mastodon 4.7.2Folk musician, climate worrier and bad birdwatcher, who takes photos of ducks. Abibliophobe & tsundoku practitioner.
“Everyone should have a cause, even if it is only bloody ducks” - attributed to Peter Scott, founder of the WWT.
Morris dancer, melodeon mangler, smallpipe squeezer, book addict, occasional knitter. Sometimes suffer delusion of adequacy.
“Any fool can appreciate a mountain, it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens” - Cambridgeshire resident to botanist Harry Godwin.
Important Seagull Science!™️
A couple of days late to the party, but never mind…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cq6j2l7j6r2o
@sarahdalgulls@ecoevo.social did you know about this?
Top tip: after a nice Sunday afternoon at a music workshop learning new stuff and working out what of it we can use in your morris side on the way home, don’t check the news or social media.
This is an excellent little series y’all should listen to.
What is more beautiful, more deserving of poetry, than the thousand galaxies of a starling’s plumage?
On the radio earlier I heard them refer to “using strip searches against black children” - implicitly acknowledging that the search is itself used as a de facto weapon/ punishment, not a means on investigation as should be it’s only purpose.
£100+ walking shoes I bought reduced to £80 a year ago for morris dancing in: falling apart and can’t be fixed.
£80 full price ankle boots bought a decade ago for morris dancing in with traditionally constructed soles: just back from the cobblers with new heels and fresh rubbers, good to go for another decade.
Next month I’m taking in my 20 year old fake-Corcoran paraboots for the same treatment.
RE: @racingreen17@mastodon.social
With this in mind I’ve just planted a berberis that will produce flowers for pollinators and berries for the birds, to supplement our native mix hedge that never seems to make much fruit, and have a couple of kinds of sunflower, flax and forget-me-nots as recommended by the RSPB to go in pots next to our infrequent-cut-please-get-wilder “lawn” (now ~40% borage, also good for bugs and bees) on the way from https://realseeds.co.uk/ - an awesome supplier where my preferred human also gets most of the seeds for “our” i.e. mostly their allotment.
Excellent episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage on birds -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b09ly26f?
#Birding #Birds #InfiniteMonkeyCage #Radio #Radio4 #BBCR4 #NaturalHistory
Looks like we are performing at Bedfringe again :-)
https://bedfringe.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873658622
Having reported a colour ring sighting for the first time last weekend, I wonder if anyone can tell me typical response/ acknowledgement times? I can easily imagine it being a week or so and appreciate it probably varies a lot between projects/ record keepers…
#ColourRing #UKBirding #Birding
Dear fundraiser
If you’ve raised £22,000 towards your £8,000 goal, I don’t think you do need my help to get to that £8,000 goal as you say you do, as you passed it some time ago…
Just heard that Dave Shepherd has died. He wrote some awesome tunes - here he is with Anna Pack playing my favourite of them, Rose of Raby https://youtu.be/xb460hMHqrE
Fellow humans, this episode of Naturebang is worth a listen (I mean they all are, but definitely this one).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002vyh4
#NatureBang #Radio4 #BBCRadio4 #BBCR4 #Radio #Nature #HumanNature
If I lived in Darlington I’d be researching putting up barrage balloons, how about you?
Shit, I missed National Tea Day on Tuesday. Oops.
“Our sergeant major jumped from 30,000 feet
‘Cause he didn’t wear his his head phones”
