The Curlew: a call like the wind and a cloak of woven shadows.
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Introducing the final habitat of the series: Saltmarshes 🌿
Salt-tolerant plants thrive here to create one of the Severn Estuary’s most important and extensive habitats — the largest area of saltmarsh in the south and southwest of the UK.
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Next up in our habitat series… Seagrass 🌿🌊
More habitats are on the way, look out for the next post early next week 👀
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Kicking off our new habitat series with Subtidal Sandbanks 🌊✨
Look out for the next habitat in the series later this week 👀
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🕊️ Up next in our overwintering bird series: the White-fronted Goose!
Keep watching this space for more winter visitors from across the UK.
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🕊️ Meet the Dunlin, a tiny wader that winters along the Severn every year from Scandinavia and Russia.
Stay tuned for more winter bird highlights in our series!
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🕊️ Our next overwintering bird spotlight: the Redshank!
Keep an eye out for more species in our winter bird series!
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Another day, another wander...
...before I have to endure some forced socialising and adulting tomorrow.
Anyway, here's what my camera captured today.
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Some more early morning estuary wanderings. . .
. . . And yet more things washed up.
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Page from Emersyn Blake and the Stalked Jellyfish with heart surrounding mother and baby manatee, fish families, and father and baby seahorse with text The “nursery of the sea” it is called with affection, in its calm, shallow waters baby creatures find protection.
One of my absolute favorite pages in the new Emersyn Blake and the Stalked Jellyfish #PB 🥰
In case you didn’t know @JillDuBois22 is an amazing illustrator!💕
Get your copy and see for yourself at collazocove.com
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