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Sunday, 4 September 2016

insert phrase about the irony of something that catches fish getting caught in a net

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Prismatic beauty. Light scatters across spangled crown and flows down into an azure blaze that, upon turning, cools to a mint spray. In sha...
Wednesday, 24 August 2016

spring again

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A bird appears. Silky smooth and dark like chocolate in the enveloping shadow cast by the aspens on the other side of the drove. It...
Saturday, 20 August 2016

reason to wander

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I've been busy with lots of painting for various bird reports recently, and that has meant I haven't allowed myself time off to tak...
Monday, 27 June 2016

The Great Pretender

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"Lost in Sound" Tony Fulford recorded some beautiful song from a Marsh Warbler that took up short residence in the Ely10 earlier o...
Sunday, 19 June 2016

englands dreaming

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The waking marsh was quiet and tension-filled. Just a few godwits stood like marble statues in the silverwater. Then, as the red sun rose, g...
Saturday, 18 June 2016

Another Velvet Morning

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  Following a week away with a couple of days around Fort William looking at Chequered Skippers I returned to the Fen to a report of a ...

Lost in Sound

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At the very tail end of May, Mark Welch organises the Ely10 birders away from an evening in the pub and towards the forest.  For several yea...
Monday, 30 May 2016

Wild,wild,wild, go re-wild in the country.....

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This last week I've been down on a farm. This is a farm. No, seriously, this is a farm. Look- this almost looks ...
Friday, 27 May 2016

Barden Garden

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  Another jaunt to the north. This time with Ben to celebrate honorary Ely10er, Rich Baine's 50th birthday at Barden in the Yorkshi...
Wednesday, 25 May 2016

A magical fifteen minutes at Wicken

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I've never really rated Wicken Fen for a bit of quick and dirty birding; I know there's plenty of you have the time to look for it b...
Friday, 20 May 2016

That ol' Wicken May Magic

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It's debatable whether there's such a thing as a truly bad day's birding, but undoubtedly some days are better than others. This...
Sunday, 15 May 2016

The Green, Green Grass of Home

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A day spent around the homelands, the annual spring ElyWildspace Bird Race as a starting point.  The early morning saw lovely weather with ...