After the Wind
Wild West Yorkshire nature diary, Saturday 6th February 1999
Branches were down, strewn across the woodland paths. The moss lining of the cup of an old nest had sprouted to turn it into a green bauble.
One of the trunks of an old elm had been blown over alongside the path. This particular variety of elm has, in the past, been used, unusually, as a hedging plant. This row alongside the bridle path began to suffer from Dutch Elm Disease over twenty years ago.
Over open fields, the bouncing flight of a flock of Linnets.
Plastic bags in tatters have been blown into the canal-side trees and the river bank branches.
The ring-neck Pheasant is now a regular visitor to our garden, he sometimes strolls along with the hens from next door.
Richard Bell,
wildlife illustrator
E-mail;'richard@daelnet.co.uk'
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