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@blakejules.bsky.social

Nature lover, especially interested in birds and moths and like to walk. Also avid reader of fiction and nonfiction and spend time online and off with The Reader. Dabble in drawing, photography and music of all kinds.....play the piano most days.

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An exhibition of tree sculptures and associated wildlife paintings

An exhibition of tree sculptures and associated wildlife paintings

An exhibition of tree sculptures and associated wildlife paintings

An exhibition of tree sculptures and associated wildlife paintings

An exhibition of tree sculptures and associated wildlife paintings

An exhibition of tree sculptures and associated wildlife paintings

Our #ArtExhibition opens today for a week at The Setting Gallery at Three Storeys in #Nailsworth 🔴 🔴
I’ll post pics of some of the exhibits later & if anyone is interested in buying prints of anything, please DM me for details or even better, come along and visit! #WildlifeArt #TeamMoth #TreeStories

18.11.2025 08:37 — 👍 34    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 0

Some wonderful exhibits by Mavis . Don't miss this , so much to see and to inspire.

18.11.2025 08:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A wonderful trip to Manchester museum today with my friend Carol.
We mainly went to see the moths but enjoyed the vivarium and animals and birds too. Great place to visit!

22.10.2025 19:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a beauty!

23.07.2025 06:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a beauty!

23.07.2025 06:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In fact I think I have a Poplar Kitten!

29.06.2025 09:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A beautiful Sallow Kitten in my yard for a couple of days.
My Urban oasis!

29.06.2025 06:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Beautiful Hooktip and a Sycamore.......thats a bit of a treasure trove for me so close to the city.

22.06.2025 16:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Great you got pic of stoat. I thought I'd seen knot, not quite confident enough of them without my scope!😅

12.04.2025 15:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A trip to Lyn Brenig. I spent a bit of time looking for Emperor moths and adders but no luck, lovely to hear the skylarks on my walk though. A visit to the Osprey lookout point was more successful, saw them both, in the air and on the nest.
They also have Willow tit there which I saw and a Merlin.

05.04.2025 07:10 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This week brought this little fellow looking ever so vulnerable on the ground. S/he wasn't there the following day so fingers crossed s/he is thriving somewhere in the trees.

05.04.2025 07:05 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hello! It's all fixed. It was the wires .......sorted. Not that I'm getting much, maybe a small Quaker this morning and Hebrew Character. I want to go Emperor Moth hunting, I did look in Wales this week but no luck.

05.04.2025 06:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A trip to London for the weekend. My daughter found this in the toilets at the pub........missing my trap which is broken so it was good to get this Early Grey, and away from home.

01.04.2025 05:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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our local park, teaming with frogs on Friday!

23.03.2025 06:57 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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At last, some moths

23.03.2025 06:49 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Fabulous moon tonight!

14.03.2025 20:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My last night mothing in Bucks produced this Pale Brindled Beauty, new moth for me.

11.03.2025 17:37 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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March moth and Hebrew Character in Bucks. Brimstone butterflies all over the garden currently and some courting ravens overhead as well as the Red Kites.
I think I've died and gone to heaven!!

08.03.2025 12:05 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Twin-spot quaker used to be common here in south VC59 but now quite unusual. March moth, Hebrew Character, small and common quaker made up the rest. #mothsmatter #blakejules
#teammoth

07.03.2025 18:06 — 👍 16    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

So subtle.......Leaf mines!!!!! Love it!!😀

28.02.2025 21:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Watercolour painting of brambles and dead wood with three brindled moths amongst the vegetation in soft brown grey and maroons

Watercolour painting of brambles and dead wood with three brindled moths amongst the vegetation in soft brown grey and maroons

Muted colours for the Brindles. Brindled Beauty being the only one I’ve seen..
Brindled
Small brindled
Melanistic (bit of a cop out) pale brindled

28.02.2025 12:53 — 👍 60    🔁 6    💬 5    📌 0
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No moths yet but this lovely hawthorn shield bug under the lock for the toilets at my allotment. Lovely surprise.

26.02.2025 11:53 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Adscita statices and Zygaena filipendulae stephensi rendered in gouache and coloured pencil

Adscita statices and Zygaena filipendulae stephensi rendered in gouache and coloured pencil

A few years ago I used to see the Six-spot burnet regularly and the Forester I’ve only seen once, but a real beauty I’ve never forgotten. So this summer I’ll be Zygaenid hunting on the local common where they like to hang out.
#MothMonday #teammoth

24.02.2025 14:33 — 👍 92    🔁 6    💬 6    📌 1
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Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission

Generative artifical so-called intelligence: plagiarism on a giant scale

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

25.02.2025 07:47 — 👍 201    🔁 65    💬 9    📌 3
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Mandarin duck still in the same spot in Sefton Park yesterday as it has been all week.

24.02.2025 12:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Country diary: The earth moved – taking everything with it | Jennifer Jones Oglet, Merseyside: A landslide here has left roots exposed and strangers on the shore. This is a test of plant tenacity

In Merseyside, a landslide takes the vegetation with it, while @jensoilandpen.bsky.social searches for any survivors, in @theguardian.com country diary today.

#countrydiary #naturewriting

24.02.2025 08:21 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

#WomensHistory #WomeninPolitics

17.02.2025 14:10 — 👍 23    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

You are branching out! Get better soon!xx

12.02.2025 07:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A favourite hawk moth for #mothmonday because I’ve got a bad back and unable to finish any paintings at the moment, including this one. So I’m a bit miserable 😞 trying to cheer myself up and desperate for some spring warmth. #teammoth #mothsmatter

10.02.2025 17:33 — 👍 63    🔁 3    💬 8    📌 0

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