HeyJaredCrafty Green Poet
Mostly nature and green living, sometimes poetry and crafts.
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A Season of Butterflies (opens the original)
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Over the past few years I’ve been surveying butterflies at two sites in Edinburgh, Corstorphine Hill and the city’s Agro-ecology project at Lauriston Farm. Surveys start in Spring and continue into October, so I’ve got a few more weeks to go. In Scotland, we often don’t see many butterflies this late in the year, but fingers crossed I’ll see some in the next few surveys. The survey walks are enjoyable in themselves, but feel much more worthwhile when I get to see good numbers of butterflies! The
Woodland Walks, Waterfalls and Wildlife (opens the original)
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Most years, we visit Dumfries and Galloway for a short holiday. It’s a wonderful area of Scotland, full of amazing places to see wildlife. Even though we’ve been visiting for many years now, we still discover new places most years. This year it was the Talnotry Woodland Walk. This steep walk takes in several waterfalls, an impressive monument and amazing views of the surrounding landscape. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!utt5!,f_auto,q_a
The Singing Squirrel (opens the original)
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At this time of year, if you’re in a woodland, you may hear a strange, harsh noise coming from the treetops. You may think it’s a Magpie or another large bird and look around only to find no birds, but just a Grey Squirrel. This Grey Squirrel is likely to be the source of the noise. Yes, Grey Squirrels sing. (Other species of squirrels probably sing too, I’m not sure). It’s not the most tuneful of songs, to be sure, but I was very happy when I first found out that squirrels communicate in this w
Get on Board with Catch the Bus Month! (opens the original)
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I've always enjoyed travelling by bus, ever since I was a teenager and would take the bus to the sixth form college a few miles away from home (and a good distance away from the school where I’d done the first five years of secondary school). That was when I learned to enjoy sitting on the top deck and watching the world go by. The problem back then was that all the smokers gathered on the upper deck, making the atmosphere unpleasant, particularly if the bus was busy. You haven’t been allowed to
From Rubbish to Art (opens the original)
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This Substack is, like my original blog and my original Etsy shop (now defunct)1 and my BlueSky account, called Crafty Green Poet. I usually focus on the green element of the name in what I post here, with the occasional poem. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with that, but for the sake of balance, here’s some crafty content. For many years, I’ve made most of the greetings cards I send to people (paying subscrib
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