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Goosander and Grebe
IT’S GOOD to return and re-walk the same route at this time of year as there are changes daily in plant and bird life. The glossy leaves of Bluebell are coming up in the woods around Newmillerdam and...
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Diving and Dabbling
IT’S A COUPLE of weeks since we last managed a country walk so we’re glad to be back at Newmillerdam where I sketched the multiple trunks of this Ash on the corner of the Barnsley Road by the old...
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Fresh Page
THE START OF THE NEW YEAR feels like opening a new sketchbook; a fresh white page to fill with whatever takes my interest. This year I’m going to be focussing on the Yorkshire Dales because I’ve just...
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First Warbler
Following the Aire into Leeds, we walk through a snow shower but as it clears and the sun returns we see our first warbler (chiff chaff or willow), just flown in from Africa, checking out the branches...
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Goosanders
Horbury Bridge, 2.55 p.m.; A female goosander leads her seven young up the rapids at the foot of the old weir. As we watch the whole family disappears from view, giving the impression that mother and...
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