Sue Harrison
skootysue.bsky.social
Sue Harrison
@skootysue.bsky.social
Birds, plants, nature writing, environmental art - in fact anything to do with ‘place’
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A #FoxoftheDay in words! Town fox-country fox: hard to ignore right now, foxes pique the senses as they go a 'woo-oo-ooing'; musky notes of singed fur, sandalwood, spice & hawthorn flowers abound, though I keep quiet on the delicate matter of their whereabouts...
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Country diary: Foxes are seeking mates. And the evidence is everywhere | Nicola Chester
Newbury, Berkshire: From tracks in the snow to musky scent markings to vixens screaming in the night, it is hard to ignore fox mating season
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February 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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In today's @theguardian.com country diary, Mark Cocker walks round a copse of oaks, the like of which he's never seen before.

#naturewriting #countrydiary
Country diary: An ancient oakwood of hydra-headed beasts | Mark Cocker
Padley Gorge, Derbyshire: These trees have been coppiced and pollarded, so that the whole sense of an oak as a sky-seeking organism is gone
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February 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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In today's @theguardian.com country diary, I'm off to church in search of a fictional bird...

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Country diary: A bird that had existed only in my imagination becomes vividly real | Nic Wilson
Bramfield, Hertfordshire: My long-unanswered prayers to see the elusive hawfinch are finally rewarded in a churchyard
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February 3, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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In my @theguardian.com country diary today, I come across a most unexpected bird on the local chalk stream & wonder if spring will bring a flotilla of Brewer's Ducklings. #countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: Gadding about on the river | Nic Wilson
Hitchin, Hertfordshire: Is it a mallard, is it a gadwall? It appears that one of this fine, loved-up pair of ducks is a bit of both
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January 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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My Winter Exhibition 2024 starts today.

Browse over 40 recent watercolours online. Categories include swifts, waders and garden/small birds.
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November 29, 2024 at 4:43 PM
Spent today plant sphagnum moss on Denton Moor in the snow. Great place to experience the weather
November 19, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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Today's Guardian country diary by Phil Gates is all about a holloway hedge in Weardale. I love our winter task of laying the hazel beside my local holloway with the rest of the Wildlife Trust volunteers. On a sunny February afternoon, there's nowhere I'd rather be. #naturewriting
Country diary: The last leaves are giving way to the first catkins | Phil Gates
Wolsingham, Weardale: The day is fading fast and last night’s frost is still in the air. A stretch of hazel hedge provides a brief reminder that we don’t just live one season at a time
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November 15, 2024 at 10:10 AM