John Jackson

This species has been breeding on the Thames islands near Kingston Surrey for 5 years or more. I have see pairs and families either side of Kingston bridge.

Written in the year 2000 while working in Crystal Palace.

An old robin poem for you.

@rspb.bsky.social my new robin poem.

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@rcpsgheritage.bsky.social could you dig up some stuff on Kaolin Morph a cure used in every household in the UK and now banned. Happy new year to one and all.

Ps pair of Egyptian geese no binoculars today so may have missed something.

Garsons farm car park field now flooded more than I have ever seen. Usual suspects, swans, gulls, Canada geese, magpie, jackdaw, crow and pied wagtail.

I think this may be the first of 2 rhyming poems written in 2000s about the millennium tethers ballon on Vauxhall park.

3 nights over London’s streets and gardens, like moonlight but no moon is visible. Very strange indeed.

That’s it, but do they care? No, because climate deniers will never except the truth, whatever it looks like. Just as half the world believes Darwin was right and the other half don’t.

So why do people go on reproducing on a collapsing planet, I ask myself.

This beautiful Cucurbit just by New Malden car park behind the new Chinese Loon Fung supermarket yesterday. Any one know it’s name very pretty leaves. Squash maybe?

Garsons farm maize crop ploughed in and now attracting many hundreds of birds. At least 100 Canada geese, Egyptian geese with wood pigeons, stock doves, magpies, crows and jackdaws feeding on the fallen maize cobs. Amazing.

My sister Sarah Hunt, her beautiful Cabinet of Curiosities, the result of a life time of obsession with little, beautiful, strange and unusual things. Lovely

This is how new species might be formed from fertile hybrids, some believe.

In Spain I believe the expression is as follows ‘You can’t educate pork’.
The truth of reality is often hard to bare. The same attitudes are common among the hunting lobby in the UK.

There is another thought, the reproductive urge is so strong people cannot resist it’s power to overcome any doubts they may have. UK birth rate is dropping but families above the average, are they rising? What are the stats, I don’t know?

But people go on reproducing, in spite of what we know is happening. Is it that they prefer not to think about the consequences or just don’t care. The last proposition is that they don’t know what is going on in the world. Then of course there are the climate change deniers. Lots to consider eh?

Well done, I couldn’t put it better.

What has happened is that American culture and mores have had a powerful influence on the way we think and behave. Of course millions of both us and Americans behave in ways considered normal by most of us. I do so agree with you on every level.

With more research I have discovered that while this is a popular garden plant in the arid landscape of Texas actually it comes from similar dry habitats in parts of South America.

Pair of swallows over Squires Ditton near Surbiton. Overflying now, often sits on wire nearby the Buddhist temple.

Sunset off the A3 in Kingston, Surrey this evening.

I am afraid it has been badly affected by the lack of rain. Basically a fern and tree garden with a greenhouse full of plants that I can keep alive. It is warm in the greenhouse where the Taro grow huge with the fish in the tank below. I am lucky to have such a wonderful place to grow them.

Once as scarce as hen’s teeth. Climate change enabling many such species to gain a foothold in the UK, formally such a presence would have been impossible. So many to record, a quick look at the literature will confirm what i say. The reverse is also true with relict northern species declining.

A very clean Jersey Tiger in the gardens at Pembroke Lodge.

Butter and eggs, Lotus corniculatus and Taro Alocasia in my greenhouse in Kingston. Roots from Asian shops in our are planted in a water trough in my carp tank setup. This keeps the water clean for the fish, huge plants removing the nutrients for their growth.

My O.T. sister told me to turn over and use your hands placed forward on the ground in front of you then push up from there. I am old 84, and often sit on the floor in charity shops checking out the old books that may be worth the effort. It works every time.

A savage looking Bromeliad on the corner of Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park. Dykia spines will rip you to pieces, a species from Texas I believe. A very large one in the corner of the dry section of the Wisely glass house.

At least 3 plus Jersey Tigers today in a cool corner of Waitrose car park Surbiton today Saturday.