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A photograph of a crow. She is dangling from an antenna, holding onto one of the smaller rings with her beak.

Same crow, different day. This time, she is holding onto that same rung with one claw. Her wings are splayed out and the other foot is sticking out to the side.

Same crow, yet another day. Here she might be holding on with her feet. Her wings are spread out as if balancing.

Same crow, you guessed it, another day. Here she has dropped off the antenna and is in free fall. Wings out, legs down as she plummets down. She dangles, shifting from beak to leg, then lets go, falls, flies off and then back again to the antenna to do her routine all over again.

My daily entertainment is the dangling crow. She lives in the cedar with her mate. They’ve been there since last year and I did see them doing the deed, so maybe some babies this year? Anyhow, she escapes the nest to do her acrowbatic routine on a nearby antenna :) 3/3

#BirdingFromBed

A photograph of a song thrush and a great tit. The song thrush, with brown wings and a speckled abdomen, is to the right looking up at the great tit. He is standing on the top of the garage. The great tit, with green grey wings, with black stripes, and a black head, is perched on a branch running across the garage roof. Behind them is some green ivy.

A photograph of a robin. It is perched on a cedar branch, facing to the left, singing its heart out. Behind the brownish bird with orange chest and face is more cedar branches and a grey sky.

A photograph of a female blackbird. She is all brown with an orangish beak. She is hanging upside down on the ivy, grabbing a berry. Behind her is blurred vegetation.

A photograph of a fox. She is curled up tight in a ball and having a snooze on the garage roof. Her red fur contrasts against the green moss. Behind her is brick from the garage and a bit of ivy.

Here’s a small selection:
Song thrush and great tit having a convo
Singing Robin
Female blackbird having an ivy berry
snack
A not-bird having a snooze
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#BirdingFromBed

I absolutely love this idea! My bedroom looks out over some garages. How, erm, natural! But behind is a a massive old cedar plus a number of bushes and trees. And I do see a lot of wildlife - thrushes, tits, robins, corvids, tawny owls, red kites flying over, a couple of ducks, foxes, squirrels… 1/3

Thank you, Eric :))))

A story in emojis

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Since Alan didn’t specify that the flowers had to be very visible or indeed alive, I’m going with this heron with willow catkins and a robin amongst dead blackthorn flowers 😆

Photos from today, London

#BirdOfTheDay #Petals&Perches #Birds #Herons #Robins #ForJanet #Photography

Love the themes, and gorgeous capture. Love the vividness of the yellows

She knows it! 😆😆

Bad news indeed. Personal too - kiddo just put together her second telescope and bought a book on sun spots (no sun gazing with the scope!). Space observatories shouldn’t be facing cuts like this. Cut AI investment instead!

Well, at least their red flags are very very obvious so that’s a plus

For the past two years, the final project in my pseudoarchaeology class (ANT2290) was to craft a zine on an archaeological site, that presents both the actual evidence and a fanciful interpretation of it based on pseudoscientific practices covered in class. This year's crop was outstanding!

I know mine is. Such attitude!

Mein Gott 😳😳😳

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

Excellent news!

The modules, funded as part of the @rewildarch.bsky.social project led by Dr Anwen Cooper of OA, will help users to engage with and present palaeoenvironmental data in engaging and interesting formats without compromising accuracy 🌱

Thanks. Silly borb 😆

Thanks Rob. Loved watching it hunt. Gorgeous bird

Thanks! ☺️

They are glorious!

A photograph of a red kite. This is a large bird of prey, with a grey head, piercing yellow eyes and red-brown feather. The wings have a splodge of white at the ends and its tail is forked. He is soaring in the sky, wings outstretched, head down, as he searches the recently ploughed field for food. I watched this magnificent bird for about half an hour as he swooped around, flying low across the field.

Red kite hunting

London, 16 April

#StunDay #Birds #BirdsOfPrey #Photography

Today’s themes are any bird beginning with A, B, C or D. Alt is caption this. Doing both with this blue tit

‘Weeeeeeeee!’

#BirdOfTheDay #ABCD #CaptionThis #Birds

Gorgeous 😍

A butterfly is on a small vertical stem. Its wings are mostly transparent, with orange edges and a white stripe near the top. The wings also have some thin black lines. The butterfly is facing up, its antennae are leading it, and its eyes have a striped design. Green leaves are visible behind it, including through the wings.

🦋 A glass-winged butterfly is trying to be transparent about its desire to be a model for #ButterflyWeek, a . #butterfly #butterflies #photography #macro #costarica

A duck sitting in short grassy vegetation with one duckling between her and the camera, and five ducklings in a row behind her - some can only be seen by the top of their fuzzy heads. They look just a few days old

Lovely sight along Wykebeck on this morning's dog walk

A photograph of the white cliffs of Dover. The steep cliffs are made of chalk and are a brilliant white. Grass is growing on the top and a bit on the sides, where the angle isn’t quite as steep. Beyond is the blue of the channel that divides the UK from France.

The edge of England

Dover cliffs, July 2025

#BlueSkyArtShow #Edge

One theme from BoTD today is ducks out of water, but not flying. Here’s a mallard from the local brook

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Ducks #DuckOutOfWater #ECK

Ducking great photos as ever!

Name the visitors to the rape academy website. Name the names in the Epstein files. Let them justify themselves like victims always have to.

Promotional image for a handmade watercolour paint in a green-leaning blue with pinkish-purple granulation. There's a postcard swatch showing how the paint looks at different dilutions with water, and some unwrapped pans in 3 sizes. The label on the swatch reads: January blue aurora.

Promotional image for a handmade watercolour paint in a deep red with pinkish-purple granulation. There's a postcard swatch showing how the paint looks at different dilutions with water, and some unwrapped pans in 3 sizes. The label on the swatch reads: February red alder flowers.

Promotional image for a handmade watercolour paint in a leafy green with lightly granulating brown and blue undertones. There's a postcard swatch showing how the paint looks at different dilutions with water, and some unwrapped pans in 3 sizes. The label on the swatch reads: March green unfurled.

Promotional image for a handmade watercolour paint in a rich orange leaning yellow. There's a postcard swatch showing how the paint looks at different dilutions with water, and some unwrapped pans in 3 sizes. The label on the swatch reads: April yellow Beltane marigold.

The 1st 4 paints in the monthly colour calendar I'm making this year. Aiming to make a set of 12 that contains colours that stands alone and are good for mixing by the end of the year!

You can get them at lycomorpha.etsy.com