Dark water, first leaves, drifting lily pads, and birds moving quietly through the edges of the frame. Felt like spring arriving in layers rather than all at once.

#PhotoDiary #WildlifePhotography #EarlySpring #CountryParkLake #NatureWriting #Photography

Two hours from home to stare at a similar view, only this one belongs to someone else. We leave our mountains just to go looking for a fresh perspective. Carving from peak to peak until Monday. Suddenly I feel—breathless. Ready for new challenges again.
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4.30am:
A Barn Owl, ghostly white and uttering a ghastly cry in the pitch-black dark, is answered minutes later by the sweet trill of a Robin.

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(Not sure why I saved this to my Drafts instead of posting it - possibly wasn't fully awake!)

Crunchy plums? I know them well, alas. Sharing the crop with plum moths in today's @theguardian.com country street by Clare Stares. #naturewriting #countrydiary

Against the grey, overcast sky
Two Red Kite circle endlessly,
From a tree a Jay calls raucously,
While a pair of Crows comment noisily,
And a Magpie rattles insistently.

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6am and out
in the cool, damp dark
a Robin starts its ticking,
then a second joins in.
Moments later, a third
sends forth a burst
of bright song. And just like that,
the dawn chorus has begun.

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stonefactionbirding2014.blogspot.com/2026/09/1568...

Into September...

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My latest blog of the Wild Side of Beth Chatto Gardens...
www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/the-wild-sid...

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Along the hedgerow walk, a brown cow, an ivy capped way stone and bryony skeins hung as every autumn. #naturewriting

Anyone here from #Substack? Any advice for sharing Substack posts to Bluesky audience?

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"Same time last year
On the bank, the Banyan's hanging roots
Kissed the river's deluge."

Read the full poem👇

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Nine Red Kites
circling, soaring,
floating, swooping,
twisting, diving:
Brownian Motion
in bird form.

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A vintage tractor and a farming wedding in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Andrea Meanwell.

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A cold blue sky,
with pink sunrise clouds,
and the lonely call
of a Buzzard passes o'erhead.

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Out of the cold dark
An Owl barks:
A Tawny is on the hunt.

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Not the migrant I was expecting...

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Five Red Kite soar and circle,
then twist and fall,
swooping down,
before soaring up again.
And from the treetops,
two Carrion Crow call.

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The Corvids are up in arms/wings:
two Carrion Crow are shouting vehemently,
while a Jay screeches emphatically,
and a pair of Magpie rattle ominously.
The cause?
A Red Kite is soaring high above them all.

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Today's @theguardian.com country diary by Michael White on a batty crop of willows.

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