Paul Quigley
@paulquigs.bsky.social
Interested in democratic control of wealth and power. Trade-unionist. Urban-sketcher (https://instagram.com/paulquigs?ig). Birdlistener. Industrial/urban/landscape archaeology. Irish genealogy.
Many of us in England only see the raising of these flags as a way to intimate and exclude. And he's right, there is a link between the flags and the racist attacks in the UK ... they're part of a deliberately created hostile environment. The flags aren't welcome
#notinmyname
#standuptoracism
#notinmyname
#standuptoracism
October 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Many of us in England only see the raising of these flags as a way to intimate and exclude. And he's right, there is a link between the flags and the racist attacks in the UK ... they're part of a deliberately created hostile environment. The flags aren't welcome
#notinmyname
#standuptoracism
#notinmyname
#standuptoracism
This might be a first for me. The alarm call of a mistle thrush.
I'm told that some have said that it sounds like a machine gun or a football rattle (if anyone knows that that is anymore).
I'm told that some have said that it sounds like a machine gun or a football rattle (if anyone knows that that is anymore).
September 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This might be a first for me. The alarm call of a mistle thrush.
I'm told that some have said that it sounds like a machine gun or a football rattle (if anyone knows that that is anymore).
I'm told that some have said that it sounds like a machine gun or a football rattle (if anyone knows that that is anymore).
View from the River Severn at #Worcester.
#urbansketching #graphite #pencildrawing #art #drawing #illustration #urbansketch #urbansketchers
#urbansketching #graphite #pencildrawing #art #drawing #illustration #urbansketch #urbansketchers
July 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
View from the River Severn at #Worcester.
#urbansketching #graphite #pencildrawing #art #drawing #illustration #urbansketch #urbansketchers
#urbansketching #graphite #pencildrawing #art #drawing #illustration #urbansketch #urbansketchers
I've just read that "humpback whales participate in the largest communication network on earth - outside of what we have created"
among other facinating stuff in this book by @rebeccagiggs.bsky.social
#nature #bioacoustics #whalesong
among other facinating stuff in this book by @rebeccagiggs.bsky.social
#nature #bioacoustics #whalesong
July 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I've just read that "humpback whales participate in the largest communication network on earth - outside of what we have created"
among other facinating stuff in this book by @rebeccagiggs.bsky.social
#nature #bioacoustics #whalesong
among other facinating stuff in this book by @rebeccagiggs.bsky.social
#nature #bioacoustics #whalesong
A couple of sketches of #Droitwich #Worcestershire at the end of last week
#drawing #art #illustration #urbansketching #urban_sketchers #urbansketch #urbansketchers
#drawing #art #illustration #urbansketching #urban_sketchers #urbansketch #urbansketchers
June 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A couple of sketches of #Droitwich #Worcestershire at the end of last week
#drawing #art #illustration #urbansketching #urban_sketchers #urbansketch #urbansketchers
#drawing #art #illustration #urbansketching #urban_sketchers #urbansketch #urbansketchers
Feedback to our local museum:
"What has been most surprising for us tourists has been that British #museums collect other countries' artefacts. What gives you the right to keep them? ... Give the artefacts back"
www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/birmingham-m...
"What has been most surprising for us tourists has been that British #museums collect other countries' artefacts. What gives you the right to keep them? ... Give the artefacts back"
www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/birmingham-m...
May 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Feedback to our local museum:
"What has been most surprising for us tourists has been that British #museums collect other countries' artefacts. What gives you the right to keep them? ... Give the artefacts back"
www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/birmingham-m...
"What has been most surprising for us tourists has been that British #museums collect other countries' artefacts. What gives you the right to keep them? ... Give the artefacts back"
www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/birmingham-m...
Quick sketch yesterday of the canal running through Tardebigge Locks in #Worcestershire.
#pencildrawing #art #illustration #urbansketching #urban_sketchers #urbansketch
#pencildrawing #art #illustration #urbansketching #urban_sketchers #urbansketch
May 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Quick sketch yesterday of the canal running through Tardebigge Locks in #Worcestershire.
#pencildrawing #art #illustration #urbansketching #urban_sketchers #urbansketch
#pencildrawing #art #illustration #urbansketching #urban_sketchers #urbansketch
Most people expect to hear a knocking sound, but the Great Spotted Woodpecker also has a short 'chip' call. I recorded this one today near my house in the urban West Mids
#birds #birdsong #bioacoustics
www.british-birdsongs.uk/great-spotte...
@ecorecord.bsky.social @bbcwildlifetrust.bsky.social
#birds #birdsong #bioacoustics
www.british-birdsongs.uk/great-spotte...
