Heya! I've just imported a second tranche (in 2 years) of follows from Twitter, via "Sky Follower Bridge" chrome extension.

1/2 Back garden in late February's perpetual rain (SLR telephoto shots): - Cherry plum (myrobalan) blossoms popping. - Hyacinthus, planted out. - Weeping daffodils (Narcissus cyclamineus) #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 253

1/2 Jakdaws, common but still impressive: - Beady eye on me, through our fat-ball feeder cage. - Pair flying overhead (they often mate for life). - Huge communal roost taking flight #MEcfsEgress #UKbirds DailyNaturePics 252

1/2 Quick neighbourhood SLR bike this afternoon: - Grape Hyacinths in he sun. - Viburnum, with first proper bee pic of the year! - More daffodils, atop a bare 'dahlia ally'. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 251

Small back garden ground feeder fowl: - Eurasian wren, tiny thing, came surprisingly close to the house. - Dunnock (Hedge sparrow) - Common chaffinch, female, much clearer than previous shot. - Male, in January's snow (some background clutter edited out). DailyNaturePics 250

1/2 Sun's finally been out, and so are the daffodils, everywhere! #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 249

1/2 Birding roundup! First, I took my telephoto to the old pond in the new estate, last month. Lucky to see: - Cormorant, circling overhead! (But camera ISO struggles/glitches.) - Eurasian Coot... - ... Bullying a male Mallard off the water. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 248

Subdued colours, back garden, away from the feeder: - 'Mummy' blackbird, on our luscious moss-lawn, by the snowdrops. - Crow in an silhouetted cedar. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 247

Lot of water about on yesterday's little SLR ride, spurred by a peep of evening sunshine, amid the endless showers... - Barely budding branch (maybe Blackthorn) over stream - Trees still naked (in a puddle) - Viburnum - Camellia #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 246

Too rainy to ride, so took a short walk, found some more colour braving the perpetual wet. - Yellow crocuses - Oregon-grape (I think, not Mahonia), budding - Eastern Cyclamen #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 245

- Crocuses popping up! Almost a year since I first made it far enough on foot to find some one street over! bsky.app/profile/z3r0... - Phalaenopsis Orchid, a Christmas gift, sitting in the sunny spot I could find, not over a radiator. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 244

1/2 Telephoto #BirdWatching Part 3: - Blue tit (Eurasian), on a metal tree. - Robin (European), stumped, with me sat at end of garden. - Goldfinch (European), one of a bunch (see below)... DailyNaturePics 243

1/2 Bird Watch Part 2: - Our crows are so wary, rare to get a close up. - Black Headed Gulls in their winter plumage (not Mediterranean or Common)!? - More overleaf... Shot from kitchen, so not really #MEcfsEgress, but bit of a workout lifting the telephoto! DailyNaturePics 242

Behold Jupiter and its moons Ganymede, Io and Calisto! I did not think about my new 450mm equivalent (at max zoom) telephoto lens enabling my old 16.2MP SLR to image these, when I snapped the bright dot on a whim! Details in image [ALT]s... #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 241

1/2 - Saw my first full rainbow of the year while out today! - Dramatic skies reflected in puddle. - Some snowdrops out in the back garden. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 240

1/2 Unexpected trip to drive Mum to the garden centre today. So have a random splash of Winter colour! - Mini-daffodils - Hyacinths - Cyclamen ... And in-store cat that looked a lot like ours (below). #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 239

1/3 I made an effort to process some of the back garden bird photos I've been taking this month, seeing as it's the #BigGardenBirdWatch this weekend! - Long-tailed Tits - Nuthatch, yesterday. - Great Tit, close up to the kitchen window. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 238

1/ New Belgian study findings consistent with key part of BornFree disease model for #MEcfs, #Fibromyalgia, #LongCovid, etc: we're chronic morphine producers!?! They found downregulation of μ-opioid receptors, via increased methylation of promoter genes. bsky.app/profile/mecf...

