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This is the second image of a flooded playground I’ve seen in the last few days illustrating the impact of heavy rain on our everyday lives

It’s an important reminder that space for children’s play needs to be climate-resilient too - and indeed that playspace can mitigate extreme weather.
February 10, 2026 at 9:18 AM
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Absolutely gobsmacked. One of the most amazing birding sights I’ve seen in Northumberland - here’s some of the 30 Cranes (up to 38 were reported by others) that spent the afternoon in a field next to the A1 just north of Alnwick. #NEbirding #UKbirding #birds
February 7, 2026 at 8:31 PM
First snowdrops of the year and more catkins; alder as well as hazel now … #wildflowerhour
February 1, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Hazel catkins braving the snows #12DaysWild #wildflowerhour
January 4, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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Day 10 #12dayswild and I couldn't not wrap up warm and go for a wander around in the newly fallen snow❄️
Nature was in her element- everything was elegantly dressed in white, from the trees to a dried-out hogweed flower. The sun and blue sky lit everything up - gorgeous!
January 3, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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“When it snows, children take over the city: they sleigh, throw snowballs, make snowmen and are more visible than ever. But what a city needs for its children has to be more durable than snow.” (Aldo van Eyck)
January 3, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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Miss Havisham’s veil
the rain that never reached us
falling on far fields
December 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Northern light.
December 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Sleigh your winter days with nature!

✨ Wish upon frosty stars
🧶 Craft something nature-inspired
🥾 Take a crisp winter wander
🦊 Spot wildlife in their wintery homes

These are just a few ways to make the most of #12DaysWild
Sign up here 👉 durhamwt.com/12-days-wild-2025
December 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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The RSPB invited the British public to vote on this year’s Bird of the Year. Guess which bird won with 81% of the vote? A bird who needs the prize to be swift bricks! Oh yes, the swift won. Email your MP now about swifts. We need to pull together for Britain’s most popular bird
November 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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… the kingdom of the prickly poets …
November 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Not really a flower but the first time I’ve seen mistletoe in the wild #wildflowerhour #Gibside
November 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Exploring the traditional #apples in the walled garden #Gibside
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Admiring the autumn leaves #Gibside
November 9, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Hellllllloooo? Are you there? Please help birds by sharing this if you also want to ensure swifts & other urban birds have homes alongside us. People power works but only if we work together. SAVE OUR SWIFTS.
November 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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#DailyHaikuPrompt
#drizzle

day-long drizzle
cannot douse the fire
of October leaves
October 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Bird of the place-name 93: RAMSDEAN (WSsx). OE hramn + denu. ‘The raven’s valley.’ Close to where I grew up, just outside Worthing. Near a Roman site and Iron Age Cissbury. Mentioned in a 10th charter. #birdsandplace #naturewriting
September 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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An actual North Tyneside back lane with glorious skies -
September 22, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Swans heading south
September 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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September 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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The trees in Northumberland are already hinting at changing colours- to rust, ochre, orange.

Even the most familiar places seem, mysterious and magical when transformed by Nature's "paintbrush"...
See "autumn" in my online shop for more examples - crownstudiogallery.myshopify.com
September 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Dandelion seedhead in the setting sun. It’s feeling quite Autumnal. #wildflowerhour #sunset #dandelionClock
August 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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An Ecology of Love & Ruin; a long goodbye & an acknowledgement that, what we feared for so long, never came to pass. More of this in my first book #OnGallowsDown #BookSky nicolachester.com/2025/08/20/a...
An Ecology of Love & Ruin
The Last Apple Harvest After twenty-one years, we are leaving this place. And not in the manner I so often feared we might – at our most vulnerable, and with nowhere else to go, like so many before…
nicolachester.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
A visitor … not sure who yet … #teammoth
August 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM