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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Google Maps is often bizarre. Before I tapped the 35 min route it gave the 43 min route as best, given the 35 route is shorter in time/distance, has fewer hills & doesn't involve a long stretch of Sandy Beach! Clearly the better route. Who followed the "best route" last year? To the beach (at least)

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Flogged into the ground again, best a Curlew Sand & a flight only stint sp. Saw a small long -winged bird briefly twice, perhaps a WRS, but adult not the juv there. A Whooper Swan was the first I've seen in Ireland since the early 80's. Loads of waders to soft through, excellent views of most 16spp

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Flogged myself into the ground today for a pair of Egyptian Geese and a Clouded Yellows, both additions to species seen in Ireland, lots of waders but nothing scarce let alone rare. Lady's Island Lake and the Southern end of Tacumshin

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

In Ireland for my now annual trip to the SE Corner of Ireland. Probably a more inane import than coals to Newcastle, a cooked dinner to Ireland! Tacumshin and Lady's Island tomorrow. Hoping for a find or two???

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I was sea watching at the Bill in 03 when the finder of the bunting wandered over and asked "would anyone be interested in seeing a Yellow Breasted Bunting". Needless to say sea watch ended immediately.

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fine people for blocking pavements, my daughter lives in a road with houses either side, an affluent area, built when cars were fewer and smaller. It is impossible to walk down the pavement with a pushchair thanks to massive cars, compounded by "20mph is an affront to civil liberties" muppets

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Visit to Kenfig today, couldn't find anything in the bushes or on the pool but above, a few Red Kite, a possible Marsh Harrier, two Sprawks and a handful of Jays. Glorious wander, one way or another

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yrs ago, twitched a bird N of Swansea, coincidentally passing there as this came up. AM I saw a bright Bonelli's, late AM in shade an aberrant dingy Wood Warb, "not the bird I saw earlier" I said to the only other birder there. Turned out there was only 1 bird, not a Bonelli's, same phenomenon tho

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Trump's brain is the equivalent of chimps in a room with typewriters, most of what comes out is total gibberish but occasionally something valid comes out. By chance not superior intelligence

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A concept Suella appears to have never heard of..... Nationality by Birth, a simple idea & one "patriots" all over the world are insanely proud of if it applies to them. The most factual of all the factors that can define someone as a national of that country, historical precedent for it.

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That is good news, I went with a friend to Marshfield to see Yellowhammer and Corn Bunting. All the fairly local Yellowhammers that I knew of are gone.

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Are they doing well in the sense their numbers are increasing, are they just stable or are there still some but just declining slowly??

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Kerfuffle because a supermarket in Monmouthshire was selling England Football shirts during the Women's World Cup. Why are they selling these in Wales was the question?? Why would they not is a much more inclusive question??

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is almost one in 3 in Wales with the majority English born, it's like we don't exist. Even small things hide us. The WRU previously criticised for problems with inclusion used to run a campaign with the tagline 3 Million Voices raised as one. I don't think so. Another time there was a media

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nice visit to Slimbridge yesterday 5 Spot Reds, 4 Greenshank, Wood Sand, Numerous Ruff one a white-headed male, Cattle Egrets The most interesting a Corm repeatedly trying to swallow a big eel, at one stage it was trying head first, another corm tail first. The eel didn't get eaten, did it survive??

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Currently driving back from Tenby, Helen driving, up ahead a line of Muppets in lorries are driving nose-to-tail repeatedly braking as they have no other way to alter their speed, Helen has a gap, fuckwits keep overtaking and filling gap so they can play the nose-to-tail game. Why???

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

St Govan's Head, very gentle breeze - highlights GN Diver (W) RT Diver (E), 3 Dabblers (W) ? Pintail, 2 Teal (E) with one of the small flocks of Scoter (E & W). A scattered small pod of occasionally breaching Commons. Albas, Linnets, Mippits landing on the tip coming in-off. Two single Jays. Quality

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nice enough trip to Goldcliff lagoons this morning, duck numbers much increased since last week. Not a single wafer smaller than a Knot. 5 Ruff amongst Black Tailed Godwits the stand out birds. Regular Clouded Yellows the other points of interest.

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@mikepnature.bsky.social I joined the RSPB this morning. I wonder where I got the idea from??

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Who could have predicted PFI would turn out to be hyper-expensive and inept?? No doubt the private financiers made lots of money to invest elsewhere and make lots more money. It isn't just the road that goes on and on.

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here is something I don't give a shit about, Domestic Cat DNA in Scottish Wild Cats. A moronic waste of money that reinforces the importance of genetic purity and the indigenous population. I wonder what fundamentalist ideology underpins that set of beliefs??

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

have been a Wilson's, a Bonxies also chasing. From 9am Petrels started to drift past as the winds abated. I left at 11 just after one passed. More Arctic Skuas went by, 4 more Bonxies and a beautifully lit mid-brown Balearic. Regular pods of leaping Common Dolphins added to the spectacle

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Excellent watch at Strumble, just two of us for the first hour or so, birds were pouring SW so fast, in such numbers that it was bewildering and almost impossible to pick anything out of interest. An excellent Sooty, numbers of Arctic Skuas adding to the chaos, a single perplexing Petrel that might

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The end of the Deer Hunter, the poignant consequences of the cult of country and allegiance to a Flag. Very pertinent now.

