The resident male Sparrowhawk, he normally pops here at 1.30pm to check the feeders for any bird not wise enough to hide.
He does strike some nice poses for me :)

Exceedingly large walking Birch. Place Fell.

I’m new to bluesky and dont have a clue how to do anything. I am into environmental stuff and visit Spain to survey moths for half the year - here is my well used moth field guide. Please let me know who I should follow? I’m green and socialist and european!

Tons of woody debris of all ages, shifting gravel and roots of Peticites hybridus will fast-forward this slack into Ash/Elm/Alder alluvial woodland. Once common along Northern spate rivers, now one of the rarest.

Being a rubbish birder probably stems from early Observers Book of Birds. Early ones had alternate B&W and coloured plates. Without exception I'm sure every bird spotted was to be found on the B&W page. There were no coloured birds in UK when I were a lad.

More file editing; Parnassia palustris L., Grass of Parnassus, Sefton dunes, Merseyside, 18-08-2018
One of the most exquisite of wildflowers

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Dead Ash limb with the bark off and thorn like growth on cambium. Don't see a lot of ash here so not sure what's occurring.

No 1 son is climbing in one of the most truly wild and remote places on Earth and has sent a few photos. Up till now conservationists and locals have kept loggers and developers at bay. Hopefully this will continue. I am an optimist but not optimistic.

Lichen people. A bit of impromptu gutter cleaning last week. Big arts and crafts pile with lots of roof. Among the thousands of blue slates, about half a dozen had very neat square lichen. Seems to colonise a particular slate but reluctant to go further. What's happening?

Detail of Jonas Moore's 1658 #map shows the ancient course of the Old Well Stream winding from R to L through the peat #fens N of Cambridge, with ribbon development along its silty banks; once the course of the R Ouse - & now cut by 2 parallel mid17thC canals (1/2)

This is me tame colony of cobalt crust. It lives in and around an old firewood crate (still in use). Thought I'd lost it till I turned the crate over. The Chieftain Tank of wood eaters.