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A rewilding diary by Emily Warner
Glen Affric in the throes of summer was a very different landscape to its April incarnation. Shades of orange and brown had been replaced by a spectrum of greens.
March 20, 2019
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A rewilding diary by Emily Warner
I found myself in a landscape still held in the tail end of winter. The birch, previously aflame with the colours of their autumn leaves, showed their exposed skeletons of deep chestnut branches…
January 8, 2019
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A Year in Kingcombe: December, by Anita Roy
Outside, the large, circular bird-feeder hanging on a branch of the bare hawthorn tree is aflitter with birds: blue tits, great tits, dunnock, sparrows, robins, wrens, even a great spotted woodpecker zooms in for a spell.
December 19, 2018
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A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: November
The hills seem to draw back from the sky, as though they are the curtains and it is the main stage. And today, the sky is a total scene-stealer.
November 26, 2018
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A rewilding diary by Emily Warner: introduction
Glen Affric, where I have been based for my research, contains one of the largest remnants of Caledonian forest. Now reduced by centuries of human exploitation to scattered pockets, this habitat is home to a host of the UK’s wildest and rarest plants and animals.
November 13, 2018
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A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: October
Kingcombe is not just a place for enjoying the natural world, but for changing the way we view it, for telling new stories about our relationship with it.
October 31, 2018
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A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: September
The world was alive, rushing and swooping along with the last three swifts of summer like skipping stones across a green and storm-tossed sea.
September 25, 2018
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A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: August
The hottest, driest June on record had simply extended unbroken into July…
August 22, 2018
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A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: July
The hottest, driest June on record had simply extended unbroken into July, and apart from one brief downpour, which barely managed to soak the topsoil, looked set to unroll till the end of summer.
July 24, 2018
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A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: June
It was a typical English summer’s day, in that it felt like early November and I was regretting not bringing my gloves. The wind clawed through the sycamore and chestnuts, yanking their leaves back at the wrist and setting their silver undersides streaming, while above them, the hilltops vanished into the low-bellied clouds.
June 26, 2018
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A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: May
I walked along the lane leading up to the Wessex Ridgeway, the way I’d come in January. The trees had lost the sharp distinction of winter, and even the crisp pointillism of early spring had given way to a kind of blurring – a soft wash of green.
May 22, 2018
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A Year in Kingcombe by Anita Roy: April
The trees, still mainly leafless, maintained their wintery silhouettes, but there was a sort of haze, a shimmer, in their upper branches now, like a whisper made visible, the hint of new growth, the gathering of the green storm.
April 16, 2018
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