There is no winner in Blob. There is only the loser - ‘Blob-head’.

New words about life on the Farne Islands over on my substack! Featuring our very own
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social 🐧

open.substack.com/pub/emwitcut...

#NatureWriting #FarneIslands #Seabird

There is no winner in Blob. There is only the loser - ‘Blob-head’.

New words about life on the Farne Islands over on my substack! Featuring our very own
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social 🐧

open.substack.com/pub/emwitcut...

#NatureWriting #FarneIslands #Seabird

Lunchtime reading the latest @btobirds.bsky.social News, including a great interview with one of my nature heroes (and all-round lovely person), Dr Steph Tyler.

Poems for this befuddling in-between time
#BetwixtmasBirds #NatureWriting

Poems for this befuddling in-between time
#BetwixtmasBirds #NatureWriting

Poems for this befuddling in-between time
#BetwixtmasBirds #NatureWriting

Poems for this befuddling in-between time
#BetwixtmasBirds #NatureWriting

Regulus regulus Highlighter crown. Yellow for a princess, orange for her prince, fluffed-up monarch in miniature, glowering goldcrest. Caught, capsized, topsy-turvy-ed by teasel, jailed for greed for that one-more seed.

Poems for this befuddling in-between time
#BetwixtmasBirds #NatureWriting

Essential reading for any Christmas Eve worth its salt 🎅 Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! 🎄📚 #Bookvent #ChristmasReads #HolidayTraditions #LiteraryMagic #WritersOfInstagram #ReadersOfInstagram #FestiveReads #Bookvent2025 #ChristmasEve #TheNightBeforeChristmas

'Tis the season to cozy up with your to-read pile! 📚🎅 What's on yours? Here's mine:

🎄 The Winter Book - Tove Jansson
🎄 The Rose Field - Philip Pullman
🎄 Ness - Robert MacFarlane & Stanley Donwood
🎄 The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
🎄 The Bedlam Stacks - Natasha Pulley

#WinterReads

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos and artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is my contribution; a Puffin & Razorbill on Isle of May #SuperSeabirdSunday

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🐉 Among the Burning Flowers
🌹 A Dance of Lies
🔵The Great When
🌟 As Many Souls as Stars
👻 Aftertaste
🔥 Dawn of the Firebird

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Basket of festive snippings- holly, ivy & a few haw berries

Had a potter up the lane for some Christmassing. Finches & fieldfare twittering & chattering in the gully by the sheepwash, fresh signs of badger & last night’s fox, water glinting off the lane & dripping purple off the alders. Slowly slowly getting back out into the world.

🎉 Happy Birthday to me! Celebrating with a signed copy of Philip Pullman's "The Rose Field". Lyra was my hero as a teen—anyone else nervous to finish her journey? Let's connect, fellow writers and readers, and share our love for storytelling. Thanks, Philip Pullman, for Lyra! 📚✨ #BookLovers #Writing

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I'd like to chat to one or two people, ideally women (I've already talked to a load of men) who've got into the Merlin app for identifying birdsong this year. For a nice positive story. Please drop me a line, thank you!