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Let’s Go Fly a Kite
Someone had mentioned on Twitter that a Red Kite had been spotted a few miles from here several days ago. I don’t know much about Kites, but the local Buzzards seems to have a wide ranging territory, so I’d hoped to take a walk in that general direction at some point, to see if I could…
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30 Days Wild – 4th May
Walking from the city centre, you pass a lot of busy roads with the inevitable traffic jams. But hidden away in a side road, you can find some fantastically bright tree blossom. This particular tree caught the sunlight as we walked past, and as it’s on a particularly steep hill, it was a good excuse to stop and admire the tree blossom…
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30 Days Wild – 30th April
Another cloudscape for today – this one was a particularly dark cloud that was heading from the north west. No sooner had we spotted the cloud, there was a very bright flash of lightning and an incredibly loud rumble of thunder. The local nesting birds seemed to take it all in their stride, but we were…
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30 Days Wild – day 1 (14/4)
#30dayswild has been organised by the Wildlife Trusts, to try and get as many people connecting with nature during the month of June. To see if I can achieve blogging about that every day for a month, I decided to have a test run starting today! 14th April I heard an bird outside that I didn’t…