They're just little guys. You can look at them for free and you can look at them up close if you pay for Bird Premium (binoculars or camera). They're just doing behaviors. They will never email you.

There's something very smug about watching a bluetit drink from a hanging bird bath you made on a blacksmith course with @mrrobknight.bsky.social.

"Sergeant, what inspires you?"

Walking Tank from @westfaliaminis.bsky.social for @trenchcrusade.bsky.social

Never start a project hungry.

#miniaturepainting #trenchcrusade #beans #nerdlings #minipainting

"Can't even 'it a sittin' Jerry!"

The Merlin app showing a European Goldfinch, bird of the day.

Bird of the day, lads!

A swan's arse in the air

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the river.

That's the one! Noble for Notts County was the other.

BBC Live Text from Swindon v Notts County. Liam Noble gets booked on 83:56 and 84:12.

Actually I think my favourite thing, which I've been lucky enough to see twice, is the "Get booked for dissent, keep arguing, second yellow".
IIRC, Noble here got booked for arguing about a free kick, then walked away and kicked a lump out of the turf so the ref called him back and booked him again.

"Goalkeeper gets sent off and is replaced in goal by his older brother, who saves the resulting penalty" has got to be up there.
(Swindon Town v Leyton Orient, 2015)

Spent the entirety of the second half under the cosh to a team in 16th. That is not a promotion-worthy performance and Salford will put us to the sword in the playoffs.
May need to spend some time on Banyard's database to see if anyone's beat us five times in a season before!

Swindon 2-2 Accrington Accrington scored after 24 seconds, then equalised in injury time. Harrumph.

Bums.

Pigeons on the outfield at The Oval. Some cricketers, too.

Important research for my next book, Flocking and Feeding Behaviours Of Pigeons At The Oval

Replica Rolex clock. It's twenty to eleven.

Pigeons of several colours on the park.

Teams are out

Rolex clock. It's nearly half twelve. The Stratton Bank is open!

Right then... (stupid early kickoff)
#STFC

What I am learning from the proliferation of AI images across Facebook is that a lot of people clearly didn't do enough Spot the Difference pictures as kids. It hasn't just added colour John!!!

Ad written by a six year-old whose favourite food is oats:

They occasionally do Spitfire flights from there. We're just close enough that if we hear it overhead or see it on the tracker we can head over there, they do a great breakfast!

The pointy end of a Canberra PR9 (XH134) parked up on some grass at the back of the cafe at Kemble.

A Rolls Royce Nene jet engine and, er, another one. And ex-Red Arrows Gnat lurks in the background on the signal square.

A silver Hawker Hunter next to the cafe. There's a 747 in the background.

The control tower at Kemble, with picnic benches in the foreground.

To Kemble for a fry up lunch!

It’s illustrative to recognise when the Guardian uses the word investment (straightforward handing over cash to the private sector) and when it uses spending (welfare, public sector wages)

Thora Hird shooting Nazis this afternoon. Record it and watch it tonight.

WOW, just wow. It’s even better than you’d expect Massive Attack x Tom Waits to be.

A goldfinch perched on a concrete bird bath facing the camera.

A goldfinch having a drink

😐

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Countdown Standard

xkcd.com/3232/

BREAKING: A jury has found Live Nation and Ticketmaster to be an illegal monopoly that overcharges fans.

After the federal government settled the case, 34 states kept pursuing the giant ticket and concert company.

Now, the states have won.

First poster for ‘COYOTE VS ACME’ in HD.

In theaters on August 28.

An absolutely epic PIF.
Used to get regularly get an airing on HTV around the farming programmes on Sunday mornings.

The 1/72 plastic pigeons are now painted. #PigeonSky

Painted 1/72 pigeons, in a mix of markings.

Happy with these so far! Lost three more to the Carpet Monster though.
To do: feet (...!)

Some 1/72 scale playing pigeons (one less then when I last took a picture of them, for anyone counting). They are stuck to a bit of making tape and are painted if a few different shades of grey and white. There's a light brown one, but that's gone a sort of weird green.

Base coats on for the pigeons of many colours.