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Sue Harrison

@skootysue.bsky.social

Birds, plants, nature writing, environmental art - in fact anything to do with ‘place’

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Country diary: Foxes are seeking mates. And the evidence is everywhere | Nicola Chester Newbury, Berkshire: From tracks in the snow to musky scent markings to vixens screaming in the night, it is hard to ignore fox mating season

A #FoxoftheDay in words! Town fox-country fox: hard to ignore right now, foxes pique the senses as they go a 'woo-oo-ooing'; musky notes of singed fur, sandalwood, spice & hawthorn flowers abound, though I keep quiet on the delicate matter of their whereabouts...
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04.02.2025 13:54 — 👍 73    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 1
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Country diary: An ancient oakwood of hydra-headed beasts | Mark Cocker Padley Gorge, Derbyshire: These trees have been coppiced and pollarded, so that the whole sense of an oak as a sky-seeking organism is gone

In today's @theguardian.com country diary, Mark Cocker walks round a copse of oaks, the like of which he's never seen before.

#naturewriting #countrydiary

01.02.2025 09:55 — 👍 60    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0
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Country diary: A bird that had existed only in my imagination becomes vividly real | Nic Wilson Bramfield, Hertfordshire: My long-unanswered prayers to see the elusive hawfinch are finally rewarded in a churchyard

In today's @theguardian.com country diary, I'm off to church in search of a fictional bird...

#countrydiary #naturewriting #UKBirding

03.02.2025 07:53 — 👍 93    🔁 11    💬 12    📌 3
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Country diary: Gadding about on the river | Nic Wilson Hitchin, Hertfordshire: Is it a mallard, is it a gadwall? It appears that one of this fine, loved-up pair of ducks is a bit of both

In my @theguardian.com country diary today, I come across a most unexpected bird on the local chalk stream & wonder if spring will bring a flotilla of Brewer's Ducklings. #countrydiary #naturewriting

06.01.2025 07:37 — 👍 72    🔁 17    💬 6    📌 4
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My Winter Exhibition 2024 starts today.

Browse over 40 recent watercolours online. Categories include swifts, waders and garden/small birds.
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29.11.2024 16:43 — 👍 74    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 1

Love the image of squirting Redwing

20.11.2024 08:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Spent today plant sphagnum moss on Denton Moor in the snow. Great place to experience the weather

19.11.2024 17:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Country diary: The last leaves are giving way to the first catkins | Phil Gates Wolsingham, Weardale: The day is fading fast and last night’s frost is still in the air. A stretch of hazel hedge provides a brief reminder that we don’t just live one season at a time

Today's Guardian country diary by Phil Gates is all about a holloway hedge in Weardale. I love our winter task of laying the hazel beside my local holloway with the rest of the Wildlife Trust volunteers. On a sunny February afternoon, there's nowhere I'd rather be. #naturewriting

15.11.2024 10:10 — 👍 54    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

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