Chris Hurley

Nuthatch in the wood

Owl solemnly calling through the static night

Four white tailed eagles from the landing when getting up, not a bad Sunday

Flutter of fieldfares roaming the holly

Saudade

Can hear foxes quarrelling through the wind

The wild garlic still breathes in December

Can hear the owls out over the marsh

Geese honking past the window

There's a black dog on the bed

The owls are out over the marsh

The skeletal shivers of silence

The house martins are packing up

The jackdaws are setting up t roost

Fail better

Sandwich terns in the harbour

Dense, earthy pine

Silent heaths

The hands we hold are the hands we will lose

Exuberant, ebullient, expectant

My usual haunt near Christchurch is down t three ... In the 90s the telephone wires were teeming with them, it's been some drop 😥

A brawling bubbling sky

It’s #WorldCurlewDay 💚

So here's 5 things Curlews are better at than you… a thread.

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The cormorants are flying off t roost

Blackbird singing through the rain

Wild garlic flowers are devine

Hillside packed with primroses

Swallows are back 🙌

The earth smells of spring

England vs Tunisia, France '98.