by websitesca | Aug 22, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
‘A gaggle of pale bellied brent geese Arrive in Autumn around our coast Strangford Lough in Ireland Is where we get the most. 1000s of them arrive to feed Before they’re on their way again Migrating from arctic Canada Heading into Ireland, England, France...
by websitesca | Aug 22, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
‘Hi Naomi I’m writing to you from Somerset Island, in Nunavut, in the Canadian High Arctic. It’s minus 11C, and blowing a gale, so I’m hiding in my hut. I think your project sounds fantastic – and wish you all the very best of luck with...
by websitesca | Aug 22, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
I remember the very first time I saw a Brent Goose. It was in Northern Ireland at 4am! but the earliness of the hour didn’t matter. Here was a beautiful little bird that had made an extraordinary journey. This one has come from the Wye Valley and passed over...
by websitesca | Aug 22, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
‘We have much to learn from Nature. Let’s give her time and space to reveal her secrets.’
by websitesca | Aug 22, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
‘That night, on the seawall at Dengie, I thought about migration: the strong seasonal compulsions that draw creatures between regions, even from one hemisphere to another. More than two million migrating birds used the soft shores of Britain and Ireland as...
by websitesca | Aug 21, 2013 | Poetry and writing, Uncategorised
Under the blue sky, I see yellow flowers All over the grassland. In the west wind, I hear geese flying towards the southern land by Wang Shifu
