@nicolawriting.bsky.social anticipation is building. Gardening to do first as it has stopped raining

Vol 1 of Audubon's Birds is on display at the John Ryland library in Manchester. Showing is this amazing page. Also featured on the posters @everyheron.bsky.social Lots of other amazing stuff and an out of this world Gothic building.

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Redshanks Alighting’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Beautiful

Listen

@everyheron.bsky.social cable box art near the beck in Meanwood, Leeds. After seeing their smaller white cousin.

And England will surely follow? If there is justice @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social will succeed, so much energy has been expended.

#ThickTrunkTuesday. Near Hampton Wick

Ripples in sand, Wester Ross.

#TeamMoth tallies for 2025 Allotment 164 of 47 species 9 NFG Home 143 of 42 species 19 NFG A fairly "wild" allotment site in a city park versus 16m2 of back yard in the terraces - been a funny year. I know many of you catch more than the combined annual total in one night Thanks 4 ID help

3 dreadful photos of a puzzler (to me) from August in Central Leeds #TeamMoth any suggestions to add another to my pitifully lower number for spp for 2025?

An oddly marked grass moth from Jul25, any thoughts #TeamMoth @mothiduk.bsky.social Grey wet day and submission deadline approaches

Snow Melt - by Scottish painter and printmaker, Victoria Crowe More of this artist's stunning work, here: www.victoriacrowe.com #art #landscapes #trees

Oh for some wings

Wow !

The case of the curious sheep #coast #photography #sea #photo #nature #wales #cymru

@felicityhannah.bsky.social Here’s some fun😄

A cracking afternoon on Gt Whernside. The tree trunk gatepost should be a sketch, but it was the evening for Paddington 2

"Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw" "Les Misérables" Victor Hugo 🎨 'Peregrine' Keith Hope Shackleton #BookologyThursday

Any thoughts @marburybirds.bsky.social no where near as dark as yours last night. @mothiduk.bsky.social

#ThinkTrunkTuesday the two maples in Burley Park, Leeds

#TeamMoth. Just one from last night. I've got to maybe a chestnut? I nearly got a photo of the wings spread but had warmed it too much on my hand. Underwing pale, I think. One of those deep red brick moths that almost goes to engineering brick blue in some lights.

Anyone on #teammoth trying tonight. Mild and dry, so giving it a go. I will see in the morning if I get more than just damp egg boxes

#adoorablethursday Some may say it is a gate. Fine all the same. The West door of the Piece Hall Halifax #NoContextDoors

Oh the special access, patiently waiting for the light, and just a little kit and skill?

At @yspsculpture.bsky.social this afternoon Lots of great stuff to see. Rosie’s boyfriend got great views of his first kingfisher. Need to go back to see the main exhibition as we started late.

They don't make'em like that anymore. Gate detail from Bretton Hall Estate.

@saocousins.bsky.social Snorri and his two companions do Christmas carols. Gathering winter fuel We three kings Etc

Almost Elmer the story book elephant.

@everyheron.bsky.social thee heron on Leeds University campus. It.ised to.have a Twitter account.

Enjoy your weekends starting with this.

The only moth from three traps on a chilly Sunday night, at the start of a busy week. A very neatly marked and smallish plume moth maybe less than 25mm across the wing span. 16th Nov Leeds - from size and markings maybe Beautiful Plume? #TeamMoth

Some thought to be lunch time sketches by Michael Healy of Dublin a stained glass artist, shared for my #Dailydrawing friends - @drrjwarren.bsky.social @saocousins.bsky.social from tonights online talk by David Carron ofr @BSMGP

A beautiful description @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social

'Til Burnam Wood?

Dancing birches

Not #FirstBirdofMyDay but I spied these "sails" in the distance on my cycle home from.the station this morning. First bird was the jury of jackdaws in the birch at Mum's. I forgot to take a photo, the winds have stripped the top half but the lower sheltered branches remain in yellow FYI swans

@everyheron.bsky.social absolutely mirror conditions in the old Power Station lagoon today.

A single crow call answered by a triple the silence. At 5.30. A crow lazily glided over the terrace ridge as I left to cycle to the station. I saw several more along the way. Fab dawn. Belated #FirstBirdofMyDay

A heron enjoying the morning sunshine by the River Kent above Staveley. Phone shot so don't click in @everyheron.bsky.social

@saocousins.bsky.social @lakesstiles.bsky.social a first for me a ladder stile with gate. Complete with police notice about offload bikes. Hutton Roof Crags

#dailydrawing weekend break 3 if 3 has begun. Why do I set myself these challenges. But continuing the colour theme ! Too much train joggles to try paint. So now to enjoy south of Berwick view in a wet dusk. Maybe one evening this week, but a lot of deadlines. @saocousins.bsky.social @@DrRJWarren

#Dailydrawing weekend break. 2 of 3? Will I manage another on the train home? And fill the sketch book. I think I could have nudged the red render a few notches higher. Dunfermline town. @drrjwarren.bsky.social @saocousins.bsky.social

You have to love a bit of good graphic spoof.

#dailydrawing occasionally. The former St Anne's Oratory Randolph Place Edinburgh. It's c 1900 Arts and Crafts facade a contrast to the surrounding New Town Once shop of W W Macfarlane interior designer @drrjwarren.bsky.social @saocousins.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @fotofacade.bsky.social

@saocousins.bsky.social @drrjwarren.bsky.social I am not sending team challenges

@saocousins.bsky.social @drrjwarren.bsky.social

@mothiduk.bsky.social asking the wider team hasn't helped this time.