@davidwallen1609.bsky.social
Retired librarian
The visitor centre at Rainham Marshes RSPB - about to rejoin the mother ship...
08.02.2026 09:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tho' a bit of a shock if you grab the watering can without looking!
06.01.2026 15:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0"Telas de Lenguas" traditional ikat fabric being woven in Mallorca at Artesania Tèxtil Bujosa, Santa Maria del Camí
15.12.2025 09:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hampstead Heath fungi: Shaggy Scalycap Pholiota squarrosa and Clouded Funnel Clitocybe nebularis
15.12.2025 09:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Regent's Park in London in December. Weeping willow still in leaf, plane tree seed balls, and a little owl looking suspicious
15.12.2025 09:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Grey Heron, Black-billed Magpie, Redwing, House Sparrow
15.11.2025 20:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Birding on a dull day in Hertfordshire in England
15.11.2025 20:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In honour of Jane Goodall who has just died. One of a generation of behavioural scientists who radically changed our understanding of the natural world. (Please forgive the copyright violation Gary Larson)
02.10.2025 06:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A few days in Dresden - doing culture!
20.09.2025 20:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
View of Prager Strasse
Socialist reconstruction in Dresden, rather nice, actually! View from the hotel window
18.09.2025 07:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We're in Dresden for a few days (socialist reconstruction just here) but my little camera will talk to my phone
18.09.2025 06:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I like the white ibis, too
16.09.2025 08:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Autumn coming on Hampstead Heath. Spear Thistle, Cockspur Thorn, the distant spire of St Michael's Highgate
16.09.2025 08:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
London Open House. And a visit to Lawn Road Flats and Isokon Gallery. 1934 developement of mini flats with a penthouse for the avant garde developers Jack and Molly Pritchard. He was agent for Venesta Plywood, so their penthouse is a showroom for the now iconic products.
16.09.2025 08:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Brilliant orange Tithonia flower
Just testing close ups, Canon SX600HS on a very dull day
03.09.2025 11:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It is a tactic that has served them very well in the past, though. How do you fight back against this gerrymandering?
31.07.2025 10:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0More young Mandarins supervised by mum...
23.07.2025 14:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Young Mandarin Duck on Hampstead Heath
23.07.2025 14:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My trusty Canon camera has been refusing to take photographs, on and off, for the past two months. I took it in to Canon who don't support a model that old (2009) but did diagnose that it was the lens, not the camera. 24 hours later I have a replacement lens and the results look OK to me
17.07.2025 13:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
V&A Storehouse at Stratford
10.07.2025 10:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Panorama view of the new V&A East Storehouse. The Victoria and Albert Museum's accessible storage
10.07.2025 10:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The best dumplings (knedlik) too...
10.07.2025 09:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Adult great tit
Adult and juvenile goldfinch
More from the garden
02.06.2025 20:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Adult and immature blue tit
Two immature blue tits
Adult blue tit
Immature goldfinch
Lots of fledgeling birds and harrassed parents in the garden
02.06.2025 20:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Andalucian horse and rider
Berkshire piglets with white noses
Exhibitor resting on jersey calf
Old English White heifer
Suffolk Show 2025: Andalucian horse and rider, two cute Berkshire piglets, Exhibitor and exhibit, Old English White heifer
29.05.2025 21:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pot of gold there somewhere...
26.05.2025 09:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Raven bothering buzzard, Sandy UK
RSPB Sandy. Raven bothering a buzzard!
20.04.2025 09:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
