Nutcracker
@nucifraga.bsky.social
Birds, conifers and some green & pro-European politics.
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Their elephants were often quite, 'interesting' 😆
From "The Travels of Marco Polo", c. 1350 (via wikipedia)
From "The Travels of Marco Polo", c. 1350 (via wikipedia)
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Their elephants were often quite, 'interesting' 😆
From "The Travels of Marco Polo", c. 1350 (via wikipedia)
From "The Travels of Marco Polo", c. 1350 (via wikipedia)
Has there been any tagging of Scandinavian Whimbrel? What's the probability the majority of them avoid Britain as well, along the red line added here?
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Has there been any tagging of Scandinavian Whimbrel? What's the probability the majority of them avoid Britain as well, along the red line added here?
November 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
14 November, bike along to Elswick just in time to see @pauldavidson936.bsky.social's Great Northern Diver for 4 or 5 minutes before it flew off! #135 on the green patch yearlist 😃😃😃
@beardedgeordie.bsky.social @mike-carr.bsky.social
@beardedgeordie.bsky.social @mike-carr.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
14 November, bike along to Elswick just in time to see @pauldavidson936.bsky.social's Great Northern Diver for 4 or 5 minutes before it flew off! #135 on the green patch yearlist 😃😃😃
@beardedgeordie.bsky.social @mike-carr.bsky.social
@beardedgeordie.bsky.social @mike-carr.bsky.social
Wannabe Wollemia 😂
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Wannabe Wollemia 😂
This printscreen is what I'm seeing; they need to get the proper spelling set as their default, so this sort of obnoxious American imperialism doesn't happen!
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This printscreen is what I'm seeing; they need to get the proper spelling set as their default, so this sort of obnoxious American imperialism doesn't happen!
Can be useful for identification, too - Acer ginnala has glossy leaves (pic), closely-related Acer tataricum has matt leaves 👍
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Can be useful for identification, too - Acer ginnala has glossy leaves (pic), closely-related Acer tataricum has matt leaves 👍
Explaining the current is easy enough; shared temperate oceanic climates with low mean annual temperature ranges. Frequent in the Southern Hemisphere, but rare in the Northern. Britain and Ireland, along with the Faroe Islands, has most of them.
What'll happen in the future? Don't know!
What'll happen in the future? Don't know!
November 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Explaining the current is easy enough; shared temperate oceanic climates with low mean annual temperature ranges. Frequent in the Southern Hemisphere, but rare in the Northern. Britain and Ireland, along with the Faroe Islands, has most of them.
What'll happen in the future? Don't know!
What'll happen in the future? Don't know!
2 November, text from SPP and I've at last managed to catch up on the 2025 crossbill influx! Around a dozen Common Crossbills at Swalla this pm, #134 on the green patch yearlist 😃
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025 @mike-carr.bsky.social @whitleybirder.bsky.social @yellowbrow.bsky.social
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025 @mike-carr.bsky.social @whitleybirder.bsky.social @yellowbrow.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
2 November, text from SPP and I've at last managed to catch up on the 2025 crossbill influx! Around a dozen Common Crossbills at Swalla this pm, #134 on the green patch yearlist 😃
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025 @mike-carr.bsky.social @whitleybirder.bsky.social @yellowbrow.bsky.social
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025 @mike-carr.bsky.social @whitleybirder.bsky.social @yellowbrow.bsky.social
I get the page viewable for half a second or so, and then this flashscreen pops up. I wouldn't mind the ads alone, but I'm absolutely not willing to allow these 103 ghouls freedom to strip all my personal data and everything else out of my computer for their profit 🤬
October 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I get the page viewable for half a second or so, and then this flashscreen pops up. I wouldn't mind the ads alone, but I'm absolutely not willing to allow these 103 ghouls freedom to strip all my personal data and everything else out of my computer for their profit 🤬
With, sadly, a juvenile, presumably theirs, looking very unwell and taking no interest in its parents or life generally; no more than an odd bit of head-flopping preening. I fear it'll be dead of bird flu by the morning 😢
#NEBirding #LowCarbonBirding @btobirds.bsky.social
#NEBirding #LowCarbonBirding @btobirds.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
With, sadly, a juvenile, presumably theirs, looking very unwell and taking no interest in its parents or life generally; no more than an odd bit of head-flopping preening. I fear it'll be dead of bird flu by the morning 😢
#NEBirding #LowCarbonBirding @btobirds.bsky.social
#NEBirding #LowCarbonBirding @btobirds.bsky.social
29 October, a call from @pauldavidson936.bsky.social that there was a 1st-w Caspian Gull on the Tyne at Elswick; a quick bike dash before dusk, and #133 on the green patch yearlist 😃
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025 @saloplarus.bsky.social @mike-carr.bsky.social @onemantess.bsky.social
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025 @saloplarus.bsky.social @mike-carr.bsky.social @onemantess.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
29 October, a call from @pauldavidson936.bsky.social that there was a 1st-w Caspian Gull on the Tyne at Elswick; a quick bike dash before dusk, and #133 on the green patch yearlist 😃
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025 @saloplarus.bsky.social @mike-carr.bsky.social @onemantess.bsky.social
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025 @saloplarus.bsky.social @mike-carr.bsky.social @onemantess.bsky.social
Please deal with the worst bug of them all - make it so that when you click on the arrow to load new posts, your browser stays with the most recently read post, with the new ones ABOVE, and not go to the newest first!
