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Janet Drew
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Lifelong astronomer and scientist, with an interest in birds, landscape, geology, and (almost) all things natural. For fun, consumes crime fiction, and tries to play the cello.
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The Brexit anniversary is a day for sadness. After the results of the Brexit ref came through all those years ago, this young woman was asked to put her thoughts about it on camera. Her eloquent words spoke for so many of us back then – and her worst fears have tragically come true.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
January 31, 2026 at 6:15 PM
For today's #brownisbeautiful #birdoftheday, a chimango caracara seen in the Bariloche area of Argentina. Pretty chest feathers. This predator was soon bullied off its perch by the bigger predator, a crested caracara. #birds #nature #photography
January 27, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.”

As a piece of prose and geopolitical analysis Carney’s Davos speech feels history-making. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Aurora as it just happened: looking north, from the hills above Wicklow Town.
January 20, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Taken as we set out on this afternoon's walk, next to Kilcoole's marshes. Great sky! #EastCoastKin
January 18, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Some #astronomy - a weird discovery, even.☺️
A mysterious bar-shaped cloud of iron has been discovered inside the Ring Nebula by a European team led by Dr Roger Wesson and Prof Janet Drew @uclmaps.bsky.social @cardiffuni.bsky.social, using data from a new instrument on the William Herschel Telescope www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2026/ja...
January 16, 2026 at 12:20 PM
For #BirdoftheDay #anatidae These greylags were on Hickling Broad in Norfolk.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
Cats... being cats. (Instinct > reason!)
January 12, 2026 at 10:40 PM
For #birdoftheday, I have #most pictures of so-called black guillemots - a lovely chocolate-y brown, close up (the consequence of living next to a marina in Wicklow, they visited often). In photo 2, the non-breeding plumage is starting to show around the top of the beak. #birds #EastCoastKin
January 5, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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Today our message to Starmer is loud and clear: scrap the £3bn Trump tax on our NHS and put that money into social care now.

@libdemdaisy.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 5:47 PM
My #mostrecent bird snap for #birdoftheday, taken yesterday - during a pre-Christmas-dnner stroll to the nearby, essentially urban, nature reserve. First saw one in 1995 (Chiswick, London). Now they're all over SE England.
December 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A #Grounded robin for #BirdoftheDay - suitable also as a subject for the #holidayseason. The robin was clearly human-comfortable, being a small number of feet away on a gravel path, and happy to wait a while as I took the photo.
December 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
10 #birdsonfeeders for #BirdOfTheDay. At this location - a cottage near Coniston in the Lake District - there was never any shortage of birds on the feeders, which would empty in a day. The blue tits visible have grey caps, marking them out as juveniles (photo taken June '22). #birds
December 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
...such a nihilistic, mean-spirited thing to try to do. Despicable. Imbecilic. Have to hope congress pushes back.
Unbelievable. This would be a terrible blow to American science, writ large. It would decimate not only climate research, but also the kind of weather, wildfire, and disaster research that has underpinned half a century of progress in prediction, early warning, and increased resilience.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
December 17, 2025 at 6:28 PM
For #Birdoftheday #groups - a troup of Chilean flamingos, seen near El Calafate, Argentina. The way they are arranged almost looks like a class for debutantes in how to carry yourself. Lovely and comical at the same time. #birds
December 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
#BirdOfTheDay #NestingBirds - how about a repost of a kittiwake building a cliff-top nest in warm sunshine. ...still is my favourite gull.
My favourite gull - a kittewake nesting on Bempton Cliff in Yorkshire.
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A bit of a weird bird photo: disorienting perfect reflections in the completely still Vendicari lagoon in Sicily. #birds (Taken about a decade ago, now.)
December 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
#Mr&Mrs white-lined tanager. He's black and she's a light orange brown. For #birdoftheday. Why white-lined? ...apparently there's some white under the male's wing and a patch of white on the upperwing. Don't think I saw it. #birds
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A #gardening oddity: a photo from yesterday showing winter jasmine in full bloom (normal for Dec/Jan ...so not far off), and a flowering rose, of all things (normal for June to early Sept). One of those little signs life is turning strange. #climatechange
November 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A #bright photo for #BluSkyArtShow. The dazzling colour of an acer in autumn, in the back garden. The colour is as close to true as I could make it (the camera tried to push it ~pink). The leaves were SO vivid. #Nature
November 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A #swan for #BirdofTheDay. A mute swan, making itself look bigger and more statuesque, by rearing up out of the water - for no apparent reason at the time. #birds
November 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
#DucksOutOfWater for #BirdOfTheDay. Female eiders sunning on a slipway, looking very chilled out - a WI (Women's Institute, for those unfamiliar with the term) of ducks.
November 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
This was a once only opportunity for me - I've one other photo of the male upland goose alone, but not next to the brown female as here. For #BirdOfTheDay #Least photographed. Seen on eastern side of Andes, Argentina. Such dimorphism ...in a goose! #birds
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
For #BirdOfTheDay, a southern crested caracara with wings up, about to #takeoff. (This is the second of the caracara pair I posted a week or so back - the first has already gone in this photo.) The amount of muscle packed into the base of the wing is obvious. #birds
November 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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Let’s hear it for librarians and libraries!
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM