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Wird Batcher
Red Admirals brightened the hedgerows on the warming day, sunning themselves on holly and ivy leaves and taking to the air to flit and float over fern and bracken.
Willow warblers' songs undulate in the summer air, fluty, full and round as fruit. Chiffchaffs slice through, chopping segments. Then the blast of Wren blows all to the skies.
Small skippers flicker, rapid amongst the foxgloves and grasses, searching stems for mates. Small heaths fly at their passing, floating, drifting atop billberry and through birch.
Suddenly a quick rustle and a flash of green: a Common lizard wriggles through the heather, large and bulgy: a pregnant female searching for a spot to lay. Her abdomen heaves and her unblinking eye stares.
Meadow browns and Speckled woods flutter through oaks that grow among the rocks on the slopes above the reservoir, where Oystercatchers snooze. A Sparrowhawk stoops on a Meadow pipit above the moor as a Curlew calls an alarm.
Froglets leap from a cushion of stitchwort and moss toward the steam with its Dipper decorated rocks as the gurgle of clear cold water sparks in the sunshine.
Willow warblers' songs undulate in the summer air, fluty, full and round as fruit. Chiffchaffs slice through, chopping segments. Then the blast of Wren blows all to the skies.
Small skippers flicker, rapid amongst the foxgloves and grasses, searching stems for mates. Small heaths fly at their passing, floating, drifting atop billberry and through birch.
Suddenly a quick rustle and a flash of green: a Common lizard wriggles through the heather, large and bulgy: a pregnant female searching for a spot to lay. Her abdomen heaves and her unblinking eye stares.
Meadow browns and Speckled woods flutter through oaks that grow among the rocks on the slopes above the reservoir, where Oystercatchers snooze. A Sparrowhawk stoops on a Meadow pipit above the moor as a Curlew calls an alarm.
Froglets leap from a cushion of stitchwort and moss toward the steam with its Dipper decorated rocks as the gurgle of clear cold water sparks in the sunshine.