Tag: Nature.
The Stresemann’s Bristlefront
The Bahama Nuthatch
When Hurricane Matthew struck the island of Grand Bahama in 2016, the nuthatch disappeared, and some feared it was extinct. In 2018, researchers rediscovered the bird.
» Read moreA View From the Top
Look through any window. I live in a new house. two-up, two-down, on the periphery of a market town. The door knocker is made of brass and all the casements have mullioned glass. From the upper window I can see distant hills and a verdant meadow full of daffodils. I wonder if those jonquils could be
» Read moreBlack Cats
Summer Regrets.
Apple Tree.
The Rain Came In.
Calling in the Crows
Written years ago on my relocation to the city from the sanctuary of my country retreat in Aberdeenshire and missing my crows. Hear my voice in your cold dark dawn frosty branches and purple streaked sky. Awake! rouse yourselves! heads removed from covering wing. Come now, to this small city dwelling. Fly above the cliffs and the barren cornfields, majestic
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