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The original roads, definitely, many on the same routes as modern roads, now one of the main moans of the entitled is potholes, of course there are potholes, these roads weren't built for literally this weight of traffic both in terms of mass and volume. Bigger cars, much bigger VED

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Goldcliff over the high tide, a dearth of interesting waders, hardly any small waders, I'm assuming a complete lack of food, despite water and muddy edges. It was worth going for immaculate views of close Snipe in perfectly lit by full sun and regularly sighting of Clouded Yellows

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

One of the ways you get blamed for other people's behaviour is when you get a nervous overtaker behind you. If they won't go, I wave them through when I see a gap. If you don't some fucker behind executes punishment pass because the nervous driver has held them up.

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

weren't built for cyclists and therefore begrudge their presence. Roads were built for cyclists, they weren't built for fleets of vans and buses and lorries, hordes of oversized modern cars, massive tractors. Roads built for cyclists are not devoid of safe space for them

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We cycled across the top of Spain, down the West Coast of the Iberian peninsula, to Lagos on the Algarve, because cycling is so usual as a hobby,let alone as a commute, car drivers were always accepting of cyclists. One of the biggest problems cycling in the UK are Muppets who believe the roads

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You probably do there are a few along the stretch from Cardiff to Newport, that was my commute for years, I "chased" after him hoping he'd get stuck in traffic, luckily he didn't. It seems impossible now I commuted along that road, traffic is now insane, awareness of cyclist minimal

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My all time "favourite" a long slip entry onto the A48, white van, checking down the road & up the road, missed me in front, looked up, saw me, blasted his horn!! WTF was I to do!!! teleport away?? He managed to avoid wiping me out by a second or so. I went off, then back onto slip roads after that

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Where to look for the first two hours this morning, Sabs to the left of us, Sabs to the right of us, into the valley of Sabs flew the Leaches Petrels, Balearics, Arctic Skuas & Little Gulls. Then the winds dropped & it becalmed, a pulse of birds around 11 produced the same species in smaller numbers

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Wilson's Petrel off Strumble, 1 of my most wanted, no tick as not good enough views to personally discount Maderian, good enough to discount Storm & Leaches. Also a close Leaches, stonking Balearics, 2 Sooties (perhaps the same bird), a number of Sabs, Arctic Skuas, 2 Dunlin. Back tomorrow

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I was stood at a road crossing in Orlando and wondered what all the silver "scales???" were landing on our heads. Looked up and an Osprey was shredding a large fish. Not "scales??" "REAL SCALES!!!"

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Pheasant shooter into his sixties, he told me how he always shot the same estate, working inwards, the last pheasant was in the walled garden of the house itself, as it died, he thought "this is wrong" he gave up, once he saw the light.

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Evidence?? Some things are self-evident. When I was 17, I gave up coarse fishing, something I really enjoyed. It was obviously wrong to drag a fish out of the water whilst it was impaled on a hook, if lucky in its lip, if unlucky gut hooked. When I was older I worked with an 8th Dan judo master, a

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There were very, very few migrants on the island for the week I was there, hardly any passerines for a variety of reasons, the day we left this happens!!

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

assumed they turned up earlier in the year, checking the records they occur Aug-Oct, next morning one of the assistant wardens reported a "tacking bird" not quite Blackcap or Garden warbler "anyone else hear it" "Let me look up Eastern Olly" fits perfectly, a perhaps, but if so, it got away

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

had a pale/white throat, couldn't get any other colour anywhere, it wasn't whitethroat shape, the most obvious feature was a constantly pumped long square tail. Couldn't re-find it with help, took a while for the possibility of Eastern Olly to penetrate despite having seen loads in Turkey

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Bardsey, making use of the outdoor urinal I noticed a bird moving through the trees, 2/3rds of the way up, backlit bright sunset, one wrong-handed binocular use ensued, seen for a few seconds, mostly obscured, clearly a warbler, bigger, heavier than a phyllosc, I initially thought whitethroat as it

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What has GDP got to do with anything, an uncivilised measure of an abhorrent economic system. The Capitalists love capital and measure success by production and profit. The USA has the highest GDP because it has the most abhorrent economic system

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This evening flat calm conditions, Risso's all over the place. A minimum of 12 with 3 separate mothers with calves, one of the calves was tiny, it seems impossible to believe one could be smaller. The mother kept leaving it on the surface whilst it dived! Bizarre to see it bobbing about by itself

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The 2 best experiences of the trip so far, a setting sun over Ire with exceptional visibility across the water, I realised I could watch the sun through my scope, the whole edge turned green, a shimmering halo like effect that stayed green until it went out of sight! Never seen anything like it

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Sully or Johnno or Nosey or Grad or Loud @jajos.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Nice one, might have to take up cycling again and buy a camera, do my bit for road safety

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