Category: wildlife
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A note on a Hebridean boat trip
The boat is swinging like a skidding car as it makes it way down a channel lined by dark grey cliffs. I can hear the engine is gunning but progress is painfully slow. This is where currents meet, two powerful columns of water crashing and somersaulting together in a washing machine of briny muscle. The…
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Brock star
This was a country diary piece written for the Suffolk Magazine about Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s badger hide. Dusk is falling as we arrive. Birds are bidding an explosive farewell to the light while owls ke-wick in greeting to the dark. They are marking a changing of the guard, that special time of day when the…
Matt Gaw 