Birds/Words: Greenery; Landfill; Ground Work (ed); Four Fields; The Running Sky; The Poetry of Birds (ed). Next: Home Scars. At @timdee1 on Instagram more now.
'Neon ping pong...Parakeets are quicker than thought and louder than bombs. Ad hoc, de-mobbed. Scalextric scooters. Postmodern morphs. Bourgeois bondage revolutionaries...'
Throughout 2024, @TimDee4 held daily meetings with a noisy green alien species buff.ly/41TO7Cq
ALT Parakeet, mid-flight, making for a treetop against a cloudy grey sky
A migrant male eastern samamisicus redstart at Lake Langano Ethiopia / due later in Serbia or across the Drina in Bosnia or in a linden behind the beach hut that Chekhov had at Gurzuf in the Crimea. Heartbeat of my Greenery:
This extraordinary drama unfolded 15 minutes from the house. My Guardian diary on hobbies, on oak eggars, on miracles - free range and locally sourced. theguardian.com/environment/…
It takes a whole universe to make one small black bird.
ONE MIDSUMMER'S DAY by 'one of our greatest living naturalists' (Spectator) @MarkCocker2 is out today in paperback!
Gulls I think - large white hyperborean types (herring and g b b gull) that were until the mid C20th unfamiliar inland even to naturalists like Gilbert White and John Clare.
Am still keen to hear from more patch birders, particularly those from less well represented groups e.g. female, age <40 etc. Am also looking for people fairly new to patch birding. If you're interested, get in touch either via DM or through the contact form on the website.
Are you a patch birder in the UK? Would you like to participate in a research project about patch birding? The project focuses on environmental change, well-being, low-carbon birding, and new technologies. Find out more here. @PatchBirding@BirdingClimateandrewjwhitehouse.wordpress.…