Hints and tips:
...A Bird in Winter by Louise Doughty Faber, £16.99, 368 pages...
...The patchwork of different heathers can also provide fodder for various birds. Grouse butts for driven shooting peek out of the heather at Abercairny; I’m told they are seldom used....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. It’s a memoir but also has lessons on how to become a writer....
...Tracy Hill’s charcoal drawing flows and stutters across a temporary wall as if a flock of birds had left the imprint of their flight....
...Mary, Stella, their brother James and half-sister Heather spent their formative years on the farm, first going there when their father, Paul McCartney, was in the midst of The Beatles’ split....
...Heather Webb, who leads the future farming division at the Duchy of Cornwall, is currently helping some 250 farmers navigate this transition....
...Buskqvist who run Lådfabriken, where I stayed another night, an upmarket four-room guest house charmingly created from a former fish crate factory, where you can sit in the “lighthouse” watching the sea birds...
...It’s a bird, it’s a plane! It’s . . . a flying taxi? A future full of “flying cars” is still in development, but the battle to dominate the industry is well under way, the FT reports....
...Be sure to keep an eye out for Cornwall’s national bird, the chough....
...How, for instance, do birds know how to migrate?”...
...This year, she is the subject of an excellent historical novel, whose title I translate from French: “I have the energy of a lioness in the body of a bird”, words of Rosa Bonheur herself....
...Rather than ocean plastic, it is a palimpsest of Atlantic wildlife: bird skulls, broken wings, seashells and deer bones strung with bladderwrack. The day feels stretched....
...There are tales of celebrated patissiers, Venetian watchtowers, political exiles, migrating birds, and benevolent shipowners....
...Nicola has added plants that the bees particularly like: especially lavender, heather and borage....
...We want people who come here to also be alive to creation: to see the stars, to hear the birds — like the swallows and the corncrakes which have just arrived.”...
...These views align perfectly with Roca’s, and English duo Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey’s work fits into this Beuysian spirit....
...In April and May, he and his team lead crack-of-dawn drives onto the moor to observe timid and endangered curlew chicks, and guests are invited to aid his keepers in the twice-annual rare-bird count....
...A year later, a bird appeared in the “Studio” pictures....
...For instance, a starter role in internal auditing reviews all elements of a business and gives you a bird’s-eye view — so you can decide which bit you really want to work in....
...The native birds are less colourful than those bred specially for captivity but still have a smart yellow waistcoat under the grey morning suit of their wings, and the most captivating of songs....
...A purist might want to fell a lot of the heath’s 25,000 trees, since the original heath — as painted by Constable — was a blasted heath: moorland of heather and gorse....
...In April 1819 he wrote to his sister about buying bulbs in bud at a London nursery and also some fine potted heathers, which he sent her instead....
...Whitecaps scudded towards Beginish, shadows raced one another across the mountains of Dingle, and small birds flew up from the heather and tumbled away in the wind....
...At the moment it has Heather Phillipson’s all too aptly named “The End”, where a drone clings to a cherry atop a swirl of whipped cream, complete with massive fly, highlighting the almost apocalyptic banality...
...to boost bird numbers than more traditional “walk-up” shooting....
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