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I have Grandkids - so no longer use Airport Departure Lounges. Natural History has been the unbroken story of my life. Watching wildlife, mostly under Dorset skies. Wrens; Greenfinches; Little Owls; Raptors & Adders are a preoccupation.
A very rare sight....
07.10.2025 20:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just before 21.00hrs & the full, Harvest moon is appearing rather blue, behind a thin layer of cloud, here in North Dorset.
#harvestmoon
They need to get that sign fixed
07.10.2025 19:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Peregrine Falcons are go!
See Hellie's fabulous guest blog on our shiny new website!
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My Remarkable Birds (1st ed) was used to train AI. Anthropic has agreed to pay compensation to rights holders. I am part of a USA class action.
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Remarkable Birds markavery.info/books/remark...
Cover: Audubon
I'm sure a chap, would have been dispatched to pick'em up - don't want to be bothering the paying guns with that sort of malarkey!
07.10.2025 16:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
3/3 It's worth watching this film if you are unfamiliar with pheasant shooting. The total reduction of gamebirds to mere 'targets' is evident.
As is the fact that many landscapes have been totally modified over centuries, for the pleasure of the shooting classes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtJe...
2/2 At each of the 24 pegs, the shotgun cartridges had been collected & I found no evidence of lead-free ammunition being used.
Black Gold were the most popular cartridge - an expensive lead shot cartridge, used for shooting high-flying pheasants.
1/3 Pheasant shooting began on Oct 1st.
I walked up this beautiful chalk valley & evidence of a big day was left behind.
Here, 'high-flying' birds can be shot - they attract a huge premium for a day's 'sport'.
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If you proceed - let me know - there's more to it than meets the eye....🧐😀
07.10.2025 15:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I know of a large Hornets nest that I'm going to and film - watch this space😀
07.10.2025 15:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Don't let the combine get you down.
07.10.2025 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hi - writes to SD card.
I mostly use this model from Wildview: www.wildviewcameras.co.uk
A great family company who you rely on for repairs & good service...
I wouldn't enter the Amazon jungle. Always use the batteries they recommend - it makes a huge difference....
But it was nice to see @stuartwilson19.bsky.social write in their support - see thread.
07.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Here. Have some shots of marvellous Rutland osprey, 6K, with large pike recently.
20.07.2025 10:25 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0That's great to hear Stuart....
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Sparrowhawk killed with banned poison in Aberdeenshire - Police Scotland appeals for information raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/07/s...
07.10.2025 13:54 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So annoying - you're away for a day & the camera gets knocked out of position.
Who should turn-up at the dustbin lid in the blackthorn scrub but a Common Redstart - the first I have ever seen here.
Just passing through my garden on migration.
I slowed the clip down for a better view.
#ukbirds 🌿🦉
Wasps - 7th October - they are coming & going in large numbers.
Some of them still bringing invertebrate prey for larvae in the nest.
They are not majoring on feeding on the apples & grapes near the nest yet.
#wasps
The Fleet, Chesil Beach and the distant Portland yesterday.
A steady onshore breeze made wind-hovering very easy for the Kestrel.
#landscape #dorset #ukbirds 🌿🦉
A soft focus illustration of a pair of goldfinch eating the seeds of thistles. The main attraction of the illustration is the depiction of the different textures in soft hues
British Birds and their Nests ‘Goldfinch’ (1953)
Artist: Allen Seaby
The inimitable Goldfinch
07.10.2025 08:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
October light in a Hazel holloway
#trees #landscape
The Beeches on the hillside - first hint of bronzing.
#trees #landscape
I leant upon a coppice gate...
Sheep grazing in rough pasture, as Hardy might have seen it.
#ThomasHardy #landscape #dorset #wessex
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
(But if taken on the angle),
Is bound in shallows and in miseries, (& certain ridicule)....
On Chesil Beach today.
I rather lost the level of my horizon there, didn't I?
Too busy trying to ensure my socks stayed dry...
A lesson for life.
#chesilbeach #dorset #landscapes #seacapes
Haha! - It had been a day full of Ravilious scenes and I forget to upload some of them with the farm, when supper was called....
06.10.2025 09:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A barn owl is perched on a wall at dusk. A full moon has risen in the still blue sky above a small village.
“A full harvest moon is rising, though it is still only twilight”
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL GrantWatson
Female Yellow Hammer & windblown Hawthorne.
#autumn #ukbirds 🌿🦉 #stormamy
