Drawn, time and again, to the Dorset Frome and its floodplains - for water, nature, people. A rusty botanist.
Dorset and beyond
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Today we celebrate #WorldWetlandsDay from the Dorset Frome and its floodplains.
Join us to explore the river, its braids, meanders and backwaters, ponds, scrapes and soggy margins, flood meadows and veteran trees.
This year's theme is 'wetlands and human wellbeing'.
Distant wetlands. Pyramidal Orchids in full swing on Portland for this week's celebration of #wildflowerhour from Dorset.
@wildflower_hour @BSBIbotany
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We are thrilled to announce our 2024 #ConservationWriting Longlist for The Wainwright Prize.
Congratulations to all our wonderful longlisted authors! ✏️🌱
#WainwrightPrize
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A stunning & deeply profound review of @KathleenJamie’s Cairn for @tweetbytheriver from @RedRiverCroft … ‘slim and light, but I stagger under its heft.’ It’s an extraordinary book in its lived arc. Deeply affecting in its ‘ordinariness’ Loved this review, & the book also …
What an honour & privilege to review 'Cairn' by Kathleen Jamie, one of Scotland's greatest living writers, for @tweetbytheriver. It's truly beautiful & thought-provoking. For me, its her best yet. Read the full review here: caughtbytheriver.net/2024/07…
@SortofBooks @KathleenJamie
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In mid July #BridportSwiftTown is organising a Big Swift Count to get a better idea of how many swifts nest, breed & feed in Bridport. To take part email: [email protected] 💚 Here are a few facts about swifts about this amazing bird.
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What an honour & privilege to review 'Cairn' by Kathleen Jamie, one of Scotland's greatest living writers, for @tweetbytheriver. It's truly beautiful & thought-provoking. For me, its her best yet. Read the full review here: caughtbytheriver.net/2024/07…
@SortofBooks @KathleenJamie
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#SwiftAwarenessWeek in Bridport began with swift-inspired drawing workshop - moving, mark-making, flying all over @BridportYcc. Many more free creative events to come: eventbrite.co.uk/organizatio……
@Dorset_NL
@DorsetWildlife
@Natures_Voice
@westdorsetwild
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There was no #pond here 20 months ago. This ancient #ghostpingo was buried beneath a pig field! Here it is now. Vibrant with rarities. The most successful form of ecological restoration imaginable!!! The work of @uclponds @hburningham @tim_holt_wilson @carlsayerUCL @NorfolkWT
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THOROUGHLY enjoying @DrMJWarren's thread on #birdsandplace names. We had a fabulous walk last summer discussing this & so much more! I learnt a lot! #thecuckooslea
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☀️SWIFT SUMMER ☀️- FREE EVENTS IN BRIDPORT
Adrian's been hard at work curating a whole summer of amazing #swift themed events for #BridportSwiftTown.
Just scan the QR code to book your place and join the new Facebook group.
Please can you RT and help us spread the word.🙏
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Linen patchwork dyed with hawthorn leaves, gorse, acorn and weld, with printed elements. One from a couple of summers ago.
Blue Bridge, this morning. With Goldfinch, Grey Wagtail, Blackcap, Chiffchaff and others singing nearby.
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Finishing the top binding to a hazel hurdle~adding in a rod to every upright secures the top and adds a nice twist appearance at the same time.
Joins in to a little cleft chestnut pale picket fence I did last week. Hard to imagine this was once a hideous line of leylandii.
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Ah me. Us. What we’ve extinguished. A whole population of house martins in this village. Nest cup marks watermarked on so many of the houses still; a ghost village of thousands. Thumbprints of our guilt. Still hundreds when we came here, all gone in the last decades 1/2
And breathe in the sea air.
Celebrating the week's #wildflowerhour without a #stinkyplant in sight!!
📷 Trefin, Pembrokeshire
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Stands up and applauds:
Ten weeks from hatching to taking on a 10,000+km migration route, weighing 15gm. Remarkable.
"They too are migrants and further totems of our planet’s unfathomable grandeur and unity."
Wonderful writing on Pied Flycatchers by @MarkCocker2 in @GdnCountryDiary. Thank you.
Country diary: These summer migrants are remarkable | Mark Cocker theguardian.com/environment/…