1/2 SLR ride winter shots from earlier in the week when we had a lighter dusting of snow: - Lone Gorse bush blooming in front of farm fields at dusk. - Felled log in the managed woods. - Frozen crop field. - Frozen woodland pond. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 237

Misty on this afternoon's bike ride, looking over the fields. Then an hour of intense snow this evening, just after both elderly parents went out to different meetings... Worried me, but drove back safe. WeeklyWinterBits more than DailyNaturePics 236..?

Full #moon rise huge tonight! Whipped out my SLR and then post-processed two exposures into this one. Ground's frozen, but little snow. Got my 4yo OnePlus 8T back, free £215 screen repair. Takes way nicer photos, but used to bigger screen, hmm. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 235

I threw together a year in review life recap for old Facebook friends & family: zerogravitashealth.blogspot.com/2025/12/my-2... Many of you will have already seen me post much of this over the last year or my improvements, struggles and DailyNaturePics.

1/2 Christmas special #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 234! - Some of the most festively decorated front gardens in the area. - Florists' chrysanthemums, I've been saving for a special occasion, since October. Cream coloured to complement previous lilac and yellow.

Most interesting sci-tech YT vid in a while: Hank interviews Virginia Postrel on the history of textiles (and cordage). - Reframes civilisational developement: textiles necessitated agriculture more than food. - Viking boat build limited by sails. - Many idioms/words. 1/2

Testing the lacklustre camera in my new/stand-in phone (cheaper optics, ugly post-processing with limited options). Only usable screen of 5 bought & tried. - #SkySaturday, bike today - Skimmia, again but wet - Long leafed back garden plant #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 233

1/2 #ThrowbackThursday or FrobackFriday (Aug & 3x May): - Marigolds, in a cul-de-sac - Foxglove, drier shot than: x.https//x.com/Z3R0G... - Hedgerow Crane's-bill, front of house - Wood Avens (Geum urbanum) in lilly leaves #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 232

#WildLifeWednesday - 2025 Christmas clear-out!: - Hedgehog wandered right up to me (Sept) - Blackbird on manouvers (May, SLR) - Swallow-tailed(?) moth (Aug) and... - Crane fly (Aug), both stuck inside, mood. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 231

1/2 #TreeTuesday! Just barely!: - This big old oak by the main road, eerily deserted for a moment on a Sunday bike ride, in November. - The crinkly leaf carpet, below. - Looking out from inside the tree tunnel (left of first pic). #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 230

Abelia grandifolia (Vesalea grandifolia) blooms were still looking good quite recently: - Down the hill, late November. Same plant, early September: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... - Across the main road. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 229

1/2 Always cool seeing big general science YouTube channels cover our chronic illnesses. Perhaps sad that them just calling the scale of the problem right is a thrill... But Anton Petrov actually informed me on NETs -> microclots, from a #TeamClots study, earlier this year.

Winter blooming evergreen shrubs I thought heather. PlantNet disagrees, apparently there's a subtle difference..: - Cornish heath (Erica vagans), end of Nov short walk. - Heath (Erica carnea), from this Wednesday's SLR jaunt. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 228

1/2 - Wednesday's SLR ride turned into a clear #SkySaturday moon shoot, floating atop this tree. - After wisely declining this sunny but overgrown and muddy footpath out into countryside. - Tree-fingers reaching up, "No Cycling" down here though. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 227

#FruitFriday - from the last few days: - Epigynous berries ('false fruit') of our Fuchsia plant. - Yellow crab apples reminiscent of seasonal baubles. - Stag's-horn Sumac tree's weird 'drupe'. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 226

1/2 #ThrowbackThursday - "May to December", as they say (and an old British sitcom)... Well technically late April to Nov here. Almost my full DNP run... Same street, blossoms to bare. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 225

#RoseWednesday? Thought I'd posted my last this year, found more today!: - Wichura's rose(?), road I've never been. - Another pair, in red, on the way home. - Tea rose, tub under pollarded willow. - Place settings Mum brought home. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 224

