Bouan Noué!

#BirdOfheDay today is of course the #HolidayRobin... So here are four, the first two are the regular down on the Spit, the third was in the arboretum at Dunster Castle, and the fourth is in the snow near Wimbledon Park. #birds #birding #robin #wildlifephotography

On the Jersey shore… #jerseyci #channelislands #grevedazette

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Contrast; one of the Wandsworth Park crows flying low over the Thames on an autumn day. #birds #birding #wandsworthpark #thames #wildlifephotography #crows

When your Maine hears the feeder.

Diplomoceras (the clippy) and Pseudocenoceras

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"AI: please add stealth features to a 1960s Royal Navy County class guided missile destroyer."

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideProfiles. Which we're getting from this juvenile common gull (which isn't that common) on one of the old dock pilings at Point Pleasant. #bids #birding #wandle #wandsworth #gulls

Today's #HolidayRobin is being quizzical in the copse on the Spit. #birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #robin

Why are jays and geese Canada and not Canadian?

From a while back, a gray jay sat on @marypcbuk.bsky.social's head at Paradise on Mt Ranier. #birds #birding #mtrainier #jays

My first job was designing parts of over the horizon radar systems; this is categorically untrue. Windfarms are static objects that can easily be mapped out using signal processing. Your radar software is looking for fast moving objects and so even the spinning turbines would be ignored.

Cached UK/IE #KindleBookGiveaway: 5 copies of Rivers of London, book 1 in the series, by @benaaronovitch.bsky.social; I have this book and love it. Since this is a #UKKindleBookGiveaway, you MUST have an amazon.co.uk Kindle account to claim one. Also #speirgorm

Some more Santa Steam Special pictures, from its second run through Putney. This time P1 No 61306 Mayflower was on the fast line, so more of a head-on view, with drivers looking out around the cab. #putney #steamlocomotives #railwayphotography

Walking back from the second Santa Steam Special pass of the day, I saw one of my favourite birds, one that's not particularly easy to see as they move so fast in the trees... The long-tailed tit! A small flock was high up in the bare branches. #birds #birding #putney #wildlifephotography

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Today's #BirdOfTheDay them is #grounded; birds on the ground. And so, here's a great grey heron standing on one leg, on the edge of the Wandle delta barge stands. #birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #heron #wildlifephotography

Look what just arrived!

Another day of Santa Steam Special runs, with LNER P1 No 61306 Mayflower in the Putney cutting, with the sun trying to peek through the grey skies. #putney #photography #mainlinesteam #railphotography

Just completed final watch through of the finished ROGUE TROOPER film… 25 years of pestering @2000ad.bsky.social to let me give it a shot, 3 years of production to make the thing & now… it’s DONE! Can’t wait for you to see it. So, so proud of our team. We’ve made something a bit special. ❤️

“The last-minute christmas rush at the bookshop.” - my latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books

I feel quite surprised to have made it to my 60th birthday today. As growing up in the late 70s and 80s, I really didn't think I'd make it past 20 without Reagan pressing the button...

Did you get new clothes this year? If you didn't the Jólakötturinn is coming!

Merry Tullmas! youtu.be/6qcPS-J0HTg?...

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #AboutTheKids, focusing on chicks and juveniles. For the solstice, let's make it a #HolidayRobin too! This little guy was down on the Spit over the summer. #birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #wildlifephotography

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Here comes LNER B1 No 61306 Mayflower with the second pass of today's Santa Steam Special. #photography #mainlinesteam #steamtrains #railwayphotography

As I walked down to the footbridge to watch the Santa Steam Special come past a second time, a pair of great tits were frolicking in one of the trees at the top of the street. #birds #birding #putney

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #QuietMoments with an alternate option of #ColourfulCaptures. So, how about both in one... A cormorant sitting on a wooden piling in the peach light of a winter morning on the Thames. #birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #wildlifephotography #cormorants

With a 1950 BR green and crimson and cream carriages, it seems only appropriate to try a B&W version of today's Santa Steam Special. #photography #mainlinesteam #steamtrains #railwayphotography

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

It's the Saturday before Christmas, and you know what that means? Yes, it's Santa Steam Special time! This year hauled by LNER B1 No 61306 Mayflower, and heading east through Putney.

TFW the day in your usual chippy tells you you’ve lost weight.

Unexpected FSOL mix CD alert! Live stream 2000 GMT, release drops afterwards. fsol.bandcamp.com/community?si...

Unsolicited duck pic. (A Eurasian green-winged teal on the Wandle delta this morning.) #birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #wildlifephotography #duck #teal

There is something about the yellow feet of a little egret; they look like they're wearing marigolds. #bids #birding #wandle #wandsworth #herons

From this morning's Wandle wander; a yellow-legged gull gliding past the Point Pleasant apartment blocks. #birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #gulls #wildlifephotography

Come on, ‘The Mancunian Candidate’ was right there.

Thunderbirds are go! A rather FAB helicopter paint job, over the Thames near the London Heliport. #helicopter #photography

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LongLegsAndNeck. I just got home after a chilly wander down to the Wandle, where the newly resident little egret was fishing under the weir bridge, feeling its way over the slippery stones. #birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #wildlifephotography #heron #egret

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

Cognitive and computer scientist (and AI philosopher) Douglas Hofstadter's Le Ton Beau De Marot is a meditation on language and translation, that happens to also be one of the saddest books I've read. His thesis is that translation is a complex and very human art that is not one for machines...

Forks Out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJxz...

New billboard outside our local tube station. Now my new profile banner.

My current workout video series is the Weta Thunderbirds Are Go, which is really rather enjoyable. However every time Scott Tracy says "See you in the sky" I keep expecting to see @jebbrooks.bsky.social...

Today's #HolidayRobin is sat on a fence down by the Wandle. #birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #wildlifephotography

This is going to be a cosy mystery. Cosy, like a wook sweater. I love it!

My @tmbg.bsky.social Homestar Runner shirt arrived. So it’s back to the Internet of the oughts…

Today's #BirdOfTheday Theme is #OpenWings; a bird with its wings open but not flying. So here's a great grey heron strolling down the Wandle delta on a summer morning, shading the river with its wings as it hunts. #birds #birding #wandle #wandsworth #herons #wildlifephotography