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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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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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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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A Rhodes Orchid Odyssey (v)

Posted on April 8, 2020 by Jon Dunn

I think we all felt we’d earned a day of wall to wall sunshine by this point, and our fifth day on Rhodes certainly didn’t disappoint in that regard. It was, in stark contrast to the previous day, proper T-shirt … Continue reading →

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A Rhodes Orchid Odyssey (iii)

Posted on April 6, 2020 by Jon Dunn

Another wet day dawned in Rhodes though, with a weather eye firmly on the local forecasts, we would not find our orchid hunting too badly impaired by the elements. We made the decision to swap coasts today, and struck east … Continue reading →

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A Rhodes Orchid Odyssey (ii)

Posted on April 5, 2020 by Jon Dunn

We were up early in the morning of our second day on Rhodes, keen to make the best we could of our time on the island, and fired up by the previous day’s strong start to our orchid hunting. It … Continue reading →

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A Rhodes Orchid Odyssey (i)

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Jon Dunn

Our arrival on Rhodes was tumultuous, to say the least – we flew in on the wings of a violent storm that closed airports across the eastern Mediterranean, descending through black clouds towards the island before, to our dismay, being … Continue reading →

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Cooba libre (or here’s lookin’ at coo, kid)

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Jon Dunn

It’s not exactly a secret that I’m busy researching and writing a new book – something on a larger, grander and more sparkly scale than Orchid Summer. My subject matter, this time around, are the hummingbirds of the Americas – … Continue reading →

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Spring Equinox

Posted on March 20, 2016 by Jon Dunn

Today’s the Spring equinox here in the northern hemisphere. Perversely Shetland, being contrary like that, is marking the occasion with a lacerating north-westerly and a return to wintery weather. A year ago today we were enjoying the near-total solar eclipse … Continue reading →

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