carry on courting (26/5/23)

aside it’s both fascinating and funny watching eiders as they carry on courting, when the males, as usual, chase the …

of cliffs and choughs [extract] (14/5/23)

of cliffs of choughsof guillemots, razorbills,fulmars and gulls,cormorants, shag,kittiwake, puffin,a raven misbehavin’a lighthouse perchedon the edge of the worldwatching and …

scratching an itching (24/4/23)

aside I saw my first house martins and swallows of the year today, though I’m sure they’ve been here a …

saintly does it (18/4/23)

aside St David, or Dewi Sant, was born around  AD 500 and died roughly 589, supposedly the 1st March, now …

snow ants (10/3/23)

a-side snow, snow, snow, woke in the middle of last night freezing, put another duvet on, woke again still cold, …

snow-scathed (9/3/23)

a-side flurries of snow not sticking, flurries of snow now sticking, layering fields, landing on leaves, whitening greens and greys …