Tag Archives: Wicken fen

Interventions, and twenty three species of dung beetles.

see also notes on bird hides and on rewilding where I wrote about the dilemma of the National Trust at Wicken Fen: what to do about large mammals suffering and dying, and how to control introduced populations of herbivores, konik ponies … Continue reading

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on horses, birds, ways of seeing

Vesper Flights, p. 190-1. Helen Macdonald too writes from Wicken fen, it’s almost a literary salon! see notes on bird hides and on rewilding. She’s among the reeds: I learned to listen, to tune into noises and let them guide my … Continue reading

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