Dave in Essex 🇺🇦 🇨🇦
@hennystdave.bsky.social
Organic gardener, bird watcher including surveying for BTO, butterfly surveying for Butterfly Conservation. Professionally in resilience where I still sit on British and International committees (Organisational, Energy and Infrastructure Resilience)
Stour at Henny Bridge has risen after recent rain and is also wider as a result. Detritus washed down has started to form a barrier to the flow where a fallen Willow lies in the stream. You can also see how the nearby bank is eroding as the flow is modified. The Little Egret had company today too.
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Stour at Henny Bridge has risen after recent rain and is also wider as a result. Detritus washed down has started to form a barrier to the flow where a fallen Willow lies in the stream. You can also see how the nearby bank is eroding as the flow is modified. The Little Egret had company today too.
Another rose still blooming despite frosts, torrential rain and a hailstorm. Precious Amber - a really striking colour which we first saw at RHS Hyde Hall. 🌱🇬🇧
November 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Another rose still blooming despite frosts, torrential rain and a hailstorm. Precious Amber - a really striking colour which we first saw at RHS Hyde Hall. 🌱🇬🇧
Last night was bonfire night for us, in a tradition stretching back 32 years started when our kids were small. Now the kids are grown and their kids are coming. We got very wet in the rain, dried by the fire, and wet again on return journey. A fine meal warmed us again. Pretty mad really 🤔
November 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Last night was bonfire night for us, in a tradition stretching back 32 years started when our kids were small. Now the kids are grown and their kids are coming. We got very wet in the rain, dried by the fire, and wet again on return journey. A fine meal warmed us again. Pretty mad really 🤔
Mine is younger and not as impressive as a tree, but the colour is fantastic right now
November 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Mine is younger and not as impressive as a tree, but the colour is fantastic right now
Little Egret at Henny Bridge but more interesting are the large flock of sheep that have been introduced to Shalford Meadow. They are grazing to improve the suitability for Lapwing which were once common. #essexbirding #suffolkbirds
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Little Egret at Henny Bridge but more interesting are the large flock of sheep that have been introduced to Shalford Meadow. They are grazing to improve the suitability for Lapwing which were once common. #essexbirding #suffolkbirds
Lackford Lakes this morning. Birds in hiding #suffolkbirds
November 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Lackford Lakes this morning. Birds in hiding #suffolkbirds
You look outside and think, too cold to go in the garden. But you do, and there’s a rose flowering away and it’s worthwhile. 🌱🇬🇧
November 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
You look outside and think, too cold to go in the garden. But you do, and there’s a rose flowering away and it’s worthwhile. 🌱🇬🇧
A filthy day and returning from my walk I saw the Swamp Cypress putting on a stunning display. Which still cheered me up even though I then discovered my waterproof coat, wasn’t 😳 🌱🇬🇧
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A filthy day and returning from my walk I saw the Swamp Cypress putting on a stunning display. Which still cheered me up even though I then discovered my waterproof coat, wasn’t 😳 🌱🇬🇧
Suffolk birds a bit different this week, we’ve had a lot of this going on (sound on) as joint British French exercises go on @markurban.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Suffolk birds a bit different this week, we’ve had a lot of this going on (sound on) as joint British French exercises go on @markurban.bsky.social
Stunning sky this evening 🌱🇬🇧
November 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Stunning sky this evening 🌱🇬🇧
🌱🇬🇧 meanwhile there is plenty going on in the garden. Clematis flowering and autumn leaves
November 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🌱🇬🇧 meanwhile there is plenty going on in the garden. Clematis flowering and autumn leaves
Eventful afternoon gardening. A lovely Sun dog, then a succession of low flying Apache, pair of very low helicopter I didn’t identify, Airbus A400 at about 200’ over the house and then a Westland Wildcat too. Gardening interrupted! 🇬🇧🌱
