nick penny

Musician and nature lover

[nick penny @nickpennymusic]

Delighted to say my book Call of the Kingfisher has been reprinted! It gave a chance to include some of the reviews it's attracted since publication. I'm also delighted for @BradtGuides, who were willing to publish a book of nature writing by an unknown author in the first place.

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I'm giving a talk about Nightingales at Stanwick Lakes next Tuesday afternoon https://t.co/5BnNdoZNbX

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Countryfile's programme this evening is based in the Fens. But it also includes a film about my birdsong recordings in Southwick Wood.
The programme starts at 7pm on BBC2.

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Snippet of my tiny harp playing in the wind along with ambient sounds near the lighthouse where the River Nene flows into the Wash

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@joepike That's the Tories all over - rules are for little people

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I'll be playing in Oundle Library on Sunday 9th June as part of Open Gardens (just to clarify, The Jam Queen is a totally separate person!)

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I'll be doing some background harp and birdsong before and after Robin Hillman's performance about John Clare on 25 May.
It's in the chapel at St Andrew's hospital in Northampton, which was designed by Gilbert Scott and built during the period that Clare was a patient there.

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Another nest not far from home. The bird on the right is holding a tiny fish to deliver to newly hatched chicks in the bank opposite.

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A flash of kingfisher blue on Glapthorn Brook this morning. I slowed the clip down X3 so you can enjoy the flight more, which does wonderful things to the birdsong on the soundtrack!

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Coming in to land by the Nene

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A nightingale and song thrush singing together at 5 am - a still and misty May Day dawn in the forest above Southwick.

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@JohnSan74367140 @JenBarclayBooks @BradtGuides Thanks John - glad you liked it.

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I'm delighted to say that the audiobook of Call of the Kingfisher is now available on all the usual internet platforms.

https://t.co/vLNaQBSY2a

https://t.co/w4JmMTWAoK

https://t.co/enE0HLWBTY

@JenBarclayBooks @BradtGuides

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Newly arrived cuckoo and nightingale on the edge of Southwick Forest at 6.15 this morning

https://t.co/6ayxj12Gdo

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I'm giving a talk and playing locally at Tansor Village Hall on Sunday 21st April at 4pm. Tea and cake are on the bill too...

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@IanCarter67 Walking that track has something very magical about it - I always feel like I'm travelling into a time-slipped HE Bates story. The red kites still thrive there - ravens are on the up too. I'm there most nights at the moment, waiting for that first nightingale or cuckoo call.

[Ian Carter @IanCarter67]

A warm, soothing book. The story of a year along the River Nene near Oundle. A reminder for me of my years here in the 1990s chasing after released Red Kites. The linked recordings of bird song are a delight, each one briefly turning the head of a snoozing cat.

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The photo was taken shortly before my talk at Oxford Literary Festival yesterday, which was great fun to do. Their photographer quite deliberately lined up the overhead light fitting to canonise me (my pun, sorry!) @BradtGuides @JenBarclayBooks @oxfordlitfest

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I'm giving a talk about my book Call of the Kingfisher @oxfordlitfest on Friday 19th at 2pm
https://t.co/CkYnsLu7Sy