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Sam Ansell

We welcome guest bloggers! If you've something to write home about - whether you've got a trail cam in your garden, or you've made a bird box, or visited one of our nature reserves - if it's to do with Cumbria's wildlife & wild places then we'd love to hear from you!

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Wildlife Watching

A poem by Susan Cartwright-Smith, Gosling Sike writer-in-residence and Wildlife Watch Leader for Houghton Watch Group

Pied flycatcher

I took a path

A poem by Gosling Sike writer-in-residence Susan Cartwright-Smith

image of a grasshopper warbler bird singing  -copyright amy lewis

Spring

A poem by Gosling Sike writer-in-residence Susan Cartwright-Smith

Frost crystals © Jody Ferguson

A winter poem

The latest poem by writer in residence Susan Cartwright-Smith.

Teasels at Gosling Sike © Jody Ferguson

November at Gosling Sike

The latest Gosling Sike-inspired poem by writer in residence Susan Cartwright-Smith.

Autumn beech trees woodland - copyright Don Sutherland

Poem: 'Spiral Down'

A poem inspired by Gosling Sike by writer-in-residence Susan Cartwright-Smith.

Wetlands at Gosling Sike © Andrew Heptinstall

A summer visit to Gosling Sike

Throughout the summer Susan Cartwright-Smith, writer in residence at Gosling Sike has continued to visit the reserve. She has complied two beautiful poems reflecting upon those visits.

Annual flower border at Gosling Sike

Visiting Gosling Sike in May

Visiting Gosling Sike in May during the Covid restrictions - a poem by writer in residence Susan Cartwright-Smith.

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