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Nov 14 2023
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Urban squirrel

Monday 13th November 2023, 11.20am (day 4,463)

Bike shed squirrel, 13/11/23

I guess if you are the kind of incredible natural acrobat that a squirrel is, it’s easy enough to adapt to features in the urban environment — like this fence next to one of the bike sheds on campus. It looks almost as if I have used a flash to catch this shot but it’s actually a brief flash of wan November sunlight. (In fact there are almost no shots taken with a flash on this blog, as I never use it: maybe, literally, two or three out of all 4,463.)

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Nov 13 2023
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

They’re outta here

Sunday 12th November 2023, 1.30pm (day 4,463)

Many geese, 12/11/23

This is certainly one of the bigger flocks of geese I have seen. I reckon there are upwards of 250 visible on this photo and I didn’t even get the head. How do they co-ordinate this? Who makes the decision to go at a particular time and place? What if one of them heads off and no one follows, does it get annoyed or feel like a bit of an idiot? So many things we do not know about the animal mind.

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Nov 12 2023
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Daily Post, Transport

Collingham station at dusk

Saturday 11th November 2023, 5.15pm (day 4,461)

Collingham station, 11/11/23

Collingham, in rural Nottinghamshire, becomes the 445th different named place to be featured on here: so I maintain the record of, more or less, one new place every ten days on average. This illustrates my urge to explore, if nothing else. Pictured, the start of my journey home: two and three-quarter hours later I was back in Hebden Bridge.

Should I have cropped the bits to the left? The fence annoys me a little: but on the other hand I couldn’t lose it without losing the hint of red light, which I like.

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Nov 10 2023
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Daily Post, Landscape

Morning on the tops

Friday 10th November 2023, 8.20am (day 4,460)

Long Causeway mist view, 10/11/23

Today didn’t quite work out as planned, but nor am I complaining. A glorious morning. The sheep seem quite contented about it, too.

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Nov 09 2023
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Daily Post, Interior

This winter’s fire

Thursday 9th November 2023, 5.20pm (day 4,459)

New fire, 9/11/23

The fire in the pub has been lit some two or three weeks earlier than last year. This is a good thing.

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Nov 09 2023
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Group portrait (mallards)

Wednesday 8th November 2023, 10.15am (day 4,458)

Duck portrait, 8/11/23

On another dull day, in all respects, the waterfowl of Hebden Bridge once again save things photographically. As I’ve said on here before, I do like mallards, they seem quite an agreeable species. The duck to the far right definitely looks smug about something.

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Nov 08 2023
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Daily Post, Landscape

Rainbow’s end

Tuesday 7th November 2023, 2.40pm (day 4,457)

Rainbow and geese, 7/11/23

Rainbows are, technically, optical illusions, but they are illusions that the camera also sees. This one was definitely touching earth somewhere around the Old Lees Road/Hurst Road area of Hebden Bridge this afternoon. The geese wouldn’t have seen it though; they were flying in the opposite direction.

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Nov 06 2023
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Infrastructural stuff

Monday 6th November 2023, 9.25am (day 4,456)

Infrastructure work, 6/11/23

Dig a hole in the road and you can leave it there as long as you like, as long as you put up a barrier around it and make it look important. This has been here on Princess Street for weeks. Not often under such portentous skies, though.

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Nov 05 2023
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Daily Post, Sport

Marley Stadium, Keighley

Saturday 4th November 2023, 3.25pm (day 4,454)

Marley Stadium landscape, 4/11/23

It’s Saturday, it’s in the region of 3pm, there’ll be a few football matches going on around the place I’m sure. The Marley Stadium in Keighley isn’t the most comfortable of venues but the backdrop’s pretty reasonable.

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Nov 04 2023
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Daily Post, Flora/Fauna

Worm race

Friday 3rd November 2023, 1.50pm (day 4,453)

Worm race, 3/11/23

On opening the lid of the allotment’s compost barrel this afternoon a whole nest of earthworms was revealed, some four feet up. These two decided they would take the opportunity to return to ground level. The one on the right had a clear head start but the other was catching up. If I was a gambling man…. but instead, I like their translucency. And at least the sun was shining for a little while today, the first sight of it for a few days.

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