all grief, all pain,
momentarily forgotten;
They are beautiful and fearless,
I wish I too could be so.

Starling Murmuration after Starlings in Winter by Mary Oliver

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#NatureWriting

like a flower opening,
my eye barely follows.

My imagination stretches
to its limits as I try
to understand
how and when they decide

which bird is leading
and which are the followers;
my mind soars
high into the blue sky,

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Star-feathered
chunks of small black birds,
whistle-squeaking into
the dawning day,

they flock together,
forming a murmuring mass,
whirling, swirling,
flowing and ebbing to and fro;

they dip, then they rise,
forming patterns which,

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Day 2 #DailyNature #JournalPrompts

Murmurs of the birds' wings.

My favourite birdnerd fact - murmuration is a poem in itself. Now, I always try to listen to them in the sky or else I might miss out on a quiet symphony of the air.

Leave your bird-words below:

#birder #Naturewriting #wings #words

Dealing with a TB scare on the farm in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Andrea Meanwell.

#countrydiary #naturewriting

Dieses Buch war so bewegend und obwohl es ~1835 ff. spielt, enthält es alle großen Emotionen unserer Zeit. Verzweiflung, Trauer, Zukunftsangst, Wut, aber auch Freundschaft, Verbundenheit und Hoffnung. Und man muss den Prota und seinen Riesenalk einfach lieben. 9/10 🌟

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A word & nature fueled day! Lovely to see people joining in with a new #dailynature challenge 🧡

I'm hosting a 1hr online writing workshop

'How to Hybrid-Haiku'
20th October
7pm
[Pay-what-you-can]

Where human bends with tree 🍂

Sign up below🔻

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In this month’s blog I reflect on the difference between knowing about a place from a map, and sitting on a wooden stile in the late afternoon sunshine with an old horse for company.
You can read it here: www.theconcisequill.com/blog
#ForestOfDean #NatureWriting #WritingCommunity #PlaceBasedWriting

Day 1 of the #DailyNature Journal Prompt calendar.

It's #NationalPoetryDay in the UK; how could I not talk about Mary Oliver?

'Don't you imagine the leaves dream now?'

Write below what you think the leaves were dreaming of...

#NatureWriting #Poetry #WordGames

Were I a leaf, my dream
would be to remain dangling
in the freshets of wind,
brushing the currents of the air,
remaining green and fresh, not fallen and golden.

-- A Reply to A Song for Autumn, Mary Oliver

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This month's 'A brief history of Bedfordshire in plants and animals' post focuses on the hedgehog. This was a really interesting one to research because it shows how and why our attitudes to wildlife can change.

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If, like me, you're not averse to learning a new word in the morning, step into the trees' world in today's aural @theguardian.com country diary by @derekniemann.bsky.social.

#naturewriting #countrydiary

Acabado, con sus defectos, que los tiene, me sigue pareciendo un imprescindible para los aficionados al #naturewriting, qué pena que no estén por aquí #lasdelosjardines del OldTwitter.

#libros

Fall(en) Finds

Soft green spiky Sweet Chestnuts,
Hard brown shiny Horse Chestnuts,
Tightly-closed brown Pinecones,
Black and white and grey Pigeon feathers,
Crunchy brown Beechmast,
And leaves of red and gold and brown.

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Planning presents for December? I've got signed & stamped copies of Land Beneath the Waves, one of BBC Wildlife's Best Books of 2025, in hardback & paperback.

Ideal for anyone who loves #naturewriting, #landscape, #countrydiary & for those living with #chronicillness

@summersdalebooks.bsky.social

30 September 2026 ~ chaplain.nyc/thoughts-for...

"...Liquid faith can mean receiving without possessing. I can learn from a tradition without claiming to represent it. I can practice something without having to adopt its entire worldview..."

#interfaith #naturewriting

returning like comets prediction,

the ignited evaporate for sleeps conviction.

Those green, turn crimson, before they go black,

It comforts me, to know, we all grow back.

🪶 Verse 3/3

#Autumn #Fall #NaturePoetry #Nature #NatureWriting #DailyNature #Leaf #Hibernate

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crunching like salted crisps,

disintegrating to dusted whisps,

supernova of the forest -

🪶 Verse 2/3

#Autumn #Fall #NaturePoetry #Nature #NatureWriting #DailyNature #Leaf #Hibernate

The cloths of wet fires litter the ground,

burning away summer with barely a sound

I hang them like shirts to dry in the wind

only to return and find their colours thinned;

🪶 Verse 1/3

#Autumn #Fall #NaturePoetry #Nature #NatureWriting #DailyNature #Leaf #Hibernate

Making the landscape more resilient to extreme weather events caused by climate breakdown in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Alexandra Pearce-Broomhead.

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