glandwr.bsky.social
Birder, Botanist, field naturalist
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In general Teasels favour dry open poor soils although they will grow in damp areas.
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Not only Goldfinches but also Blue Tits will take Teasel seeds and of course Bumble Bees love the flowers.
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Musk did that salute, no ifs no buts he did it.
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I think you meant definitely not probably.
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What about emissions? Probably well over ULEZ.
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Tractors blocking roads, not news to us who live in the country, at least they're not coating the roads with manure and mud as well as they also do here.
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They don't stop at tractors, they use it in their cars as well.
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Yes I often wondered why he called it that, I assumed it was a reference to the toilet facilities offered to farm workers by rich landowners.
We people who have lived and worked in the countryside all our lives aren't taken in by the poverty moans. I've never met a well off farmer!
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I do a bit on Ynys Mon (Anglesey). Last weekend with a friend for a couple of hours. 1 Diver spp, few Common Scoter, many Auks mostly Guillemots, good numbers of BH Gulls, and regular Gannets, Kittiwake, Common and GBB Gulls and of course Herring Gulls. No Risso's just one Porpoise.
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He altered that to he wanted somewhere to shoot. Very expensive way to kill a few pheasants. Most people join a syndicate or buy or lease shooting rights
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He must be really thick, he altered his comment saying he bought his farm to avoid tax to he wanted somewhere to shoot. Very expensive way to shoot, he could have joined a syndicate, or even bought or leased shooting rights,
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It's a few months since I've seen or heard one. Used to get well into double figures on my feeders, now lucky to get one or two a year.
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More about my early life late 1940s No water supply, village standpipe for cooking and drinking, My sister and I would collect after school on a converted pram frame in two milk churns, we couldn't lug it up our path though. Washing water was from roof collected in water butts. The good old days!
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Add me. Not too active now as am 80 but still get about
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Hi Peter,
Jim Clark, Llyn Alaw. So another Gannett watcher, Richard Arnold and I plus others have been monitoring Ynyspadrig, a new colony, we think about 12 fledged, only one last year.
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In the 1950s the standard drink for a farm worker in the fields was cold tea in a quart beer bottle with a screw stopper, most didn't have a thermos. Do they have quart bottles these days?
Living in Kent, no water supply, electric and gas.
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I'm 80 when I visit a museum it's sobering to see exhibits that were new or in common use when I was young.
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Sea Watching at Point Lynus, Ynys Mon with a couple of friends, mainly for Risso's a few weeks ago, about 13 Common and a Velvet flew by.