Tycjan Chmiel

Right little hooligans, our local gang 😹

What a lovely springtime image! Here in the city we have more rubbish dump with a Starling perched on my feeder and throwing seeds left, right and centre 😹 #FirstBirdOfMyDay

Thank you 😺I love how good things get passed around social media. Just wish the bad things didn’t!

An Atlantic Puffin standing in green coastal grass, shown in profile with its distinctive black-and-white plumage and bright orange, red, and yellow beak wide open. The background is softly blurred, suggesting a rocky shoreline.

I just heard that today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ShoutItOut – birds calling. This Puffin says, ‘LET’S GO!’ 😺👋

I was just saying to OH last night when we went to bed that once today is over it’s nearly the weekend! The sun is out, the coffee’s brewing, it’s going to be a Good Day, I feel 😺 Hope yours goes well too!

Yes, they kind of need to be ‘left alone in a calm spot’ to do their own thing. Beautiful flower!

Ah! There you go! 😺

A large, mature crack willow (I think) standing alone in an open meadow under a clear blue sky. The tree is leafless in early spring, with a thick, fissured trunk and a broad crown of arching, intricate branches. There is a line of darker woodland in the background, and the dry grass in the foreground is sunlit.

Here’s my favourite ‘lone’ tree on a ‘pre-spring’ (as it’s called in PL) day. It’s slowly waking up from slumber, ready to share its shade with all the people who will sit under it to read, talk and picnic this year 😻 #ThickTrunkTuesday

After a strange absence, which I put down to competition from more convenient sources, the House Sparrows on the feeders are the #FirstBirdOfMyDay 😺

I think it’s a bit more than sometimes, tbf, but I certainly agree with the sentiment!

I have no idea! A neighbour left them outside my front door and I just planted them randomly. I didn’t really look at what they were (probably because I wouldn’t have necessarily chosen them myself) but they might be some kind of hyacinth? We’ll see if the frost doesn’t get them! 😹

Does the photo have the location on it? That might solve the conundrum!

Cool! Love the coasters 👍

We have a ‘neglected’ patch behind our block that our cooperative refuses to do anything about & which I’m secretly pleased that they don’t, as I suspect it shelters all kinds of birds & possibly hedgehogs. Of course there are probably rats lurking but I haven’t seen any. Long live the mess!

That’s nice - where did you find that one? It’s got the Cyrillic ‘Kanalizacja’ but Roman Livnica lettering, which means ‘foundry’ in South Slavic languages. And at the bottom it looks like Poznań but not in Roman lettering.

Good! Just goes to show that companies (& the people that run them) will do whatever they think they can get away with. Glad to hear they’re being chased up.

Is that St George slaying the dragon I can see?

Funnily enough that last option never seems to see the light of day.

I love ‘em - so cheeky, full of life, quarrelsome, warbly, and beautifully iridescent! Just wish they didn’t projectile poo so much 😹

A close-up of a weathered cast-iron manhole cover embedded in reddish brick pavement on a sunny street in San Miguel de Abona, Tenerife. The round cover features an ornate floral sunburst design with radiating petal-like spokes around the raised, embossed text “PRIDA SEVILLA” in bold capital letters at the centre.

A cast-iron manhole cover embossed with a sunflower design and the inscription “PRIDA SEVILLA” set into a red terracotta-tiled pavement beside a freshly resurfaced road in San Miguel de Abona, Tenerife. In the background, a tall cactus in bloom rises above a whitewashed garden wall, with bougainvillea and succulents visible alongside plastered stone buildings under a deep blue Canarian sky.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Here’s a nice design for a manhole cover as we enter Spring up in the northern hemisphere- very flowery! Found on the lovely island of Tenerife #ManholeCoverMonday

It was never as bad in Canada, although it was a lot colder there & the snowstorms lasted for days!

We don’t get Robins in the city centre at all - the continental variety is much more furtive, smaller and has a less prominent red breast. I think things might be changing as the suburbs expand and there are more gardens and hedges to hide in. So fingers crossed! 🤞

It could … if you have a few hours spare to spend there’s probably a better chance! 😹

A close-up of pale yellow, elongated catkins of Common Hazel (Corylus avellana) hanging in clusters from a thin brown branch in woodland at the Syrenie Stawy in Szczecin, Poland. The cylindrical catkins are textured with overlapping scales and lit by low early spring sunlight; the background shows softly blurred tree trunks and dry leaf litter.

A close-up of bright yellow, ribbon-like flowers of Chinese Witch Hazel (Hamamelis mollis) on bare branches at the Summer Theatre in Szczecin, Poland. The narrow, twisted petals radiate from small reddish centres, sharply lit by sunlight against a softly blurred garden background.

And in the race to be first to ‚spring’ to life here in PL, it’s a dead heat between two types of Hazel, the Common variety and the Chinese Witch variety😺 The first is growing wild near the ponds while the second has been planted near the summer theatre. The catkins have opened so fast! #Szczecin

I can imagine! I remember one day driving to work out in the sticks when there was a sudden whiteout and I couldn’t even see the front end of my car, never mind the cars in front or behind, or the sides or middle of the road! I just kept driving very slowly as I thought I might get rear-ended 🙀

I was woken this morning by the melodic tones of the Robin that seems to have taken up residence - probably in the scrub behind the block. I would so love it if it could find a mate! #FirstBirdOfMyDay

I was always amazed by how much fell in such a short space of time!

I love the fish doorbell! Not that I’ve ever seen a fish when I’ve watched the livestream, mind… 😹

Has there been a lot of snow this winter?

Morning, Mushen - more or less same weather, but a thousand miles away; am gearing up for the start of the work week as for once I don’t have an 8 o’clock start (hurrah!). Time for a leisurely ☕️ Enjoy yours 😺