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February 8, 2017 5:35 AM
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There's nothing dull about dunnocks on Wenlock Edge by Paul Evans  

There's nothing dull about dunnocks on Wenlock Edge by Paul Evans   | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
Country diary: Wenlock Edge With its riotous sex life and quick, edgy, movements, the hedge sparrow is like a little ticking bomb
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January 11, 2017 2:10 PM
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The tiny world in a rotten post top: Guardian Country Diary by Paul Evans  

The tiny world in a rotten post top: Guardian Country Diary by Paul Evans   | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
Country diary: Wenlock Edge, Shropshire In this miniature pool had fallen a gunk of seeds and leaves, and lawns of green algae had spread
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December 20, 2016 3:59 AM
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Exquisite New #Cut #Feather Shadowbox Artworks by Chris Maynard. #art

Exquisite New #Cut #Feather Shadowbox Artworks by Chris Maynard. #art | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
We've long been fans of Olympia, Washington-based artist Chris Maynard (previously) who assembles shadowboxes of cut feathers depicting the silhouettes of birds as they sing, perch, and swoop across the canvas. With a background in both biology and ecology the artist recalls working with feathers as
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November 16, 2016 3:45 PM
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Where the wild things are Times Literary Supplement 

Where the wild things are Times Literary Supplement  | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
Three approaches to experiencing nature at the local level, which is ‘magical for those who have the eyes to see’
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October 26, 2016 4:44 PM
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No hiding place for a stranded squab

No hiding place for a stranded squab | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
Country diary: Wenlock Edge, Shropshire This scratty bundle feigning invisibility generates an anxiety that permeates a bright autumn morning
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October 12, 2016 2:22 PM
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Blood and bandages: a healer in the hedgerow

Blood and bandages: a healer in the hedgerow | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
Country dairy: Wenlock Edge, Shropshire Even though the woundwort has lost its place in the pharmacy, bees visit these late flowers for the nectar tucked inside them
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July 26, 2016 3:47 AM
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Rain Sideways by Paul Evans

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"The storm is with us. Standing in the dunes in the indifferent lash of rain sideways feels like being part of a community"
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March 25, 2016 7:06 AM
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Daffodil Extract from Herbaceous by Paul Evans 

Daffodil Extract from Herbaceous by Paul Evans  | Nature Flash | Scoop.it

'Down in Dymock, on the red clay of Severn Vale,

the daffodils packed in boxes went to London on

the train and poets went to War. Neither came back'.

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February 24, 2016 5:42 AM
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The gothic charm of cormorants

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Country Diary: Wenlock Edge In recent years these diving fish-hunters have become ubiquitous in freshwater lakes and rivers
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November 16, 2015 4:18 PM
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Blackbirds by Paul Evans

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Blackbirds 

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October 14, 2015 2:52 PM
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Haws light way for the worm hunters | Environment | The Guardian

Haws light way for the worm hunters | Environment | The Guardian | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
Country Diary: Wenlock Edge, Shropshire Maybe 50 buzzards were staring into the earth, charming worms up by the power of will
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September 11, 2015 4:08 PM
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Kronking ravens and flower oracles – our natural barometers?

Kronking ravens and flower oracles – our natural barometers? | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
Country Diary: Wenlock Edge, Shropshire As I peer into the yarrow and gentians, thinking about changes in this strange season, a raven flies over - then the raindrops fall
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March 1, 2017 6:01 AM
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Wenlock Edge: Guardian Country Diary, Simplicity and symbolism in flowers and poems by @DrPaulEvans 

Wenlock Edge: Guardian Country Diary, Simplicity and symbolism in flowers and poems by @DrPaulEvans  | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
Country diary: Wenlock Edge Daisy – daes eage, day’s-eye – a wonderfully simple poetry that has become a complicated symbolic chain-link of love, innocence and death
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February 1, 2017 1:57 PM
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These squirrels are not native. So what? 

These squirrels are not native. So what?  | Nature Flash | Scoop.it

'This sycamore isn’t native either, and neither are the people who planted them, or who look at them now..'