1/2 #TreeTuesday - a silly sentimental one for our Salix (Puzzle Willow?) tree which got pollarded last Friday (should be OK, heh)... It's been my shade & shelter, out back, for years. Rarely drooping surprises as I bloomscroll posted on laptop (after dusk). DailyNaturePics 223

Miserable Monday outside! But inside we have: - Hyacinth bulbs mum planted, busting out almost perceptibly! - Supermarket flowers (Chrysanthemums?). - Pachyphytum/Graptopetalum succulent babies, hanging in since: x.com/Z3R0Gravitas... #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 222

1/2 #SkySunday (previously known as 'SkySaturday', shh!): - To-be-developed housing estate land doing an impression of the Everglades. - The sky fell down to earth, last week; low thick mist with stars above. - AI edited image, details below... #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 221

1/2 Scruffy Saturday - the Strawflowers/Paper daisies (Xerochrysum bracteatum), up the road, have been slowly growing taller, scruffier & more wet weather beleaguered. So let's rewind to their past glory! First, November, then... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 220

1/2 #FruitFriday - The main splashes of natural colour outside are now inedible berries. SLR shots: - Hawthorn (Crataegus), railway ride. - Lichen encrusted branch, decorative or ugly..? - Sorbus/Rowan branch, in October sun... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 219

#ThrowbackThursday - We deserve some cheer! So let's pop back to a mid-October SLR revisit of Dahlia ally front garden. Starting with Verbesina encelioides (American dogweed?) not posted before. Previously: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 218

1/2 #HedgerowWednesday - Gonna drop these here instead of Shallow Focus Sunday. SLR rides a month back: - European beech, front of my old school. - Longer view. - Cypress/Juniper evergreen, tussled, webbed & glistening from rain. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 217

1/2 #TreeTuesday, or an early #WoodWednesday? SLR Railway ride 3: - Gloriously gnarled old Black poplar(?) looks like a perfect nesting hole! - Younger trunk, but you can feel that rough texture! Sorry, no ID. - This one's seen some violence. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 216

1/2 #MacroMonday - SLR shots, abandoned railway ride 2: - Even a dishevelled Blackberry stem can strike a dramatic pose with this light! - Red & green. - White Dead-nettle + guest... - Ivy, back home, this how ladybirds hibernate? #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 215

1/2 On my longest (by mistake) SLR bike ride, a fortnight ago before it was so cold, I traversed a fun track paralleling an abandoned railway... ... Found a pretty #sunset and some (distant) sheeps! Macro shots tomorrow. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 214

Scruffy Saturday - suburban SLR exploration B-roll from last month: - Weigela (florida?), one decent bloom on a tall bush. - Cheeseweed (Malvaceae). - Horseweed (or maybe Fleabane again). - Rose (Austrian copper?). #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 213

1/2 Pampas-grass, or PlantNet says "Cortaderia selloana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Asch. & Graebn"! Their feathery inflorescent plumes look refined in all seasons. I hunted neighbourhood examples in September - the impressive clump in (SLR) shot 2... #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 212

#ThrowbackThursday: - St John's-wort bush at the front is *still* popping out single hopeful blooms! - This bee from early June, looong gone. - Great Hairy Willow-herb, hiding beneath. - Rear bush, July: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 211

#HedgerowWednesday - what do these fine textures remind you of..?: - Sunlit Juniperus (maybe) makes me think: green cloth for cue sports. - Thuja and/or Juniperus(?), look almost sanded vs trimmed. - Ilex(?), so spherical, might float away! #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 210

#TreeTuesday - mid-October sunny SLR ride evergreens!: - Windmill Palm (Trachycarpus fortunei), seems unlikely in our clime. - Monkey puzzle, neater than ours. - Satisfying join of 3 ornamental conifers. - Pine (Pinus) offering a needled hand..? #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 209