@ecorecord.bsky.social @bbcwildlifetrust.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Most people expect to hear a knocking sound, but the Great Spotted Woodpecker also has a short 'chip' call. I recorded this one today near my house in the urban West Mids
#birds #birdsong #bioacoustics
www.british-birdsongs.uk/great-spotte...
@ecorecord.bsky.social @bbcwildlifetrust.bsky.social
#birds #birdsong #bioacoustics
www.british-birdsongs.uk/great-spotte...
@ecorecord.bsky.social @bbcwildlifetrust.bsky.social
Chuffed to get to 500 followers! Here's Bristol Street and Holloway Circus, #Birmingham UK.
#art #drawing #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketch ##urbansketchers
#art #drawing #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketch ##urbansketchers
April 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Chuffed to get to 500 followers! Here's Bristol Street and Holloway Circus, #Birmingham UK.
#art #drawing #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketch ##urbansketchers
#art #drawing #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketch ##urbansketchers
I drew what's now called 1 Centenary Square when it was being built as offices for the multinational HSBC. This site has a chequered history, being once home to an iron foundry, a masonic hall, and TV studios.
#drawing #illustration #urbansketch #urbansketchers #urbansketching #art
#drawing #illustration #urbansketch #urbansketchers #urbansketching #art
April 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I drew what's now called 1 Centenary Square when it was being built as offices for the multinational HSBC. This site has a chequered history, being once home to an iron foundry, a masonic hall, and TV studios.
#drawing #illustration #urbansketch #urbansketchers #urbansketching #art
#drawing #illustration #urbansketch #urbansketchers #urbansketching #art
I'm sure you'll be familiar with the idea that T Rex and chickens are related.
But I'm still getting my head around the idea (put by @oddpride.com) that by the time T Rex had evolved, birds in general were already as old as primates are now.
#birds #evolution #paleontology #Cretaceous
But I'm still getting my head around the idea (put by @oddpride.com) that by the time T Rex had evolved, birds in general were already as old as primates are now.
#birds #evolution #paleontology #Cretaceous
April 15, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I'm sure you'll be familiar with the idea that T Rex and chickens are related.
But I'm still getting my head around the idea (put by @oddpride.com) that by the time T Rex had evolved, birds in general were already as old as primates are now.
#birds #evolution #paleontology #Cretaceous
But I'm still getting my head around the idea (put by @oddpride.com) that by the time T Rex had evolved, birds in general were already as old as primates are now.
#birds #evolution #paleontology #Cretaceous
Fancy Fabrics. Corner of Meriden Street and #Digbeth #Birmingham.
#Art #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketchers #urbansketch #pencildrawing #streetscene
#Art #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketchers #urbansketch #pencildrawing #streetscene
April 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Fancy Fabrics. Corner of Meriden Street and #Digbeth #Birmingham.
#Art #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketchers #urbansketch #pencildrawing #streetscene
#Art #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketchers #urbansketch #pencildrawing #streetscene
I've been asked "whose fur is this?" (found on an urban allotment in the English West Midlands).
Fox?
@ecorecord.bsky.social @bbcwildlifetrust.bsky.social @worcswt.bsky.social #urbanwildlife
Fox?
@ecorecord.bsky.social @bbcwildlifetrust.bsky.social @worcswt.bsky.social #urbanwildlife
April 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
I've been asked "whose fur is this?" (found on an urban allotment in the English West Midlands).
Fox?
@ecorecord.bsky.social @bbcwildlifetrust.bsky.social @worcswt.bsky.social #urbanwildlife
Fox?
@ecorecord.bsky.social @bbcwildlifetrust.bsky.social @worcswt.bsky.social #urbanwildlife
One thing you learn when you're #birdlistening on a regular route is that the same birds are there to greet you. There's often a #nuthatch in this big old tree, fighting to be heard above the traffic noise
#birds #bioacoustics #urbanwildlife
#birds #bioacoustics #urbanwildlife
April 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
One thing you learn when you're #birdlistening on a regular route is that the same birds are there to greet you. There's often a #nuthatch in this big old tree, fighting to be heard above the traffic noise
#birds #bioacoustics #urbanwildlife
#birds #bioacoustics #urbanwildlife
The new Kepax walking and cycling bridge over the River #Severn in north #Worcester
#pencildrawing #drawing #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketch ##urbansketchers #art
#pencildrawing #drawing #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketch ##urbansketchers #art
April 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The new Kepax walking and cycling bridge over the River #Severn in north #Worcester
#pencildrawing #drawing #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketch ##urbansketchers #art
#pencildrawing #drawing #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketch ##urbansketchers #art
Sand Martins (or Bank Swallows to some) seem to be enjoying weaving in and out of the railway viaduct arches in the sun today.
maps.app.goo.gl/woqWyLhUKpXD...
#Worcester #birdsong #bioacoustics
@worcswt.bsky.social
maps.app.goo.gl/woqWyLhUKpXD...
