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Love?
On the same day as I visited the Mother Oak, I had better access than usual to jays. Which made me very happy. Such beautiful birds! the...

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Mar 141 min read
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Back to the Mother Oak
I met this tree just after I destroyed my last car in a ford and was feeling pretty shit. It was summer and the tree was incredible. i...

Crone
Mar 132 min read
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At the end of the day
I don't know what to say. I mean, really: I don't know what to say. I don't know who I am, what I'm doing, what I'm going to do, what I...

Crone
Mar 121 min read
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Garden goings on
Thankfully, I have had the occasions few minutes with Tane. I've heard that already there are reports of baby robins and blackbirds, I'm...

Crone
Mar 111 min read
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Beetle runes
Just look at this!!! The bark has decomposed and the wood shows the tunnels of bark beetles. Is this not exquisite? But it's not only...

Crone
Mar 101 min read
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Barking mad
Don't you think these images would make a lovely coffee table book? I have literally hundreds of them. It may not surprise you to read...

Crone
Mar 91 min read
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Low light
We've had a run of sunny days. Next door's hawthorn has some flowers. There is ice on the birds' water saucers in the mornings, but the...

Crone
Mar 81 min read
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Run away!!
That is, essentially, what they do. You know, I just want to tell them I'm vegan and opposed to all forms of hunting... but there remains...

Crone
Mar 71 min read
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Beauty and the beast
I guess this is kind of related to the idea of love and death. Anyway, the starling's shimmer always stuns me - as does the iridescence...

Crone
Mar 61 min read
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The oddities
So, the blue tits aren't so very odd. The dunnocks are - with their "semaphore" wing flirtation. And the robins... I can't work out...

Crone
Mar 51 min read
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Thinking in place
There's something about my mood of anxiety and depression that leads me to want to be outdoors and specifically to visit Kairos. So I...

Crone
Mar 41 min read
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City light
The other day I was trying to explain to my brother how I love London. The buildings, theatres, galleries, the restaurants and the parks,...

Crone
Mar 31 min read
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Owl flight
A raven one day, an owl the next. The creatures of night, darkness, death, and wisdom. This was truly magical. I caught sight of a large...

Crone
Mar 21 min read
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Under the sequoia
I have already mentioned the visit to the old church. While I was there, I sat under the sequoia and let things happen. And what happened...

Crone
Mar 11 min read
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At home in the ruins
A somewhat disturbing find at the ruined church. Someone had positioned stones fallen from the wall to make a kind of enclosed altar for...

Crone
Feb 281 min read
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Storm undoing
Check out Tane with his cool windblown look! Yes, it was stormy - as you will see... hear... from the video in a moment. I've been...

Crone
Feb 271 min read
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Seeing the wood and the trees
...or vice versa. And, yes, I appreciate the picture doesn't immediately fit the bill... it's just funny that the viewing area is...

Crone
Feb 261 min read
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The road to love isn't easy
So is Tane paired up with Mottled Breast? For a few days, I saw this one often and saw Tane with another robin - it was hard to tell if...

Crone
Feb 251 min read
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City limits
I took a long walk in London... passing through Primrose Hill, Regent's Park and Green Park as well as through districts of housing and...

Crone
Feb 242 min read
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Bitch
Look, the dunnock is not a bitch, but that attention-grabbing headline still has some relevance to the wee hedge sparrows. Emily at work...

Crone
Feb 232 min read
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