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December 28, 2016 2:03 PM
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Rusty limes frozen in an arrested autumn, last 2016 Guardian Country Diary - Wenlock Edge by Paul Evans & photographs by Maria Nunzia @Varvera 2

Rusty limes frozen in an arrested autumn, last 2016 Guardian Country Diary - Wenlock Edge by Paul Evans & photographs by Maria Nunzia @Varvera 2 | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
Country diary: Wenlock Edge, Shropshire On a closer look, the trees are not still holding leaves at all but are full of bracts and seeds

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November 23, 2016 3:40 AM
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All the colours of a November evening on Wenlock Edge Guardian Country Diary by Paul Evans  

All the colours of a November evening on Wenlock Edge Guardian Country Diary by Paul Evans   | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
Country diary: Wenlock Edge, Shropshire There is something about the combination of sky-blue, red and black that fascinates me – I don’t understand why
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November 2, 2016 12:56 PM
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The harlequin ladybird is a clever little devil

The harlequin ladybird is a clever little devil | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
Country diary: Wenlock Edge, Shropshire Used to control crop pests, this beetle also has a frightening appetite for other ladybirds and the eggs of butterflies
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October 16, 2016 8:15 AM
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At Lackford Lakes with
Melissa Harrison, Suffolk Festival of Idea.   

At Lackford Lakes with<br/>Melissa Harrison, Suffolk Festival of Idea.    | Nature Flash | Scoop.it

'Hosting the event in a bird hide flavored it with a sense of theater. It brought people into a building built into a landscape that aimed to camouflage, rendering them invisible to the wildlife outside.

 

On that day the clapping of wings was drowned out by the clapping of hands, the cries of wading birds became woven into the threads of poetic words that chased one another out of the mouths of poets and story-tellers'.  

 

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August 17, 2016 1:10 PM
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What's New on my website, travel photography by Maria Nunzia, Caernarfon, Harlech, Hoo Peninsula and latest BBC Radio 4 Feature, The River

What's New on my website, travel photography by Maria Nunzia, Caernarfon, Harlech, Hoo Peninsula and latest BBC Radio 4 Feature, The River | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
Paul Evans Guardian Country Diary, books, writings,videos, poetry, BBC radio programmes and plays.

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June 1, 2016 11:51 AM
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Life-affirming flash of colour in the hedgerow

Life-affirming flash of colour in the hedgerow | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
Country diary: Wenlock Edge, Shropshire These shocking pink perennials are an antidote to a kind of sobriety that prevails in much writing about the natural world
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February 27, 2016 4:43 PM
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Monstrous Thing

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Dark, dangerous, repulsive ...a being thrown up from the deep...a monstrous thing... paulevanswenlockedge.com/#!monstrous-th… #books pic.twitter.com/MRqXdXWKJD


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December 10, 2015 4:36 AM
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Paul Evans @DrPaulEvans1 Guardian Country Diary Wenlock Edge: Song after the storm

Paul Evans @DrPaulEvans1 Guardian Country Diary Wenlock Edge: Song after the storm | Nature Flash | Scoop.it

The robin materialises from a point in the ground where the storm disappeared. Out of all the thrashing rain and screaming winds, the bird stands, in the conspicuous, red-breasted, defiance of the season’s greetings card pose and begins to sing.

 

Storm Desmond, which newspaper headlines have called the wildest of all, seems to have largely passed through, although there are still errant gusts and cat-spits of rain.

 

“After a storm there must be a calm,” sang Desmond Dekker. It’s not calm yet. At the coat-flapping edges of the gale we escaped the worst of the flooding and wind damage that hit the north. But we have not come out of it unscathed. Flood barriers have been erected on the river towns, and the Severn flashes across fields where swans and geese gather for the event.

 


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November 11, 2015 4:23 PM
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Leaves turning fiery like metal blades in a forge

Leaves turning fiery like metal blades in a forge | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
Country Diary Wenlock Edge, Shropshire Autumn’s falling leaves are full of meaning: leaving and loss, mortality and decay
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September 15, 2015 5:58 PM
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Paul Evans: We must all realise why botany and Kew Gardens really matter | Comment | London Evening Standard

Paul Evans: We must all realise why botany and Kew Gardens really matter | Comment | London Evening Standard | Nature Flash | Scoop.it
As a writer, gardener and conservationist, I am fascinated by the way our attitudes to wild and cultivated plants shape the world we live in. Much of what I’ve learned about that I’ve discovered from botanical gardens — and Kew is the greatest of these.  Kew is more than a venerable historic institution; it is a living thing, a community of plants and people that has grown through the centuries. Kew tells us about the past (inglorious though some of its stories are) and it is telling us about our future, too.

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