NSFW - One for ‘Owly Fans’ subscribers only 😆

#QuiteNoisy
#OwlChicksOnTheWay
#LittleOwls
#Suffolk

Non paywalled version of the FT article on the coming global food crisis.

archive.ph/17xxd

Van Gogh v latest Nasa closeup of Jupiter.

A shady wood carpeted with bluebells

Badger hole amongst the bluebells

Is there anything nicer than an English bluebell wood at this time of year?! If I were a badger I'd choose this spot too 💚

Yes, a few went down very recently, it's eroding really fast now.

Wide empty beach with dog

8 Fossil shark teeth

Officially off now for a few days to catch my breath. So went down to the beach with Bazz after work, had it all to ourselves again. Another good fossil shark tooth hunting day.

Just found out, it was indeed an artwork.

bettinafurnee.co.uk/works/if-eve...

Old 2nd world war tower at beach

As comment describes

Huh, noticed the iron work letters at the very top of this today 'PrisonerOfWar written forwards then backwards.
Art work?
#Suffolk

I arranged New York Girls so that the last verse in it is just for the men - apparently that includes Bazz! He joins in and then carries on until the end of the song 😆😆😆
#SingingDogs
#WeRateDogs

Trump confounds world by joining Iran in blocking the Strait of Hormuz.

Horrific. I can't imagine how distressing this must be for the workers.

Future-proofing travel in a volatile world How the current global situation can help us rethink how we travel

It takes 500 barrels of oil to fly to LA, and roughly 0 to take the train to Europe.

Changing your travel habits is about more than avoiding climate collapse; it's about the petro-states not holding you over a barrel.

flightfreeuk.substack.com/p/future-pro...

Hedgehog curled up

Hedgehog is back! Hope it's one of the babies from two years ago.

Among Britons who say they would consider voting Green at a future election, what, in their own words, is the thing that most attracts them to the party?

Prioritises environment: 22%
They are different: 16%
General policies: 16%
Left-wing: 10%
Values align with mine: 8%
Represent regular people: 6%

Great thread of videos, I always wonder where these are stored, they are so big & heavy!

#Artemis

Not sure how that negates saving it for manufacturing steel, agricultural vehicles etc.

I'm afraid I shall only be cheering that particular loss on!

Exactly. Even whilst it's more obvious than ever that we need to be saving oil reserves for the manufacturing or agricultural industries that we don't have good alternatives for, and stop burning it & wasting it as a single use fuel everywhere else where we do have good alternatives.

Public transport fares waived in two Australian states to combat rising fuel costs Petrol prices have soared across Australia and Asia since the start of the Iran war, with 80% of the region's fuel passing through the Strait of Hormuz.

Public transport fares waived in two Australian states to combat rising fuel costs

news.sky.com/story/public...

A new book, in French, by an epidemiologist who demonstrates, based on scientific evidence, that climate and environmental action improves our health and wellbeing, not just in the long term but here and now. He also examines the consequences of inaction. The book is available online.
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Gnarled old ivy stems on old wooden shed

Have had to completely remove this lovely ivy as this old shed is collapsing and asbestos removal folk are coming 😬 Worried that birds might be nesting in it so took it v slow but thankfully all clear, just in time. Glad I grew on 6 ivy plants from its seeds last year to replace it now!!

Our pair of noisy Little Owls are back on watch…

Female kestrel on the trail cam. She has a partner, they nest & breed in our big old poplar on the river.

Omg just tried the Quince vodka I made last autumn, its soooo good. If only I had measured & written down the proportions I used 🤦🏼‍♀️🤪

This made us laugh, I could go share it with all the GCNs anyone can see swimming around in there & let them know they have officially been discovered!

Oak tree & spring meadow.

At last, the somewhat bedraggled hay bales from last summer got collected, must surely have lost value but no longer a problem we need to worry about & the local horsiculture folk can de-escalate from scandalised back down to merely disapproving 😆

Not seeing a lot of info re #meningitis rash on dark skin so here are some examples in case it helps for people who might be affected.

A complete set of canonical nucleobases in the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu - Nature Astronomy Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five canonical nucleobases (A, G, C, T and U). Their presence in Ryugu and Bennu supports the hypothesis that carbonaceous asteroids contributed to...

Well this seems pretty cool &
gobsmacking no? ALL FIVE types of nucleic acid bases, the building blocks of LIFE 'DNA and RNA', have been found in samples collected from asteroid Ryugu

www.nature.com/articles/s41...