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Nature, the Great Outdoors, photography. Love my family, live music and interesting beers.
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Today is Observer Food Monthly Sunday. It's a great edition, so please do pick up a print copy. Here's my column, which went online on Thursday as a curtain raiser: as it says, all the grandiose things I have said across 180 columns, in summary.

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Displaying male Teal. 😍 Taken at the weekend at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊🦆 #Birds 🪶 linktr.ee/carlbovis

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This is amazing. Via @nytimes.com

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Are you a refugee fleeing from the US? Well, there’s some things you need to know about life in the UK: 1. We drive on the other side of the road. 2. Football is a completely different sport here. 3. IT'S PRIVATE EYE WEEK! New edition in shops and with subscribers from Wednesday.

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Merry Christmas to all my wonderful followers! ❤️🥰🌲🎅🐦

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Live And Let Die Boom! Manchester 15/12/24

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METOP-B, 1124 UTC Overpass:

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METOP-C, 0945 UTC Overpass: Storm Darragh, inbound.

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Please listen, @wesstreeting.bsky.social Our hospices have wonderful teams of doctors, nurses and allied health professionals who are doing their best to provide good quality care, but they desperately need more funding. Palliative care should not be an optional extra. #hospice #palliativecare

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METOP-C, 1034 UTC Overpass:

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And here's Carol Vorderman's list of "good people to follow" 🙌 (Those already on Bluesky at least!) @carolvorderman.bsky.social

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... Farbe fürs Herz ♡

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METOP-C, 0956 UTC Overpass: Snowfall confirmed over Sussex region at present.

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NOAA-18, 1113 UTC Overpass:

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Blue Tit on a reed. 😍 Taken at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊🐦 #Birds 🪶

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My Christmas blog is a 'catalogue' of sorts with details of all my bird products & links & details of how to order!😊 Perfect Christmas presents for nature lovers!😀🎁 ko-fi.com/post/Lots-of... Please have a browse♥️ (Always believed only my Twitter followers would buy my products before) Thank you!

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We're just 700 short of the magic 20,000 and at the rate we are growing on BlueSky that could be tomorrow. Please spread the word about our unique brand of citizen journalism here on BlueSky.

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Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.

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Good morning. Word of the Day is as beautiful as it is underused. ‘Confelicity’ is finding joy in the happiness and success of others.

submitted 112 days ago • 693 comments

hello and welcome to the 1M people that have joined Bluesky in the last week!!!

submitted 113 days ago • 4125 comments

To all the newly-arrived Twitter refugees, I've created a starter pack of UK political journalists, experts, commentators and politicos to follow here go.bsky.app/2CwmVfN

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🚨HERE WE GO! Gary Lineker to be unveiled as new Archbishop of Canterbury in January transfer window. Rumours of Justin Welby going the other way to present the BBC's News at Ten as yet unconfirmed.

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I usually only share my blog posts to Twitter, but as a lot of you have followed me from there, thought I'd share here too! 😀 It's a good place to see all my latest pics together! 🐦 Please take a look and let me know what you think! 🙏❤️ ko-fi.com/post/A-rare-...

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Some more from RSPB Titchwell last week.

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27th October 2024 07.02 Craster

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Flut und die Austernfischer rufen. ☀️🌊

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24th October 2024 07.59 Craster

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23rd October 2024 07.54 Craster

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4 from a visit to RSPB Titchwell yesterday.

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Lindisfarne Castle ... #Sunset #WeekOforOrange #AlphabetChallenge #WorldMentalHealthDay

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Here’s some photos of a bittern I took at RSPB Dungeness. Bitterns are often seen standing stock still with just the tip of their beaks under the water. See last photo. I wonder if they can sense the movement of fish?

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I'll take my shots from wherever I can get them but a bird in the bush is often worth two on a wire, dont you think? #birds

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