built sea lion
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“I could do that”
Everyone’s got a camera in their pocket, and anyone can take a photo. These are thoughts I have increasingly. They come to me when I’m doing a market and watch groups of people give my images a vague glance before swiftly moving on. I think it when I wonder if my photos are actually any
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Heather & Co.
Whenever I write a post, it feels like A Whole Thing. Long, and rather quite meandering. I enjoy this to an extent. But the level of content turns a blog into an undertaking. Typically, I don’t have the inclination, or consistency of spelling, to keep up with it. So I thought I’d try ‘shorts’ to
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Spring Rising
It seems that spring has dawned slowly this year. Tentatively. Conservatively. With Beltane now past, it feels like a pointent time to stop and reflect on how the wheel of the year has turned thus far. This reflection emerges through the early flowers and their role in my dreamy imagination. Magnolia I didn’t know what
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Dragons in the Underworld
Caving is divisive. Labyrinthine, pitch black, with a fairly endless array of other hazards, caving is a specialist art requiring equipment and skills far beyond the average outsdoorsman. In most cases, one does not simply rock up to a cave, certainly not one with any of the typical and more extraordinary features one would expect
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Simply Sheep – vol. 1
Sheep are hilarious and underrated. They’re inquisitive, yet indifferent, with clear social dynamics. They can be a joy to watch through the seasons, if not slightly intimidating when encountering a huge, protective new mother ewe, cluster of rams and of course a flock of hopeful sheep following you around feeding time. Volume one of… er,
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Mushroom Kingdom
A celebratory post of some of the more intriguing lifeforms on the trail. Emerging en mass towards the damp fringes of the year, bringing a wealth of colour, texture and oddity to an already exceptional natural scene. They light sparks in my super sensory brain. I can taste, smell and feel the textures of most
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Paradise Plateau
I’d always wondered what ‘The Cairngorms’ were as a child. What did it mean? And how did you get there? Could you even get there? In my mind, flashes of far away kingdoms, fairy stories and magic could be found in the Cairngorms- even though I had no idea where they even was. It sounded
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