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Chris Duffield
@yorkshire-chris.bsky.social
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Flew from coop after 15 years following arrival of a black cuckoo! Retired headteacher - the listener in the room, here to learn and smile: family; countryside; environment; humanity; justice; health; art; rural life ...
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 5h
The ever faithful bluetit family bringing snatches of blue and yellow to an otherwise grey start to the day.
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 1d
Three collared doves making their early morning call, landing in harmony below the feeders.
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 2d
A gathering of woodpigeons on the hexagon arches atop of the mound overlooking the vale, on a still, clear morning.
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 3d
Goldfinches dropping in to visit the feeders during a calm spell earlier, glinting in the sunlight. Blustery winds prevail though, the privet and hawthorn hedges with dancing arms like a troupe of ballerinas.
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 4d
Wood Pigeons and Carrion Crows, buffeted by the wind, flying in on a sideways flightpath.
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Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social · 5d
Friday #morningread
Take care and keep warm!
From A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, ed, Jane McMorland Hunter
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Helen Bennett 🌿 @helenbennett.bsky.social · 5d
One for today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #AllWeathers
Sharing the moment when I spotted this gorgeous Long-Tailed Silky Flycatcher eating berries in the pouring rain. We'd stopped for coffee on our journey back to the airport in Costa Rica so to see it then was so special! 💛 📷 🪶

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A photograph of a Long-Tailed Silky Flycatcher, a predominantly grey-blue coloured bird, with a yellow head and brighter yellow ring around its eye. The bird is in side profile looking to the left as viewed... it is on a shrub where it had been eating the blue green berries. A thrush size bird, that is related to waxwings. Photographed in Costa Rica Dec 2023
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 5d
🤣 Love it!
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 5d
A sole great tit feasting on the peanuts under a grey swathed sky.
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 5d
We have all enjoyed a lovely summer but with tragic consequences as
"we are shockingly underprepared for such extremes here in the UK."
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 5d
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust warns government is shockingly underprepared to deal with accelerating threat
Report shows UK nature bears the brunt of chaotic climate
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust warns government is shockingly underprepared to deal with accelerating threat
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annellis6.bsky.social @annellis6.bsky.social · 6d
We should all take a leaf out of Jane Goodhall's book. RIP compassionate person.
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 6d
A flash of the curtains disrupted the breakfast party and the first recognisable bird, by its rising fantail, was a collared dove.
Lovely dedication, Hannah. We must all ensure her messages echo on through the ages. 💚🕊
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 8d
On a very Autumnal morning, wood pigeons all around taking shortflights to stretch their wings and change their views over the Vale.
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 11d
A lone collared dove making a brief check in before the tits came out to play on a grey day.
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David Karlsen @vonkarlsen.bsky.social · 11d
For one moment
I'd like to speak to you
from my heart
tell you how much all
you do is appreciated
following me, the reposts
likes and conversations
all my old friends
from a nameless place
who reconnected
those that
came to me on here
this place this blue sky haven
I send you my love
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 12d
Goldfinches on the replenished feeders bringing delight to this morn and heartening the soul.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 13d
England's King Harold defeated and killed brother Tostig & Harald Hardrada, King of Norway, at Stamford Bridge near York on this day 1066. Days later Harold was defeated by William of Normandy at Hastings, shifting England’s political focus from Scandinavia to western Europe.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 13d
The Anglo-Scottish border, first agreed at the Treaty of York on this day 1237, has proved one of Europe’s most enduring national land boundaries. The only modifications have been to the 'Debatable Lands’ north of Carlisle and to Berwick-upon-Tweed, retaken by England in 1482.
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 13d
A pair of woodpigeons homing in to land near the bird bath on a very bright morning with a heavy dew.
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 14d
At the front bluetits happily enjoying their habitation under a pink tinged sky. Whilst at the back a kite determinedly hunts in the corner of the cornfield, scattering all the wood pigeons far and wide and annoying four carrion crows, determined to see it off their territory.
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 15d
The bluetits and great tits gracing the front garden as they flit from hedges to feeders enjoying their early morning foray before the rest of the garden gang arrive.
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 16d
Under a clear blue sky, the red breast of a robin shone out as it perched on a patio chair heralding a lovely Autumn day.
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 17d
On a sunny morn, five collared doves on domestic duties, clearing up fallen feed from among the freshly green blades of the lawn following the recent rain. Other birds were flitting about in the sunlight, but the doves took my eye.
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 18d
A drizzly morning but still the garden faithfuls are out - bluetits, great tits, a blackbird, a pair of collared doves ... and a fly past by a great spotted woodpecker.
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Chris Duffield @yorkshire-chris.bsky.social · 19d
A constant presence here, a collared dove, an outcast of the two pairs that visit on occasions.
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