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Crone
17 hours ago2 min read
Communication without words
On the front page, again, a Driveway crow watching me as I feed the birds in the garden. He or she cawed, the melodious caw, not the...
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Crone
2 days ago1 min read
In the winter wood
A run with a location in mind: the copse, where I wanted to visit the oaks and see what I could see. On the way, i met a couple walking a...
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Crone
3 days ago1 min read
Trying
As I mentioned the other day that I had failed to photograph the blue tits, that has been my mission. This one and the cover are the best...
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Crone
4 days ago1 min read
I thought...
...you must be missing the videos! Bear in mind, these are about three months old. I am currently scheduling videos for mid April - and...
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Crone
5 days ago1 min read
A day in my life
Another day, another walk. And more strange experiences with birds. This time, two magpies fighting in a tangled ball of feathers falling...
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Crone
6 days ago2 min read
Hawk-eye
The theatre was meant to happen and then it didn't. So I went to Kairos and thought about what I have learned from trees. Don't be greedy...
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Crone
7 days ago2 min read
Enchanted avians
Obviously, Tane subsinging every time he sees me is an unparalleled joy. Well, it parallels Bobbit's whisper song intimacy. However,...
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Crone
Jan 102 min read
Erazim Kohak
Ummmm... the blackbird is not really relevant... but the feathers are pretty and his facial expression....
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Crone
Jan 92 min read
Talking with other beings
Erazim Kohak wrote a paper about talking with trees. He wasn't considering the sort of verbal exchanges I (claim to) have with trees....
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Crone
Jan 81 min read
Sing loud and proud!
While I was out on a short and very cold trot today, I was stopped short by the lovely oak tree near the village. Its crown was alive...
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Crone
Jan 72 min read
The chatter
I've been listening to Dougald Hine's At Work in the Ruins , which I like a lot. One thing: he says there's little good climate...
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Crone
Jan 62 min read
Spot the squirrel!
This is cool, don't you think? The squirrel seemed to know he looked like a patch of lichen covered willow bark! I had decided to walk...
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Crone
Jan 52 min read
Many-fingered wings
They are beautiful, aren't they? Those wings? On another corvid, the raven, and back to David Abram in Becoming Animal... after he'd...
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Crone
Jan 41 min read
The standing ones
There seems to be a certain amount of viscosity. I mean that I'm slow moving and sort of stuck. But I have some tree news. I went to...
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Crone
Jan 31 min read
The winged ones
In the park, the crows are cross. Firstly, because I have my camera; secondly, because the gulls get the food; and thirdly, because...
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Crone
Jan 22 min read
Reading, reading, reading
Well, sometimes I am listening. Just finished The Funeral Party . That link takes you to a rather lovely review on an excellently named...
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Crone
Jan 11 min read
A bird for all seasons
Check out Tane's warming hump! The wing muscles are of course critically important. I recall that some insects can't fly until they are...
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Crone
Dec 31, 20241 min read
Space-time
These pictures look to me as if the blue tit is curving space-time! Freya Mathews argues in The Ecological Self that everything is made...
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Crone
Dec 30, 20241 min read
What is good?
On Christmas Day, I went to sit with Kairos. On the way through, I saw two muntjacs and while sitting there I watched a squirrel...
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Crone
Dec 29, 20242 min read
Back to the body
There's a section in David Abram's Becoming Animal where he sees this shaman, Sonam, who is teaching him, turn into a raven and then...
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