Ian Moore

Best bird of my M1 commute so far.
Merlin doing the flickery stalling attack flight over junction 14 of the M1.
Technically not on my motorway list though 🤦🏻‍♂️
#bucksbirds #ukbirding

Does Harvey Barnes have a chant hue to his hair?
I thought when I saw him destroy the Millers for West Brom he was ginger.
#HarveyBarnesBarnet #NewvMun

And, he’s from New Cross.
Which is Millwall territory.
My Grandad was from Bermondsey and watched the Lions in the 30s.

4 Pintail, 2 Oycs, big uptick in duck numbers. It’s happening people, migration is go.
New workings.
#northantsbirds #ukbirding

I’m not saying that both my children have left university, but there will be signs!!
#poshcheese

Finished #smallprophets last night.
Absolutely brilliant.
But , how can there be a 2nd series?
Michael in Canada, Kacey in Australia, the prophets no longer and all the other magnificent characters without a story 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ben Fogle/ Graeme Souness job share.
Behind the chunky knitwear Fogle dreams about Nuclear proliferation.
Souness is just angry.

If the NHS collapses over night, I’m afraid it’s my fault.
Missed my doctors appointment cos I thought it was tomorrow and now I’m one of ‘those‘ people 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️
#sorryeveryone

Phew, just got the RNG before it buggered off.

These are incredible! But obviously not toasted, cos who wants hot strawberries?

Imbedded, so I’m guessing that’s Wiltshire or Somerset rules🤷🏻‍♂️

THE FUTURE

Could have done with the geese at Denford, but I missed the lay-by 😬, but I saw the Bean goose at Islip in January.

Great morning in the county.
The big hooted Red necked grebe and the now super shiny RN Duck at Kinewell.
All the way over to Ravensthorpe for the Slav Grebe.
Summer Leys, Redshank and Oyc back making a racket.
Then the new workings and found a 1st winter Caspo. Site✔️
#northantsbirds #ukbirding

Can’t imagine it’d get the urge to leave tonight, in the great deluge we’ve got at the moment.

First port of call tomorrow morning.

My disappointing ornithological February continues.
Finished work early, did a circuit of Clifford hill on the way home. Missed the Lesser Scaup and the Smew🤷🏻‍♂️
5+ Goosander though.
Big day tomorrow or it’ll be the worst month in years😬
#northantsbirds #ukbirding

Also the sample used on Goldie lockin chains ‘your mothers got a penis’.
But you all knew that , right?

Live music on a school night at our age😬😬😬
#theHowlers at #Esquires last night.
Very good

Chiffchaffs singing in February!
World’s gone mad!
#bedsbirds

Lovely warm and dry evening on the new workings.
They are looking pretty good again, 40 Tuftie, 40 Wigeon, 30 Teal, 20 Shoveler, 2 Greg’s and a pair of boggle eyed shape shifting hobgoblins (Gyp Geese).
Roll on spring.
#northantsbirds #ukbirding

Unsurprising with the lovely sunshine here in Brackley.
My first Brimstone has just been for a boogie down the street.
#ukbutterflies

You should hear us 50+ year old men at Yoga!
Squeals of anguish, hushed swearing, knees popping, occasional farts. Like a weird 1812 overture

I’d vote for anyone or anything that Falstaff tells me to do😬
#feartheBear

I’ve just been through Milton Keynes and my mother has fixed my old blue jeans 🤯

Finally a bit of change at the new workings (north).
Oystercatcher, Snipe, Green Sandpiper,
#northantsbirds #ukbirding

Friends, Romans, countrymen…
Why are you all having a really loud conversation under my bedroom window at 0230!
#gotobed #wheninRome

Daddy Pintails say ‘WHAT’

Black Redstart,LT Tit and Blackcap on my Italian list. Also some knackered old Roman remains. #wheninRome

Added Serin and Monk Parakeet to my Italian list. #wheninRome