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While driving along the Strines road, we see a mallard leading a dozen small duckling into the heather on the moor. It's miles from water here! Hope they'll be OK.
I draw a sycamore this morning at Fairholmes and in
the afternoon the pile of logs lying on the ground nearby,
the result of lopping back this old pollarded tree. Richard Bell, richard@willowisland.co.uk |
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also keep seeing a lapwing by the roadside. Good that they're nesting
as, in our tidied up countryside, lapwing numbers have
been declining. Upland pastures and moorland edge might be one of the
places they're hanging on.