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Archives for November 2015

Parlez-vous Prairie?

26 November 2015 by Simon Barnes 10 Comments

It’s not easy to upstage an American buffalo but the prairie dogs do their best. Certainly they add a touch of comic relief to the eternal dignity and the eternal tragedy of the buffalo. I met them, inevitably, on my trip to Badlands National Park a few weeks ago, when I was researching a piece… [Read More]

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Up yours!

25 November 2015 by Simon Barnes 14 Comments

A tiny scratching noise from the window as I sat here typing away. Naturally I raised my eyes. And for a second – maybe even 1.5 seconds – I was three feet – maybe even 2 ft 6 in – from a wren. How tiny! How absurdly, ridiculously, impossibly tiny! It clung there, balanced, twisted… [Read More]

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More crap from Simon Barnes

24 November 2015 by Simon Barnes 14 Comments

She came into the room in a great state of distress and my heart went out to her. “Can you help me? I can’t find my poops.” “Oh hi, Dakota.” This from Julie Johndreau, who I was visiting. “I thought I left them with my skulls,” Dakota elaborated. She then realised that there was a… [Read More]

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The flight of the genet

23 November 2015 by Simon Barnes 7 Comments

I was writing about the gannets of Bass Rock. I visited them last summer, part of a project for the Wildlife Trusts, which I’ll be able to tell you about in a few weeks. It was a wonderful trip to what is probably the most spectacular wildlife site in Britain. So I was blasting away… [Read More]

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Marriage and barn owls

22 November 2015 by Simon Barnes 16 Comments

The snow had more or less gone by noon when I stepped out again. I had to move two horses from the higher meadow – what we amusingly call a hill in Norfolk – to the lower. And as I was leading the first horse down the slight slope I saw a patch of drifting… [Read More]

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Barnes back in Bristol

2 November 2015 by Simon Barnes 19 Comments

Loon trousers had prodigious flares but very little room around the crotch. Neither characteristic made them ideal for a wildlifing expedition. The floor-sweeping velvet skirt of my companion was no better, but that night we rose above all impediments. The time was two hour past midnight, the place Ashton Court, just the far side of… [Read More]

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