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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The back garden frogs are still at it

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Mollusc graffiti, Coventry.

Photo of the bottom of a white garage door where algal growth has created a gradient of greenish colour that gets darker towards the ground. Slug or snail feeding has etched snaking patterns into the algal layer over time making another pleasing gradient as regrowth gradually fades the older patterns into the background and the whiter fresh ones stand out. If you zoom in you can see the individual marks of each scrape of the mollusc's tongue (radula).

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

First frogspawn of 2025 in the garden pond

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Cliffe Castle museum, Keighley. Lots of Victorian taxidermy in the natural history section. Sadly the upstairs is closed off for repairs at the moment so you can't see the two-faced lamb.

Museum cabinet showing taxidermy specimens of grouse. On the left, Black Grouse. On the right, Capercaillie. In the middle a hybrid of the two.

Museum exhibit - a box of wasp parts labeled "WASPS, THE VISCERA OF WHICH HAVE BEEN EATEN BY MICE" and "These wasps were nibbled by mice. They were donated to the museum in very early 20th century."

Entomological museum display cabinet containing a beautiful large wax model of a housefly and a biography of its maker, curator Maurice Longbottom (1897-1946)

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Today's lunchtime Goosanders

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Spotted some Bulgarian storks in #GeoGuessr

Screenshot of the game GeoGuessr showing a StreetView image of at least 4 White Storks in a field. The closest one appears to be duplicated as an artifact of the image-stitching process.

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

We collected 15 ring numbers today. Most of the birds had originally been ringed at this site and have been turning up at the same place again and again. Today we had one ringed in Halifax though and this one I've recorded previously who's been to Belarus and back.

Cropped photo of a Black-Headed Gull showing the blue ring on its leg with the code '246J' in white. It also has a metal ring on the other leg.

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Otley today. A goose that thinks it's a swan and a pigeon impersonating a Black-Headed Gull.

A pair of Mute Swans accompanied by a domestic white goose, swimming near the concrete-stepped river bank with a few Mallard ducks. These 3 are usually seen together.

What looks like a line of Black-Headed Gulls perched on a metal fence next to the river Wharfe. The second bird from the left is actually a pigeon though, white with dark smudges on the head, blending in with the gulls in their non-breeding plumage.

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Last night's Jesus Lizard show was ace 😀

David Yow crowdsurfing, mic in hand, audience arms holding him up

David Yow crowdsurfing with a pointy boot in the air. View of the top of his head.

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Gotta love a Shoveler with that comedy oversized bill. (Also its scientific name makes it a type of Spatula)

Shoveler duck in shallow water looking at the camera.

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Some of the snowmen at Kirkstall Abbey today. #Leeds #Yorkshire #snowman #winter #snow

Snowman in front of the ruins of Kirkstall Abbey. Large blank staring eyes made of whole leaves, and twigs for arms

Snowman with eyes and slightly smiling mouth roughly drawn on with mud. Head with a halo of 5 prongs moulded from snow. Arms two thick straight sticks sticking out horizontally. Snow-covered park crossed by a walled-off road in the background.

Snowman in front of the Kirkstall Abbey ruins. This one is decorated with all its facial features made of small leaves and twigs, and three leaves as 'buttons' down the chest. Eyebrows tilted and stick arms raised so it looks like it's coming in for a hug. Small twigs form antennae and two clusters of sycamore leaves like gills are sticking out of the neck.

Snowman in a snow covered park, with the river Aire in the background lined by mature trees. Image cropped to only show the snowman's upper half. This snowman has an eyebrowless smiley face, short stick arms with one forked, an oak leaf tie and skinny branched antlers made from twigs.

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

It seemed to work OK when I added an extra Regex block for the second word - this will also pick up posts with the words in reverse order

$Screenshot of SkyFeed showing two Regex blocks for two words being matched, with a \b at the start and end of each word in the Regex text box to exclude where the word crops up as part of another word.$

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Random item from the parental home. A fragment of the old TV mast from Emley Moor near Huddersfield which collapsed in March 1969, inherited from my radio engineer granddad. #Yorkshire #EmleyMoor #transmitter

Fragment of bone-like cream-coloured hard plastic with a handwritten label on it. Text saying "Taken from the T.V. mast at Emily Moor brought down by ice Jan 1972"

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Heard my partner yell "UGH!" and ran into the room to see this horror #totp

Ventriloquist Keith Harris and Orville the Duck on Top of the Pops

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I imagine this Eric Pollard thimble spotted in Esholt today might make a perfect Xmas gift for someone #Emmerdale #Yorkshire #Thimble

Photo taken through a shop window showing a thimble decorated with a faded photo of the character Eric Pollard from the long-running TV soap opera Emmerdale. Another thimble next to it commemorates Aidensfield, the fictional village where the TV series Heartbeat is set. A couple of Pot Noodles are visible in the background, out of focus.

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Slowing down bird noises is something I recommend

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Spent lunchtime watching a cormorant zooming about underwater in the canal and trying to predict where it was going to pop up next. Saw it swim under a swan who gave it a disgruntled peck.

A cormorant swimming in a canal, just it's head poking out of the water

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Spotted this Carrion Crow with crossed-bill syndrome today

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Carol D @cccddd.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

Walking along the canal & saw 4 young swans burst out from their family group on the far bank then arrange themselves in a square formation and swim jauntily in a circle for a bit while their parents looked on. Wonder if that's how they normally celebrate the arrival of a person with food.