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Monday, 29 June 2009

Puffin good time at Bempton

Posted by lucindaking

'Wow' and 'amazing' are words often over used, but last Wednesday I couldn't stop them from continually spilling out of my mouth in my excitment at seeing so many seabirds and their fluffy chicks. You see I was at our Bempton Cliffs...

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Wednesday, 10 June 2009

A walk on the wild side

Posted by katiefuller

Like so many other people, my interest in birds stems from watching them in my village garden when I was a kid. I spent hours and hours glued to the window, seeing what was coming and going. I hung feeders on the washing line, much to my mum's annoyance....

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Thursday, 4 June 2009

Screaming for help?

Posted by lucindaking

The beautiful sunny weather we've been having has seen me out in my garden even more than usual. In-between planting out some green beans and thinning the lettuce, it was brilliant to hear the noisy wren from over the fence, the starlings pinging...

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Tuesday, 26 May 2009

Ladies on the move

Posted by katiefuller

If you were out and about over the weekend, maybe you'll have noticed something unusual going on. No, I wasn't thinking of the unusually good bank holiday weekend weather that many of us enjoyed (though that was nice). Or the resulting sunburned...

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Wednesday, 13 May 2009

Just add water for wildlife

Posted by katiefuller

It's almost a year since we dug a pond in our garden - with the wholehearted blessing of our conservation-friendly landlord. What a year it's been. I only wish I'd done it earlier. There was hard work initially, when we dug a hole measuring...

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