Nature is so relaxing

Spring is in the air

Hellball replaced by What the hellball #boro

#wildflowerhour Marsh marigold on the banks of the River Shannon last week

Easter eggs benedict. Getting easier to make as I'm training up the 11yo to help and I now don't have to drop everything to dig out some ice to stop it splitting.

ok It probably didnt happen today, but this should still come as a wake-up call. are you prepared? you dont want to get caught with room temperature champagne

Bit bloody windy here up in the hills but a great excuse to post this great little website earth.nullschool.net#current/wind...

I hate football #boro

It's time to repost this Easter masterpiece

Sailors fighting in the dance hall Oh man! Look at those cavemen go

@robzacny.bsky.social listening to Rob's compound pod and I'm assuming the word labyrinthitis has entered your life by now. Had it twice. Horrible.

Can I offer you some tadpoles at the trying time

Little gull today - i think I'm still in single figures with sightings of these so I'm chuffed. 🪶 Excuse the dodgiest of record shots - screen grab from a digiscoped handheld vid so not bad all things considered - but it's a good enough bird to justify putting it up here imho.

Fieldwork fun. At one time this would've freaked me right out but now I know bullocks are no bother. All mouth and no trousers.

🚀 Incredible movement alert! Our @PulsarWild sponsored CTT-tagged Jack Snipe has just completed an astonishing journey reaching Belgium from Staffordshire in just 7 hours 9 minutes! 🇬🇧➡️🇧🇪 That’s an average speed of 30+ mph for one of our most elusive and secretive species. 🤯

When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet. This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'

Less than 5 mins later

Oh to be in Ireland, now that Spring is there. Lovely blue skies this morning so headed out to get a VP watch done. And...

One of the little known range of books Ladybird made for POWs

Coconuts

Random hagstone I found hanging from a branch

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Here's something you may not have thought about. Chickens 🐔 have ears 👂. Good so far? Chickens have EARLOBES. 🤯 Also interesting fact, they're a general guide to the color eggs the chicken will lay (white=white vs red/orange=brown). So why do chickens need earlobes? Why do YOU need earlobes? 😕

Today was the last day to get a job done that I've been putting off and thinking about for weeks. Took me 20 mins. #adhd life

Had my first Sand martins of the year today and literally this minute have heard my first Chiffchaff. Spring be springing. 🪶

Meadow pipit looking magnificent on a gorgeous Spring day 🪶

Hello. Here’s a hare on a Greek coin found in Sicily. It’s an absolute gem. The moulding of the face, whiskers and inner ears are breathtaking for something so small. 🏛️ Mandralisca museum, Céfalu 📷 mine #AncientBlueSky 🏺

I'm about to clean out the wood pellet stove chimney pipe which hasn't been done for, er, let's say a while. I'm sure this will be easy and fun.

When the trees in the garden are in full bloom this is how I imagine them. Pic by John Conway.

The first Magnolia flowers are nearly out. I'm largely indifferent to garden plants (imho gardeners hate nature except for few species. And are a source of invasives) But I love magnolias because they're so ancient (~95mya) that they evolved to be pollinated by beetles because they predate bees.

Beannachtaí lá le Phádraig oraibh! Best Paddy’s Day song ever. Cracks me up every year. #SpeirGorm youtu.be/OCbuRA_D3KU

How many Irish mammies does it take to change a lightbulb? Don't mind me, I'm fine sat here in the dark. You go out and enjoy yourself.

What a buzz - making lasagne, eyeballed the amount of ingredients and filled the container perfectly. Even the pasta sheets I had were exactly the amount I needed.

Unless it's pelting hailstones is it really Paddy's day weekend?

I think about this a lot.

Finally getting near the end of Andor season 2 and... HOLY SHIT THAT'S DAVID ARCHER!! #thearchers

I miss the animals on the old Irish coinage (but still glad to have the Euro)

The 12yo has declared it Picasso Bug Awareness Day! The colours on this gorgeous bug are a warning to predators who are apparently scared of sophisticated patterns in teal, cream, vermillion and black. Also they emit noxious odours when disturbed to say “Stay away! I’m pretty and stink!”

This is Vocal. A cat that chose me 16 (ish) years ago. Shoulder cat par excellence.

'Love is wise, hatred is foolish'

An unusually quiet exit for the renowned 'Watchdog of the Wetlands' 🪶

Redshank debating how much closer it's going to let me get before it shouts at me 🪶

TONIGHT WE HAVE BEEN WATCHING A CLOWN-DISCO.

Skylark 🪶 Phonescoped into the light but you can see what it is

The only thing I miss about Twitter is not being able to do the 'I remember when this were all Stephen Fry getting trapped in a lift' joke anymore

Rivers are living beings.