Hints and tips:
...“Sometimes it may seem a little boring or staid, but it’s like the tortoise and the hare. If you keep doing what you can do well over a long period of time, the compounding really works.”...
...Ostensibly about Dürer, drawings of the hare, the wing of the blue roller, and the stunning watercolour of the Great Piece of Turf, Hoare also communes with, inter alia, Erwin Panofsky, Thomas Mann, Marianne...
...hares, which some gamekeepers say is needed to maintain large populations of grouse....
...Heather Kaniuk grew up in Auckland....
...The review, led by Alan Werritty, is looking at such practices as heather burning, hare culls and the use of medication and whether or not a licensing system should be imposed on shooting estates....
...I want to see grouse moors covered in heather and a landscape of coppices and hedgerows where pheasant and partridge can take cover....
...Early one March morning I had the privilege of observing brown hares boxing in the dew-laden winter wheat....
...It is a 30-minute drive to O’Hare international airport. What A 17,500 sq ft house which featured as the home of fictional music mogul Lucius Lyon in the hit TV series Empire....
...Animal rights activists have also condemned the culling of mountain hares, which many keepers believe threaten grouse because they carry ticks....
...The diet of the red grouse, predominantly heather shoots, means a search for property must focus on the birds’ habitat, the heather-clad uplands of Scotland and northern England....
...The gamekeeper quickly counts the birds as they wing away over the purple heather....
...open spaces are home to flora and fauna found nowhere else including rare and vulnerable “red list” species, birds such as the fast flying, dragonfly-eating merlin, and mammals like the timid mountain hare...
...It’s sending out the message that the arts aren’t important,” says Heather Bird, a 37-year-old freelance orchestral double bassist who organised the protest. ” Inspired by a Dutch radio orchestra that played...
...rocks and heather...
...The odd deer, hare, grouse, startled up from the heather as I worked round the shores. I walked and fished, ate and rested, then walked and fished, made notes and looked....
...It is home time; hence Dinos and I part company – a cackling Burke and Hare skulking into the fog like criminals hankering for crime....
...We scanned the patchy snow, and made out a pair of mountain hares crouching in the lee of a couple of heather clumps....
...Like Hare, David Edgar is a veteran of political theatre....
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