Category Archives: Flora/Fauna

Aug 28 2015
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Chilli plant (emergency shot)

Thursday 27th August 2015, 5.45pm (day 1,463)

Chilli, 27/8/15

Committing — as I have for four years now, of course — to presenting a photo every day is fine when I’m out and about but not always easy to fulfill when I just hang around the house, and today was made even trickier by spending the second half of it in bed, feeling ill. (No, it’s not related to drinking too much on my birthday yesterday.) The evening sun caught our pet chilli well; and that was about the only photo opportunity I got today, I’m afraid.

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Aug 24 2015
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Slug in (someone else’s) garden

Monday 24th August 2015, 9.55am (day 1,460)

Slug and flowers, 24/8/15

I’m sure that somewhere in the textual ether there’s a better title for this shot but it wouldn’t come to me. I see the slug as a kind of advance scouting party, keeping itself inconspicuous while it checks out the rich pickings ahead. As it wasn’t my garden, I left it to it’s task…

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Aug 12 2015
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Bee buddleia bonanza

Wednesday 12th August 2015, 11.55am (day 1,448)

Bee and buddleia, 12/8/15

I have this image of the bee just diving in and troughing, like it’s the bee equivalent of some Roman orgy or similar. “Hah! Gimme nectar!”

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Aug 07 2015
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Breakfast tray

Wednesday 5th August 2015, 7.30am (day 1,441)

Bird and bread, 5/8/15

Last full day in Tanzania, with the very long (35 hour) journey home starting just after lunch. Breakfast was provided for more than just the human guests of the Springlands Hotel in Moshi.

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Aug 07 2015
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Bird in the Karanga Valley

Friday 31st July 2015, 1.00pm (day 1,436)

Bird in Karanga valley, 31/7/15

Did not see a huge amount of fauna on Kili, though with so many people around this is probably attributable to animals’ shyness rather than depopulation as such. There were flocks of big white-necked ravens, with impressive beaks, however, and also quite a few of these sparrow-like birds. This one was pictured in the Karanga valley, which we dropped into just before the end of walking on day 4, here at about 3,700m (12,140 feet).

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Aug 07 2015
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At the Machame Gate

Tuesday 28th July 2015, 11.00am (day 1,433)

Machame gate, 28/7/15

There are various routes one can take up Kilimanjaro. Ours was known as the Machame route, named for its starting point, one of the gates to the Kilimanjaro National Park. This point stood at 1,800m (just over 5,900 feet), so was already higher than I had ever actually walked before. As you can see, it was popular with these critters, blue monkeys, this one using this information board as a vantage point to scope out the potential for stealing the food of the other critters, the hundreds of walkers, porters and guides getting ready to start on the climb (one thing about Kili — you don’t do it for the solitude).

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Jul 17 2015
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Duck with quiff

Friday 17th July 2015, 5.55pm (day 1,422)

Muscovy duck, 17/5/15

Wouldn’t you like your hair to be that carefully coiffed on a daily basis — particularly if you lived rough in the centre of town. I am sure this is Hebden’s original Muscovy duck, as opposed to one of the additional group that arrived last year — compare it to this shot for example. Which puts it ahead of Tara the pub dog as the first animal to appear five times on the blog (and only four people, including myself, have appeared more often).

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Jul 10 2015
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Sheep group, near Coniston Water

Thursday 9th July 2012, 11.50am (day 1,414)

Sheep group, 9/7/15

If out in the hills and in doubt about the photo, try the sheep group. I always feel these guys know something. But that’s probably just paranoia. Probably.

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Jun 20 2015
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Diplomatic relations have been severed

Saturday 20th June 2015, 11.45am (day 1,395)

Pigeon/duck schism, 20/6/15

The pigeon/duck conflict is one of the great unseen wars. Where the river comes through the town, where waterfowl meets urban scavenger, the two species battle for the prime pickings from the humans. The pigeons sent an emissary to demand more territory, but the ducks, insistent that they were there first, just ain’t talking.

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Jun 17 2015
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Doorstep visitor

Wednesday 17th June 2015, 9.25am (day 1,392)

Snail, 17/6/15

A metaphor for my own day working at home? As it took this mollusc ninety minutes to cross the doorstep this morning, perhaps.

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