Ancient

Oak tree, Bradgate Park and Swithland Wood National Nature Reserve,Leicestershire, July 2024
Oak tree, Bradgate Park and Swithland Wood National Nature Reserve,Leicestershire, July 2024

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Ancient oak rises

from earliest ancient rock

forever nature

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by Scooj

Shipley Glen

Shipley Glen, Bradford Pennine Gateway NNR, West Yorkshire, May 2025
Shipley Glen, Bradford Pennine Gateway NNR, West Yorkshire, May 2025

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High above Saltaire

where Victorians played

wildlife thrives in peace

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On tour again

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Next destination

Godalming town in Surrey

overnighter looms

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by Scooj

Velvet

Fallow deer, Bradgate Park, Leicestershire, July 2024
Fallow deer, Bradgate Park and Swithland Wood, Leicestershire, July 2024

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Summer soft antlers

are protected and nourished

then the autumn rut

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by Scooj

View – 30 Days Wild (14/30)

Bradgate Park and Swithland Wood National Nature Reserve, Leicestershire, May 2024
Bradgate Park and Swithland Wood National Nature Reserve, Leicestershire, May 2024

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Green and pleasant land

there to connect with nature

and find some meaning

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by Scooj

  • 30 Days Wild is an initiative organised by the Wildlife Trusts. It is an annual challenge event, for those who choose to participate, to do one ‘wild’ thing a day throughout the month of June. I will try to write a nature haiku every day if I can, as my contribution to this celebration of wildlife and biodiversity. I did this back in 2015 and thoroughly enjoyed the challenge.

Niche

Oak tree, Bradgate Park and Swithland Wood National Nature Reserve, Leicestershire, May 2024
Oak tree, Bradgate Park and Swithland Wood National Nature Reserve, Leicestershire, May 2024

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Where an acorn lands

is in the lap of the gods

make the most of it

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by Scooj

Mini murmuration

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Starling flock startled

not by me you understand

peregrine falcon

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by Scooj

Ancient

Yew tree, Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve, Sussex, March 2023
Yew tree, Kingley Vale National Nature Reserve, Sussex, March 2023

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For eight hundred years

the beating heart of England

people come and go

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by Scooj

English Longhorn

 

At Parsonage Down

among the anthill hillocks

ancient cattle herd

 

by Scooj