October 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Please deal with the worst bug of them all - make it so that when you click on the arrow to load new posts, your browser stays with the most recently read post, with the new ones ABOVE, and not go to the newest first!
Haven't taken any #SuperSeabirdSunday pics this week, so it's an old pic today. A bit of a sad one, to remind and warn us all, that with the way #globalwarming is going, lots of other seabirds will soon only be seen like this, in museums 😢
October 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Haven't taken any #SuperSeabirdSunday pics this week, so it's an old pic today. A bit of a sad one, to remind and warn us all, that with the way #globalwarming is going, lots of other seabirds will soon only be seen like this, in museums 😢
Definitely yes! Far too dense commercial planting, that would not usually happen naturally. Though equally, I have seen self-sown Tsuga heterophylla and Abies procera do this:
October 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Definitely yes! Far too dense commercial planting, that would not usually happen naturally. Though equally, I have seen self-sown Tsuga heterophylla and Abies procera do this:
First I've seen mentioning it as Daurian! I'd always had it down as isabellinus. What grounds? If it is, it gets me an armchair tick 😁
October 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
First I've seen mentioning it as Daurian! I'd always had it down as isabellinus. What grounds? If it is, it gets me an armchair tick 😁
1st winter Waxwing, not adult, I think?
October 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
1st winter Waxwing, not adult, I think?
Thanks! You're welcome to use it, cc-by-sa; I've got more 👍
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Thanks! You're welcome to use it, cc-by-sa; I've got more 👍
We get Nuphar lutea here in Europe 👍
October 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
We get Nuphar lutea here in Europe 👍
20 October, a look round Swalla got a calling flyover Brambling #132 on the green patch yearlist. Then on to Killingworth Lake; last week's Whooper gone, but a very confiding Pink-footed Goose was nice ☺️
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025
@nenature.bsky.social @ntbirdclub.bsky.social
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025
@nenature.bsky.social @ntbirdclub.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
20 October, a look round Swalla got a calling flyover Brambling #132 on the green patch yearlist. Then on to Killingworth Lake; last week's Whooper gone, but a very confiding Pink-footed Goose was nice ☺️
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025
@nenature.bsky.social @ntbirdclub.bsky.social
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025
@nenature.bsky.social @ntbirdclub.bsky.social
Even more so if it gets out sunny!
Also look out for its frequent broken branches, it's dangerously brittle 😬
Also look out for its frequent broken branches, it's dangerously brittle 😬
October 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Even more so if it gets out sunny!
Also look out for its frequent broken branches, it's dangerously brittle 😬
Also look out for its frequent broken branches, it's dangerously brittle 😬
And all three are really, really, 𝑟𝒆𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, worried about Waxwings? 🤔
😂
😂
October 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
And all three are really, really, 𝑟𝒆𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, worried about Waxwings? 🤔
😂
😂
800 m would also explain this tiny dark dot for the summit of the Cheviot (812 m) poking through on the other pic you posted 😀
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
800 m would also explain this tiny dark dot for the summit of the Cheviot (812 m) poking through on the other pic you posted 😀