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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 13h

Snap. Early on v quiet, then a blue tit or two chattering in the trees /hedge when I went to the loo.
Lovely sunny morning. #FirstBirdofMyDay

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 13h

Ah. Yes, if I pull it in, I can see the crags. It is a lovely place.

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 1d

I can't place the view, are you over here just now?

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 1d

Yorkshire sun today. Scything the mini meadow in my mum's garden. I try to take a picture of the birch everything I visit

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 1d

Hehe. What does a wren swear. Very quiet in the mornings. Covids absent and the Robin not here first thing. Back from.the shops, first sparrows in ages, the Robin is not impressed. #FirstBirdofMyDay

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 2d

I agree with @fotofacade.bsky.social a lovely atmospheric painting.

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 2d

As I raised the blind on a grey damp morning, two blue tits flew up and a blackbird glared from the shed roof. #FirstBirdofMyDay

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 3d

Nice work Rebecca

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 6d

I choose it for our backyard as it is open to the alley, and is much less obvious to neighbours and passersby.
I have wondered about using one on the allotment but not sure if the Anglia Lepod. 12v inverter would run one, or just blow ? Is there a forum, as electrics not my forte

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 6d

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 6d

#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

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks Steve. I will look that up as NFG VC65. Black light in the only negated garden in a terrace street has consistently out performed the actinic and LED on the allotments c 100 not very actively tended.

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 6d

I was not sure what thus was last week. #TeamMoth

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 6d

Damp and grey. Some relief from a jolly of jackdaws, chattering, probably in some distant conifers. No habitat in this ten year old estate. #FirstBirdofMyDay

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 6d

The sooner we have some honest government, the better. Do Gove and Coffey really see the value of swift bricks or just political point scores ?

John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 7d

#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

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 7d

You have to love a bit of good graphic spoof.

Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 7d

Happy International Archaeology Day!

#InternationalArchaeologyDay
🏺 #Archaeology

A book cover design with the title “The Desire to Be an Archaeologist (and Other Diseases of the Brain)” by Antique Christie. The cover has a vintage style with a red and beige color scheme, the publisher name “Great Auk Books” at the top, and a small illustration of an auk bird near the bottom.

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you, Sarah, just working on another.

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 7d

Well yes. I did regret that part way in. I wished I had taken a picture of the cottage at the Botanics. And glad I didn't try to do the whole building!

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 7d

It certainly caught our attention. One day we will have to go back and try the restaurant and see if the interior is equally interesting. It is a shallow front to.a workshop and the Oratory chapel. Now a bar.

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 7d

Secon internal alarm (first 5am) and no need to be awake. Occasional short snatches of distant robin song. #FirstBirdofMyDay

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 8d

#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

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 8d

Great work and ten weeks to go.

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 8d

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

I am not sending team challenges

Glen G @gleng.bsky.social · 9d

Morning #bird

A Black Necked Stilt looking for breakfast at the Gilbert Riparian area in Gilbert AZ.

#birdphotography #photography #birding #birds #wildlifephotography #botd #birdoftheday #skinnylegs

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John Preston @johnpleeds.bsky.social · 8d

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

Chelton's Bird and Wildlife Photography @bird-photography.bsky.social · 9d

Standing in the shallow, cold waves of the Pacific Ocean, this Brown Pelican was unsure of me as I slowly approached

📷 Canon R5
Canon RF100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM
M, f/7.1, 1/3200, ISO 800, 500mm
5/24/25

Northern Oregon Coast

#birds #bird #photography #ornithology #birdphotos #nature

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A large bird stands in shallow water from the ocean as waves roll in below a pale blue sky behind it. Its long neck is brown and its head is white. Its pale yellow beak, accented by orange at the very end, is as long as its entire neck. Its body is made up of white-gray feathers.

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