John Preston
@johnpleeds.bsky.social
Dabbler in environment, moths, stained glass, private pilot, when not with the Development team at The Conservation Volunteers. Own views.
Do you like it deep fried or with your jacket tattie. Rather fond of it ourselves .
December 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Do you like it deep fried or with your jacket tattie. Rather fond of it ourselves .
Another quiet if brighter morning. A silent blackbird silhouetted against the sky at the top of the ivy. #FirstBirdofMyDay
December 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Another quiet if brighter morning. A silent blackbird silhouetted against the sky at the top of the ivy. #FirstBirdofMyDay
Wot no faces. I have this image of you smiling, smirking and perhaps gnurning into a mirror pen in hand !
December 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Wot no faces. I have this image of you smiling, smirking and perhaps gnurning into a mirror pen in hand !
It looks like you've bene along between Skelton and Hollybush today ! Strange how I thought that is our bit from the Heron repost!
December 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It looks like you've bene along between Skelton and Hollybush today ! Strange how I thought that is our bit from the Heron repost!
If we still have a dunnock, it keeps quiet and skulls in the hedge. It is too cold to sit by the window and keep watch. Blackbird flew and alarm called, then clucked crossly predawn once again, then for the first time, broke into song. Does it sense the turn of the year. #FirstBirdofMyDay
December 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
If we still have a dunnock, it keeps quiet and skulls in the hedge. It is too cold to sit by the window and keep watch. Blackbird flew and alarm called, then clucked crossly predawn once again, then for the first time, broke into song. Does it sense the turn of the year. #FirstBirdofMyDay
A funny thing seen in the way to the office ? I don't remember the bill being so massive, but only seen in tree tops long ago. Oslo ski jump and deep in Polish woods. An oversize starlingbdaub with a kindergarten paint brush.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:28 AM
A funny thing seen in the way to the office ? I don't remember the bill being so massive, but only seen in tree tops long ago. Oslo ski jump and deep in Polish woods. An oversize starlingbdaub with a kindergarten paint brush.
Ah, the air dried codfish like in Newfoundland ?
Well done for keeping going. I hope you are having fun.
Well done for keeping going. I hope you are having fun.
December 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Ah, the air dried codfish like in Newfoundland ?
Well done for keeping going. I hope you are having fun.
Well done for keeping going. I hope you are having fun.
Many shades of grey.
Grey with a shadow of blue sky
Over silver black wet roofs
Deep bottle grey privet and ivy hedge
I just glimpse a slight movement of a graphite grey blackbird.
Has someone got the sun.
#FirstBirdofMyDay
Grey with a shadow of blue sky
Over silver black wet roofs
Deep bottle grey privet and ivy hedge
I just glimpse a slight movement of a graphite grey blackbird.
Has someone got the sun.
#FirstBirdofMyDay
December 9, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Many shades of grey.
Grey with a shadow of blue sky
Over silver black wet roofs
Deep bottle grey privet and ivy hedge
I just glimpse a slight movement of a graphite grey blackbird.
Has someone got the sun.
#FirstBirdofMyDay
Grey with a shadow of blue sky
Over silver black wet roofs
Deep bottle grey privet and ivy hedge
I just glimpse a slight movement of a graphite grey blackbird.
Has someone got the sun.
#FirstBirdofMyDay
Got to love a lapwing. Do they really have humped backs? I will have to look more closely irl. Painted by"Jan" one of my grandpa's maths pupils in 1972.
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Got to love a lapwing. Do they really have humped backs? I will have to look more closely irl. Painted by"Jan" one of my grandpa's maths pupils in 1972.
Indeed wonderful. Not seen the garden robin for a while. The front blackbird was alarm calling well before 6 and went on for a while before ending with a burst of cluckles #FirstBirdofMyDay
December 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Indeed wonderful. Not seen the garden robin for a while. The front blackbird was alarm calling well before 6 and went on for a while before ending with a burst of cluckles #FirstBirdofMyDay
Only one cup? Or did the crow get a sip?
Nice work.
Nice work.
December 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Only one cup? Or did the crow get a sip?
Nice work.
Nice work.
Once again.the blackbird, another startle alert before dawn. #FirstBirdofMyDay
December 7, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Once again.the blackbird, another startle alert before dawn. #FirstBirdofMyDay
That is a lovely snow scene.
December 6, 2025 at 10:17 PM
That is a lovely snow scene.
You can kind of see why the lay observer might say what I'd that pink and bright blue parrot in my garden.
December 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
You can kind of see why the lay observer might say what I'd that pink and bright blue parrot in my garden.
It has been a busy day. Two magpies flew close, almost eye level from the open bedroom window, a robin singing in the distance, almost lost in the damp roar from the M1 across the valley. #FirstBirdofMyDay
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It has been a busy day. Two magpies flew close, almost eye level from the open bedroom window, a robin singing in the distance, almost lost in the damp roar from the M1 across the valley. #FirstBirdofMyDay
A treecreeper calling in the park and climbing up a tree before flying earthwards to do it all again on the next tree.
December 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A treecreeper calling in the park and climbing up a tree before flying earthwards to do it all again on the next tree.
Two turtle doves. I know. Looking forward to lords a leaping !
I said ptarmigan as the partridge is white and the profile made me think of one.
I said ptarmigan as the partridge is white and the profile made me think of one.
December 6, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Two turtle doves. I know. Looking forward to lords a leaping !
I said ptarmigan as the partridge is white and the profile made me think of one.
I said ptarmigan as the partridge is white and the profile made me think of one.
Not sure about the actual door btw. Coop HQ by Manchester Victoria
December 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Not sure about the actual door btw. Coop HQ by Manchester Victoria
I was thinking that the butcher got them?
December 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I was thinking that the butcher got them?
Where have all those plump chickens gone.
December 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Where have all those plump chickens gone.