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Scent world
Two colleagues and I are trying to write a paper that is both multispecies and embodied. I know. Don't ask. I am not sure how we will...

Crone
May 132 min read
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Seldom seen, but all around
If I sit still enough, and downwind, the muntjacs will go about their business quite happily. A whiff of human stink, and they are on the...

Crone
May 122 min read
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It's all about socialising
The cherry in my garden is some cultivar who has lovely blossoms but no fruit, so I suppose that the tree must be sterile... or...

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May 112 min read
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Resurrection
Despite Dutch Elm Disease, there are a few elms around the reserve. There is one large one and, in the area around Kairos, many...

Crone
May 102 min read
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The brave ones
Blue tits are successful creatures. Tiny as they are, they have great hearts and impressive intellect. They, of course, were the birds...

Crone
May 91 min read
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Babies
I have written a lot about how the blackbirds have been upset about the cat and the magpies. Well, I think their home proved too unsafe...

Crone
May 81 min read
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Mother and grave
A friend had told me that she'd been at a seminar where the subject of communicating with trees had come up and the impression was that...

Crone
May 72 min read
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Pragmatism
This is from a piece on Aeon by Michael Bacon : Pragmatism is the United States’ most important contribution to philosophy, emerging in...

Crone
May 63 min read
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The mining bee
Every time I sit with an oak, from maybe a month ago if not longer, a big bee has come buzzing around me. It has been remarkable. Every...

Crone
May 51 min read
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Garden life and times
This morning I saw Mr and Mrs plus one of the babies. These photos were taken the day before, when Tane took a break from parenting. As...

Crone
May 41 min read
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The on-going wonder
These walks just keep me on the right side of my inner borderline. But you know, both sides of the borderline are existing parts of the...

Crone
May 31 min read
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Was it due to the poem?
CC sent me a poem she had written which I loved, and so I have her permission to post it here. THE HARE’S TALE The snowshoe hare reads...

Crone
May 22 min read
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Other minds
Ask me, and I'll tell you that diversity matters. Divergence matters. Celebrate heterogeneity! Celebrate difference! Celebrate the wild...

Crone
May 12 min read
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Light and shade
I wanted to show the opening of oak leaves - the bud opens into a floret of leaves and little flowers. That's a birth and here a death. A...

Crone
Apr 301 min read
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Father and child!
A delight to see two robin chicks following Tane into the back lilac, where he fed them from the special feeder. I am pretty sure there...

Crone
Apr 291 min read
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Explaining and understanding
I think the distinction that is made between explaining and understanding in these long quotes from "that Bortoft book" are interesting...

Crone
Apr 283 min read
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No dragons
But a certain amount of gore on this St George's Day stroll. Also some interesting trees. Yes, that's right: more interesting trees. And,...

Crone
Apr 271 min read
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The smart set
This would be a perfect photograph if I hadn't cut his feet off. He does not look quite so elegant here. She still seems a rather calmer...

Crone
Apr 261 min read
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Relief
The very next day, Tane was back on two feet. I had been anxious that the food on the ground was dangerous, or perceived to be in a...

Crone
Apr 251 min read
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Anxiety
As if the money worries weren't enough, Tane's injured. He's only using one leg. I had wondered while he was flickering his wings a lot:...

Crone
Apr 241 min read
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