In the month of June this year a few keen folk and I ventured out as Forest Church for a late evening walk on Whitmoor Common. There were a couple of highlights for me that evening. This time of year there is often an expectation due to the season of…
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Fernhill
Recently I was in a conversation with my good birdwatching friend. We also have many deep-and-meaning-full conversations. This particular conversation was a little about Forest Church. He highlighted to me a poem which contains a nightjar but the famous Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. I’ve not read many of his poems.…
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Forest Church makes a come back after viral imposition!
Forest Church has been out of action for some time. I considered it was a good time to plan for one and get it going again in the local area. It all started with news of a Firecrest (Regulus ignicapillus – written about before here) in the churchyard at St…
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Nightjar
There are always new things we can learn and experience about God and the natural world. We may not understand fully what the creator has made. There is great mystery in both the Creator and the created. If we dig deeper into the created we can see something of God. One of my favourite…
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Bat detector recording +
Monday evening was such a delightful evening I went out for another Whitmoor walk. The sun was setting and had got caught behind some interesting clouds. The lower cloud was darker grey and had an overlay of narrow white angled pillars. Above this was a large fish-bone effect. I took…