Harry Hussey

Hopefully this is the worst of it and you'll be on the mend soon.

🫂

Amethyst and Tungsten have been assigned.

Oo-ar?

Damn right they're important!

He's of that age alright, and that drug hadn't been developed back then.

Little Egret.

Little Egret.

Little Egret from Inchigaggin today. Still don't take these for granted, despite them having colonised Ireland over 25 years ago. It helps that they are elegantly beautiful.

And Queen included it on their 'this isn't scraping the bottom of the barrel, honest guv' compilation Greatest Hits III.

Who did it and to what song?

Goldcrest.

Blue Tit.

Eurasian Goldfinch.

European Robin.

More passerine photos from yesterday.

Common Chiffchaff at the Tramore Valley Park.

Common Chiffchaff.

Common Chiffchaff.

Goldcrest at the Tramore River.

It's a wet morning here, but yesterday was a beautiful calm sunny day, excellent for seeing and photographing birds.

I wish one could turn the AI overview off.

They won last night.

I removed Spotify from my phone and avoid it online, for ethical reasons. Seeing as how I mostly used it for podcasts, I have no idea what age it would have told me that I am. Algorithms are silly anyway.

I hate days like that.

Thanks, Den.

Adult Grey Heron Lee Fields.

Adult male Pied Wagtail Cork city.

1CY Great Black-backed Gull Cork city.

1CY Herring Gull Cork city.

Some birds from Cork city yesterday.

Unrelated, I was on a train in England once and it was running late or there was some other problem. The fact that the driver sounded like the comedian James Acaster meant I struggled to take him seriously over the tannoy.

Kamelion has become a bit more reliable since the 80s.

I wonder if there are still Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers there? That species is really doing badly in Britain.

Baku is in Azerbaijan, as for Melium...was that renamed like mavity?

Bear Grylls before Bear Grylls.

What about the Revenge of the Cybermen VHS cover with Season 18 Tom and an Earthshock Cyberman...?

How many people bought that on reissue expecting a tough geezer caper?

The market works very well, Paul. Just for a tiny amount of people.

My own qualifications are scientific, but I rankle at the reductive attitude of this piece, referring to 'a market-oriented mindset', and that applies to reducing science to its financial value also, let alone the arts. It's aggressively capitalistic, the market as ultimate arbiter.

Bloom Baby Bloom was love at first listen for me. And it grows with repeated listens.

I hadn't heard this one, it's decent alright. And I'm more of an alternative type guy. But good music is good music.