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Sep 21 2025
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Cougar Park gates

Saturday 20th September 2025, 4.00pm (day 5,140)

Cougar Park gates, 20/9/25

I pick this shot for the colour palette mainly — the blue of of his jacket works very well. It is taken from inside the ground, as the reversal of the lettering makes evident. As you can also see — it is raining, a lot. But the game behind me did manage to reach a conclusion. Nothing to do with Keighley Cougars, a rugby league club (you have never seen rugby league depicted on here, and unless I radically change in my remaining years, you never will) — the owners of that club decided they fancied a football team as well so simply bought one, Eccleshill United of Bradford, and teleported them here for as long as they feel like dabbling in another mode of football.

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Sep 17 2025
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Smug heron

Tuesday 16th September 2025, 3.40pm (day 5,136)

Smug heron, 16/9/25

Photographically, today was definitely a ‘give thanks to the heron’ day. Had I left the house 30 seconds earlier, you might well have seen the reason for its somewhat smug look, seeing as it has just guzzled a fish almost as long as its throat: I did get a shot of the kill but it was on such a long zoom (and in the same gloomy light as all other shots in the last few days) that the quality is very poor. Take my word for it, though: this is a heron that dined well this afternoon.

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Aug 30 2025
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Spider on the stairs

Friday 29th August 2025, 1.25pm (day 5,118)

Stairwell spider, 29/8/25

Our Victorian house has always provided various nooks and crannies in which spiders can happily make a living, but like various types of fruit, the species has had a particularly good 2025 — at least at our place. Some mass hatching, then subsequent occupation, occurred in the spring. Alternative versions of this shot are currently available: Spider Above Bath, Spider(s) In Kitchen, Spider Lurking Above Front Door…. take your pick.

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Aug 28 2025
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Departure

Wednesday 27th August 2025, 8.00pm (day 5,116)

Geese into sunset, 27/8/25

There was a big overflight of geese tonight. They came in waves, sub-flocks of 20-30 at a time (I count 22 in this particular group). Wherever the destination, they were leaving for somewhere else. There’s something a little melancholy about it all — the first intimations of autumn.

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Aug 15 2025
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Flowers into beans

Thursday 14th August 2025, 4.25pm (day 5,103)

Red bean flowers, 14/8/25

Another day with very little to see, but as the sun was shining the garden once again obliges. These little red flowers are due to become green beans, and I believe that’s a junior version already curving itself attractively down towards the bottom of the picture. Vegetables and fruits of all kinds have done very well this year, even for a black-fingered (opposite of green-fingered) doofus like me.

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Aug 11 2025
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Ripening

Monday 11th August 2025, 8.55am (day 5,100)

Plums and pears, 11/8/25

A rapid return to the theme of purpling plums, but as is often the case in August, we seem to have a lot of them. The pears come from elsewhere than our garden but further ripening is still required.

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Aug 11 2025
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Grasshopper, not on grass

Sunday 10th August 2025, 12.40pm (day 5,099)

Grasshopper on stone, 10/8/25

It’s a shame its head is slightly out of focus but otherwise I like this portrait of this little creature that decided to join me for a while, sitting on a wall. Not its natural habitat, but like me, perhaps it was just enjoying the sunshine.

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Jul 23 2025
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Get out of my way

Tuesday 22nd July 2025, 11.10am (day 5,080)

Ladybird, 22/7/25

This little creature definitely wanted to continue its forward trajectory, only at this point the lens of my camera was less than an inch from its nose (do insects have noses? Anyway you know what I mean). Doesn’t it look just that tiny bit annoyed about the situation? On the other hand, I am satisfied that the focus is correct.

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Jul 04 2025
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Early fruit

Thursday 3rd July 2025, 2.40pm (day 5,061)

Early blackberry, 3/7/25

Fairly warm and dry the weather has been — and this is a spot that catches the sun. All the same, surely that can’t be a fully ripe blackberry in the first week of July? But it is. Or was, as shortly after taking the shot I ate the fruit, and very nice it was.

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Jun 29 2025
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Fulfilling its bee-ing

Sunday 29th June 2025, 1.40pm (day 5,057)

Bumblebee, 28/6/25

Must have had at least a dozen attempts at capturing this example of insectile wiggliness. Don’t know why we call them ‘bumblebees’ though — they don’t seem to bumble to me, they are very systematic. Just this much time at each flower. Which is why, once I finally got the rhythm of it, I got the shot.

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