A COUNTRY YEAR​

 

A Common Place Book of the wild NORFOLK, and occasionally SUFFOLK, that our ancestors knew so well. Their very lives evolved around the changing seasons; and the coming and going of the flora and fauna was an intricate part of their existence.

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1st January - 18th January.

Robin Redbreast (4)

As the Day Lengthens (2)

Birds of the Wetlands (4)

It Blew and it Snew (1)

Black Birds and Kentishmen (4) 

A Gamekeepers' Winter (3)

Snow on the Marshes (4) - Moorhens and Coots (1)

A Breckland Winter (1) - The Hare (1)

In the Garden (2) - The Bullfinch (1)

A Farming Life (5)​

The Notes of a Naturalist (4) - The Otter (1)​​​

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19th January - 5th February.

Thaw in the Marshes (4) - The Cobble Bird (1)

Weather-breeders (3)

Spinks and Others​ (7)​​

Winter Companions (4)

February Fill-dike (3)

Candlemas Bells (2)

The Ring Dove (1)

A Farming Life (6)

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6th February - 23rd February.

Coppice and Coppicing (4)

The Mistletoe Bird (7) 

Weather Lore (5)

A Farming Life (3)