#Worcester #birdsong #bioacoustics
@worcswt.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Sand Martins (or Bank Swallows to some) seem to be enjoying weaving in and out of the railway viaduct arches in the sun today.
maps.app.goo.gl/woqWyLhUKpXD...
#Worcester #birdsong #bioacoustics
@worcswt.bsky.social
maps.app.goo.gl/woqWyLhUKpXD...
#Worcester #birdsong #bioacoustics
@worcswt.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It was a cloudless day in Dublin as we said goodbye to Dad. Like many 000s of children of #motherandbabyhomes, he went without ever knowing what happened to his mother or even who she was.
Really, no one should be made to feel that shame or be denied that part of their identity
Really, no one should be made to feel that shame or be denied that part of their identity
April 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
It was a cloudless day in Dublin as we said goodbye to Dad. Like many 000s of children of #motherandbabyhomes, he went without ever knowing what happened to his mother or even who she was.
Really, no one should be made to feel that shame or be denied that part of their identity
Really, no one should be made to feel that shame or be denied that part of their identity
I like the fact that the Great Tit has one of those names that contradicts itself, 'great' meaning large and 'tit' meaning small.
Let's just say that it's largest of the small ones.
#birdsong #bioacoustics #birds #etymology
Let's just say that it's largest of the small ones.
#birdsong #bioacoustics #birds #etymology
March 31, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I like the fact that the Great Tit has one of those names that contradicts itself, 'great' meaning large and 'tit' meaning small.
Let's just say that it's largest of the small ones.
#birdsong #bioacoustics #birds #etymology
Let's just say that it's largest of the small ones.
#birdsong #bioacoustics #birds #etymology
This book has been in my family for nearly sixty years. I loved it as a boy, and it fed my early interest in wildlife. Now its pages feel like old friends.
@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social #birds #nature
@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social #birds #nature
March 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This book has been in my family for nearly sixty years. I loved it as a boy, and it fed my early interest in wildlife. Now its pages feel like old friends.
@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social #birds #nature
@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social #birds #nature
The corner of Ludgate Hill from St Paul's Square #jewelleryquarter #Birmingham
#art #drawing #illustration #pencildrawing #urbansketching #urban_sketchers ##urbansketch
#art #drawing #illustration #pencildrawing #urbansketching #urban_sketchers ##urbansketch
March 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The corner of Ludgate Hill from St Paul's Square #jewelleryquarter #Birmingham
#art #drawing #illustration #pencildrawing #urbansketching #urban_sketchers ##urbansketch
#art #drawing #illustration #pencildrawing #urbansketching #urban_sketchers ##urbansketch
Taking cover on a wet day at #jewelleryquarter station, #Birmingham.
#art #drawing #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketchers #urbansketch #whiteonblack #blackpaper
#art #drawing #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketchers #urbansketch #whiteonblack #blackpaper
March 10, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Taking cover on a wet day at #jewelleryquarter station, #Birmingham.
#art #drawing #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketchers #urbansketch #whiteonblack #blackpaper
#art #drawing #illustration #urbansketching #urbansketchers #urbansketch #whiteonblack #blackpaper
'TAX THE RICH ...' is nearly always a good start to a headline
@expressandstar.com 7th Feb 2025.
@tw-green-party.bsky.social
@brumgreens.bsky.social
@expressandstar.com 7th Feb 2025.
@tw-green-party.bsky.social
@brumgreens.bsky.social
March 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
'TAX THE RICH ...' is nearly always a good start to a headline
@expressandstar.com 7th Feb 2025.
@tw-green-party.bsky.social
@brumgreens.bsky.social
@expressandstar.com 7th Feb 2025.
@tw-green-party.bsky.social
@brumgreens.bsky.social
Nothing like an early morning yaffle.
#birding #birds #birdsong #bioacoustics
@bbcwildlifetrust.bsky.social @ecorecord.bsky.social
#birding #birds #birdsong #bioacoustics
@bbcwildlifetrust.bsky.social @ecorecord.bsky.social
March 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Nothing like an early morning yaffle.
#birding #birds #birdsong #bioacoustics
@bbcwildlifetrust.bsky.social @ecorecord.bsky.social
#birding #birds #birdsong #bioacoustics
@bbcwildlifetrust.bsky.social @ecorecord.bsky.social
Carding Mill Valley #Shropshire. Two minute sketch. It was freezing. Couldn't wait to get my fingers back in my pockets
#pencildrawing #art #illustration #sketching
#pencildrawing #art #illustration #sketching
March 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Carding Mill Valley #Shropshire. Two minute sketch. It was freezing. Couldn't wait to get my fingers back in my pockets
#pencildrawing #art #illustration #sketching
#pencildrawing #art #illustration #sketching