Category Archives: Flora/Fauna

Oct 20 2024
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Poppies (Welsh)

Saturday 19th October 2024, 4.05pm (day 4,804)

Poppies, 19/10/24

A very pleasant day today, and these caught the light perfectly. And I got them in focus, too: there’s quite a long zoom being deployed here.

This is one of those occasions where a whole new location (the 479th, in fact) gets on the blog with a shot that could be taken anywhere. These poppies are currently flowering behind one of the stands of Brickfield Rangers FC, who play on the outskirts of Wrexham in north-east Wales, a town that had previously not offered up a picture in thirteen-plus years, and may not do so again.

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Oct 18 2024
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Textures

Thursday 17th October 2024, 2.30pm (day 4,802)

A hidden corner of campus. This shot has no deeper meaning, I just like the textures, of trunk, undergrowth, the wall. Although maybe that stuff on the wall is mould, but then again, you should see our bathroom wall.

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Oct 14 2024
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Return of the herons

Sunday 13th October 2024, 3.45pm (day 4,798)

Heron returns, 13/10/24

There has been a long period where no herons were to be seen on the weir on the Hebden Water in town, but in the last couple of weeks there has been one there every day. Presumably, the same one: but I can’t confirm whether this is one of the two that were photographed regularly a few years back. It’s probably not. Anyway, it’s nice to see one of them again: they really are the most patient of creatures.

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Oct 10 2024
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Bob does his exercises

Wednesday 9th October 2024, 3.50pm (day 4,794)

Three pigeons, 9/10/24

In training for the ongoing Pigeon-Duck Conflict (depicted several times on here), Bob completes his latest bout of callisthenics with close supervision from the sergeant-majors. He’ll soon be ready for action down at the marina, where it’s rumoured there are also geese about, so he needs to work on those reaction times.

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Oct 09 2024
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Apples, with matching car

Tuesday 8th October 2024, 10.35am (day 4,793)

Apples and car, 8/10/24

I notice that almost exactly three years ago, on 7/10/21, I illustrated that there were still plums on our tree (albeit being eaten by insects). This year, those fruit were all gone by the end of August. But it’s time for the apple tree to pay off. It never matches the production rate of its neighbour, but it does just fine each year. On this shot I note also the matching car behind (yes, our kitchen is that close to the road).

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Sep 29 2024
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I’m in charge

Sunday 29th September 2024, 12.40pm (day 4,784)

This is definitely my street. You are just passing. I will allow you to take the photograph but after that I dismiss you totally.

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Sep 14 2024
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Apples and rose hips

Friday 13th September 2024, 3.30pm (day 4,768)

Apples and hips, 13/9/24

The plums are eaten and gone, but there is still some free food to be found in the garden. The apples are not very big and a little tart but they will do fine in a crumble. I suppose I could have moved the prominent leaf before capturing this one but hey, it’s all part of the natural vibe.

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Sep 12 2024
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What’s he got then?

Thursday 12th September 2024, 12.10pm (day 4,767)

Dog at fish van, 12/9/24

Oh, the dog knows. Probably it already knows more details about the guy’s fish than he does, in, like, two seconds.

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Sep 11 2024
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Pickled peppers

Wednesday 11th September 2024, 1.20pm (day 4,766)

Pickled peppers, 11/9/24

If my name were Peter Piper, could it be said that, on this blog, if I (Peter Piper) depicted a pack of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers were in the pack that Peter Piper depicted?

If English is not your first language and any of that makes any sense, then I congratulate you.

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Sep 07 2024
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Fly on post

Friday 6th September 2024, 3.15pm (day 4,761)

Fly on post, 6/9/24

Another day when there wasn’t really a great deal to look at, but it was a sunny afternoon with good light, so in the end, something came up. I like how the air behind it seems to shimmer with the promise of a golden summer, but of course all that is in the past — today could have been the last truly sunny and warm day until March, for all we know. And let’s consider ‘post’ as having a double meaning.

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