Young Collared Dove fledged on 7th April now in back garden being fed by male of pair with female back on nest 12th April!

First egg of my incredibly prolific Collared Dove pair. They managed four broods of two last year so expecting similar

This car crashed at Christmas and still has not been recovered

and occasional 1 Coal Tit and 1 Wren plus 2 Yellowhammer, 1 Goldfinch, 8 Long tailed Tit and two or more Redwing and Fieldfare straying in from the Hawthorn hedge over the road where dozens have been present.

The cold snowy weather drove many birds into my garden this week. A total of 19 species the regulars 2 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, Collared Cove 3 (including 2 copulating) , 15 Jackdaw, 4 Blackbird, 2 Magpie, 2 Dunnock, 3 Robin (much fighting), 2 Starling, 17 House Sparrow, 3 Tree Sparrow.

Country Dick Montana, was an American a member of The Beat Farmers. He was born in Carmel, California 1995 he suffered a heart attack and died while playing "The Girl I Almost Married" during a show at the Longhorn Saloon in Whistler

Class band and man. Where did that 30 years go?

New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports.

Dear Canada, can someone explain why we are not doing this??

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It's two months until Christmas day and some boneless jerk had their Christmas lights on last night. Put Christmas back in December and don't dare try to sell me a poppy till November!
Am I alone in this?

Shooting Times uses selective quote to shamelessly misrepresent my view on predator culls A couple of weeks ago, on 24 September, the Shooting Times published a news item in which it was suggested that I support predator culls: The Shooting Times article was supposedly a précis of an ar…

'This is either shameless misrepresentation or whoever wrote that piece for Shooting Times is struggling to grasp the principles of basic English comprehension – you know, the stuff you learn at school when you’re eleven about context and drawing conclusions'

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Just missed the 75th anniversary of this. Document is dedicated to the parents of FO Stanley S Brand by the Headmaster F R Barnes

Another cracking blog from Nick MacKinnon on craziness of windfarm plans on Walshaw Moor.

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Nick & Ali don't put a foot wrong - unlike the developers who plan to put roads in impossible terrain. Our guest blogger is dogged in his dissection of the issues.

Photo of Melissa Hortman and family

They had kids, too.

Nice growth of Sulphur Tuft

Some more brilliant news from the region! We have successfully ringed three more Osprey chicks, meet 4R3, 4R4, & 4R5. This is the 3rd year the adults have been successful with all 3 birds fledging. Let's hope we see them back in 2027!! Those talons!! #birdringing

One of my favourite places. Holy Trinity Old Bewick

3.07 am and the day starts north of Newcastle. Birds starting to call and Bats still active

My painting SEA PINKS

Map shows a straight line between the two sites.

Kerton Pit, near Lydd-on-sea has been gathering waders on the high tides lately. One of the Bar-tailed Godwits on the 1st May was colour ringed - it was ringed in November 2022 in Mauritania, over 3700km away! Giving us an idea of where some of the 10k birds past this spring are coming from.

Reported swift sightings on the BirdGuides app:

Saturday: 3
Sunday: 9
Monday: 19
Tuesday: 43

Right on cue, here they come.

Ancient Greece by Train with Alice Roberts Alice travels across Greece and thousands of years tracing the story of the Ancient Greeks

If you missed the second leg of my journey into Ancient Greece on @channel4.bsky.social last night - you can catch it on demand here!
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The smallest red carpet ever. And it’s in a puddle.🤣🤣🤣

Bravo Canada 👏🏽

Passage from Carl Sagan’s 1995 book, the demon haunted world. The passage states “ not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting, my lifelong love affair with science. but there’s another reason: Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a four boating of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time - when the United States is a service or information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those and authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good, and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media. The 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

More true every day

I shall be spending the weekend with Daniel Clement at the Monastery. Thank you Richard

From my back window!!

Happy 80th Birthday Bob Moncur 🎉🥳 #NUFC

Ghost - Barn Owl
Watercolor and colored pencil on board
17.7" x 11.8" (45 x 30 cm)
Original sold