Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

I bet the Venn diagram of people moaning about British Summer Time and those doing dawn breeding bird surveys is two pretty distant circles.

Changed the battery on my laptop last night and feeling moderately pleased with myself.

Letting US military launch attacks from UK bases is complicit in acts of terrorism and also putting the live of British people at risk

Tortilla selfie.

Fook

When Scooby Doo is asked to name his favorite supermarket:

via Expose Racism

“Guess who!”

Lots of sniffy centrists in the comments. Desperately hoping that when push comes to shove, people will remember that the Norwegian Blue is the most animated of birds.

I wonder if people might start to question the narrative that a Green vote is a wasted vote?

If Reform amd Restore want to make themselves more popular they could always take a leaf out of Oswald Mosley's book and start headbutting bricks.

Our latest tactical voting advice to stop Reform: stopreformuk.vote/parl/gorton-... Parliamentary by-election 26th Feb 2026 🟢 Gorton & Denton = GREEN #Manchester #ByElection

I thought that this was a hillside at first!

Some mudlarking finds survived for centuries in the muddy banks of the River Thames. Others are freshly baked tasty snacks. 🍪 This biscuit (cookie) set recreates ten of the 350+ mudlarked objects in London Museum's Secrets of the Thames exhibition. The exhibition closes on 1 March. Don’t miss it!

Delighted to hear this.

Good for Finkelstein, letting Epstein know exactly what he thought of him.

Reminder that of all the people complicit in Epstein's crimes, the only person actually held accountable and sentenced was a woman. No men involved have yet to face consequences.

Rattled off a very hasty reply to a client earlier. Luckily I noticed the autocorrect in the sign off before I hit send! Would they have thought I was getting fruity or just very tired?

There are few Baikal Teal (Sibirionetta formosa 花脸鸭 Huāliǎn yā) wintering at the Yellow River estuary in Shandong Province. Photo by "菜小hua". #birds #china #yellowriver

“I just saw a boat full of scouts go speeding past” “How many knots were they doing?” “All of them”.

Been looking through lots of old photographs recently. This is me between 1986 and 1989 (16 to 18). This would pretty much the typical view of me at this time. #wildflowerhour

Slightly random one... Wondering if there might be a Manchester/Salford birder who might be thinking of heading over for the Speke grackle tomorrow (maybe the roost?), please drop us a DM 👍 (...and if you've got a spare pair of bins, even better 😉😂). Thanks v much, Mark #manchesterbirders #grackle

Four of my #winterten for #wildflowerhour Hazel, Cut-leaved Deadnettle, Lesser Celandine and Common Fumitory.

Holy hell, what an obituary

Looking at rhe disparity of skill sets here. We need an invertebrate equivalent of FISC!

The Mersey

✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️

From Radio and Other Poems (Rockingham Press, 1999)

Anybody confused about what to call full moons in any of the months. Here's a list. January-Full Moon February-Full Moon March-Full Moon April-Full Moon May-Full Moon June-Full Moon July-Full Moon August-Full Moon September-Full Moon October-Full Moon November-Full Moon December-Full Moon

Labour need to get rid of Starmer right now. Install a leader with backbone and work from there. Whether there's anything worth saving is arguable, a handful of MPs maybe?

Parasitism

It really hasn't felt much like December over the last two days. Gloves abandoned, hat ( and nearly coat) at times too. Common Wasp, Mayflies and Buff-tailed Bumblebee on the wing, seven species of birds singing.

Great views of this Common Pipistrelle this afternoon. Feeding just overhead for half an hour.

#WinterTen for #Wildflowerhour Oxeye Daisy, Musk Mallow, Common Flax, Common Knapweed, Common Vetch, Cow Parsley, Cock's-foot, Sticky Mouse-ear, Spear Thistle and False Oat-grass.

Anyone with a phone plan managed to leave O2 after recent price rises? Phone bought through Samsung but with O2 contract. O2 say that there's no way of telling me how much the phone costs vs Airtime (data, calls etc). I don't believe them.

Second part of my dozen #winterten for #wildflowerhour White Campion, Ribbed Melilot, Hogweed, Pansy, Crimson Clover a d Wild Angelica.

First six of my #winterten for #wildflowerhour Buckwheat, Chicory, Red Dead-nettle, Redshank, Meadowsweet and Holly.

Contacting Liverpool Council about paying a motoring fine. Will it take 5 attempts? Will I be ignored every single time? Like the time that they told me they'd be taking away the defunct disabled parking bay and associated street junk from outside my house? Wish me luck.

I've never seen a fasciated banana before.

Five more makes 11 for my #winterten #wildflowerhour

The first 6 of a #Winterten for #wildflowerhour

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Nothing new under the sun. St Methodius giving St Cyril the 'bunny ears' treatment on Charles Bridge Prague.

I knew she reminded me of somebody.

A time of joy and happiness for everybody. Apart from these two obviously.

Thinking back to the summer when I was watching birds passing over really high over Arnside. I noticed something unidentified that seemed to be falling from a height (perhaps 1000 metres). Started off as a speck but as it fell I still couldn't identify it.

A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans. (Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form). www.worldofmoose.com

Thanks to @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social for the news on this Great White Egret along Estuary Boulevard in Speke. Photographed with my phone from the car. Incredibly tame. This was the first bird that I twitched, back in 1981 at Penmaenpool when I think there were less than 10 post 1954 records!