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An introduction to Shetland lichen

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Jon Dunn

I started this blog with a working title of ‘Diving into lichen’ but, on reflection, I realised this was a wildly inappropriate oversimplification. I’ve barely dipped my toe into the lichen shallows. And, if we’re to extend that metaphor a … Continue reading →

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2020 – a year of local wildlife (Part IV)

Posted on December 18, 2020 by Jon Dunn

Throughout 2020 I spent a lot of time looking out to sea. That’s not hard to do where I live – my home sits on the rocky spine of a narrow, low peninsula, so there are sea views on three … Continue reading →

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2020 – a year of local wildlife (Part III)

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Jon Dunn

Being at home as much as I was this year brought fresh perspective on some changing aspects of the natural world at the end of the island on which I live. Despite nothing having changed in the land use of … Continue reading →

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2020 – a year of local wildlife (Part II)

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Jon Dunn

During the stay-at-home phase of the early summer’s Covid-19 restrictions I mostly took my daily exercise pottering around on my Shetland croft – I knew I was blessed to have open space all around me and, as we’ve seen in … Continue reading →

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2020 – a year of local wildlife (Part I)

Posted on December 7, 2020 by Jon Dunn

I usually summarise the past year on this blog in one post but, as 2020 has been so very different to every year that’s gone before, it seems appropriate somehow to break it down into some broad themes instead. What … Continue reading →

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Got those Whalsay blues

Posted on October 7, 2020 by Jon Dunn

When I was a keen young birder, on the cusp of leaving school and heading off to university, I spent a week in October on the Isles of Scilly. It was a taste of freedom to come. It was also … Continue reading →

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Lockdown wildflower photography

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Jon Dunn

Every cloud, they say, has a silver lining. I have, I know, been blessed in the past six months to live where I do – during the very strictest weeks of lockdown, I could at least wander outside on my … Continue reading →

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Lesser Twayblades

Posted on June 6, 2020 by Jon Dunn

A few years ago, I set out to find Pugsley’s Marsh Orchids in Shetland. They’d never been recorded here before, but it seemed there was a reasonable chance they had, at least once upon a time, occurred here given their … Continue reading →

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Orchid Photography in Rhodes

Posted on May 18, 2020 by Jon Dunn

This past weekend should have seen me hosting a series of orchid-hunting days in Kent for Greenwings – a chance to share my beloved orchids with a gathering of friends old and new. By now we should have been surrounded … Continue reading →

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A Rhodes Orchid Odyssey (vi)

Posted on April 9, 2020 by Jon Dunn

Our final full day on Rhodes began, for the guides, with a pre-breakfast expedition a few miles out of the village following up a rumour of a colony of yet another delectable Ophrys, Ophrys lucis. The directions we’d been given … Continue reading →

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