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Country diary: Signs of bygone farm workers, turned up by the plough | Derek Niemann
Sandy, Bedfordshire: I’ve cleared out the insides of the pipe, and now have a compulsion to suck on it, becoming the first person to draw on it in over a century
Derek Niemann
24, May, 2023 @4:30 AM
Country diary: Hope in the slimmest of flower borders | Derek Niemann
Sandy, Bedfordshire: In this chemical-treated cornfield, such joy to be found in the speedwell, spurge and the pink flush of fumitory
Derek Niemann
10, May, 2023 @4:30 AM
Country diary: This brooding dunnock is virtually a house guest | Derek Niemann
Sandy, Bedfordshire: We have the unbelievable good fortune to have a view – sort of – into the nest of this shy bird
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25, Apr, 2023 @4:30 AM
Country diary: Only clues remain of the cranes | Derek Niemann
Little Barford, Bedfordshire: Before these fields were drained for crops, they were stalked by a most musical and mournful bird
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10, Apr, 2023 @4:30 AM
Country diary: This great white egret lives up to its name | Derek Niemann
Roxton, Bedfordshire: Whiter than a snow-white swan, a true egret in appearance, but its length makes it impossible to confuse with its diminutive cousins
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20, Mar, 2023 @7:55 AM
Country diary: River swallows river on its slow way to the ocean | Derek Niemann
Tempsford, Bedfordshire: At the confluence of the Ouse and the Ivel, one can easily imagine staring downriver and seeing the prow of invading longboats
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09, Mar, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: These woods, this hill, are now out of reach | Derek Niemann
Sandy, Bedfordshire: The town fireworks were held in Cox’s Hill every year, but no longer
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17, Feb, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: All that remains of a vast local industry | Derek Niemann
Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire: I’m drawn to this mysterious relic of working lives interrupted. But what was its purpose?
Derek Niemann
04, Feb, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: The linnets have brought out the merlins – and the twitchers | Derek Niemann
Broom, Bedfordshire: These exhilarating finches are quite something to watch, with their whirring wings and showboating glides
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25, Jan, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: Remembering those who never grew up | Derek Niemann
Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire: In this country graveyard sparsely populated with small crosses and larger lime trees, two memorials stand out
Derek Niemann
10, Jan, 2023 @5:30 AM
Country diary: A downed pheasant draws quite the scavenging party | Derek Niemann
Sandy, Bedfordshire: Red kites, crows, buzzards and magpies fight it out over a carcass that looks like the Christmas turkey after Boxing Day
Derek Niemann
28, Dec, 2022 @5:30 AM
Country diary: A winged hunter with a hunted look | Derek Niemann
Sandy, Bedfordshire: The semi-aquatic cormorant never seems at ease on the water
Derek Niemann
14, Dec, 2022 @5:30 AM
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