November 6, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Eventful afternoon gardening. A lovely Sun dog, then a succession of low flying Apache, pair of very low helicopter I didn’t identify, Airbus A400 at about 200’ over the house and then a Westland Wildcat too. Gardening interrupted! 🇬🇧🌱
London looking lovely this evening as we went to County Hall where the old council chamber serves as a convincing Court Room in a staging of Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie. Excellent show
November 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
London looking lovely this evening as we went to County Hall where the old council chamber serves as a convincing Court Room in a staging of Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie. Excellent show
Wanstead Park Sunday evening
November 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Wanstead Park Sunday evening
Halloween on Halloween 🌱🇬🇧
October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Halloween on Halloween 🌱🇬🇧
Autumn colours in the garden as October ends: Picrasma, Taxodium, Butterball Crab Apple and Edith 🌱🇬🇧
October 31, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Autumn colours in the garden as October ends: Picrasma, Taxodium, Butterball Crab Apple and Edith 🌱🇬🇧
Anyone who thinks cutting public spending is easy should read this article. Anyone who thinks increasing public investment will automatically increase growth should read this article. @warrenoates1.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Anyone who thinks cutting public spending is easy should read this article. Anyone who thinks increasing public investment will automatically increase growth should read this article. @warrenoates1.bsky.social
An odd day. Lovely morning walk, first Song Thrush since April, lots of LT Tits. Rain arrived, so dark my solar stopped generating anything at all. Stansted air traffic stopped and a series of Typhoons flew over coming from Turkey and Cyprus. Stansted flights resumed #suffolkbirds 🇬🇧🌱
October 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
An odd day. Lovely morning walk, first Song Thrush since April, lots of LT Tits. Rain arrived, so dark my solar stopped generating anything at all. Stansted air traffic stopped and a series of Typhoons flew over coming from Turkey and Cyprus. Stansted flights resumed #suffolkbirds 🇬🇧🌱
Forgot to attach the photo! #essexbirding
October 28, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Forgot to attach the photo! #essexbirding
Garden harvesting still with grapes and Szechuan peppers joining the list of “what do I use these for?” that is growing in the kitchen 🌱🇬🇧
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Garden harvesting still with grapes and Szechuan peppers joining the list of “what do I use these for?” that is growing in the kitchen 🌱🇬🇧
My first ever crop of Cranberries. Not many but quite exciting! Lovely sweet and sour taste 🌱🇬🇧
October 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
My first ever crop of Cranberries. Not many but quite exciting! Lovely sweet and sour taste 🌱🇬🇧
Autumn does throw up some extraordinary colours. Dahlia Edinburgh flowering from a cutting taken in spring, Clerodendron with its lovely weirdness 🇬🇧🌱
October 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Autumn does throw up some extraordinary colours. Dahlia Edinburgh flowering from a cutting taken in spring, Clerodendron with its lovely weirdness 🇬🇧🌱
Lovely light during morning walk, picking out autumn colours. Linnets, Starlings, some large distant thrushes (probably Fieldfares), pair of Red Kites, Common Gulls on Wormingford airfield and far more ground cover crops than ever 👏🏻 #essexbirding
October 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Lovely light during morning walk, picking out autumn colours. Linnets, Starlings, some large distant thrushes (probably Fieldfares), pair of Red Kites, Common Gulls on Wormingford airfield and far more ground cover crops than ever 👏🏻 #essexbirding
The Atlantic depression has moved through and given us blue skies. A Reed Bunting calling was the first since spring, Buzzards circled and called, Kestrel hovered and hunted. Lovely day! #essexbirding
October 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
The Atlantic depression has moved through and given us blue skies. A Reed Bunting calling was the first since spring, Buzzards circled and called, Kestrel hovered and hunted. Lovely day! #essexbirding
Autumn colours in the garden: oak trees, Amarines, Kniphofia and Maidenhair 🌱🇬🇧
October 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Autumn colours in the garden: oak trees, Amarines, Kniphofia and Maidenhair 🌱🇬🇧