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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 23m

An impromptu moment of endearing calm, always, is watching a blackbird bathe.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, never wanted autumn as much as I did this summer!

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today here in the UK: the first day in 117 days that temperatures across the entire country are staying below 20°C. Quite a statistic.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Indeed. I have family in Switzerland and the contrast with the UK is stark (in this and many other ways!).

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I’m sorry to hear that. Seeing litter really does negatively affect my mood. The verges of major roads are the worst. I often think that if I was PM, I’d fund & promote a massive nationwide community/public litter-picking campaign, to clear our spaces of decades of neglect in this regard.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the song thrush singing or not is a smile-breaker day-maker

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sick of the litter that blights every walk or car journey I take &, moreover, imperils worlds to which we are connected. Words fail me that some fail at showing this most basic level of respect for our environment.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Oh right, I shouldn’t have jumped to that conclusion anyhow! I like a lot the design & finish on that borrowed image though. I also like your Furch’s contrasting rich tones & grain there — very nice!

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Blimey, you already have! Brilliant. A custom-made guitar? (I have a PRS with the bird inlays.)

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@steveormerod.bsky.social I feel that someone should build a guitar with mother-of-pearl fretboard inlays based on this box tree!

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Getting quite attached to moths at the moment! Learning a lot about them. They’re fascinating. Many have wonderful names. Recently used a light trap for the first time, in the garden, & looked closely & in wonder at a lunar underwing, merveille du jour & black rustic. The start of years of pleasure!

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I hadn’t posted (or engaged) for nearly two years, just checked back now and again for certain people I followed who weren’t (or only infrequently posted) here. But enough was enough — just no longer a pleasant place to be.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

After an enjoyable few years on what was Twitter, making connections with fellow nature lovers & sharing advice & learning along the way, X became a big dislike for me. So it’s bittersweet to have finally deleted my Twitter/X account today. This small digital cleanse was definitely needed, though.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The park this morning, with mist-softened edges.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

with the swallows gone the park feels more lonely than it does cold

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On this dreary morning, there’s a wren singing with new-spring intensity. I’ll take that.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

a desolate fen the linnets’ drift-chatter makes it less so

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

a jay's acorn screech journey-bound swallows chatter change breathing new life

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Tsik tsik tsik”, as two song thrushes arrow overhead, above a loose band of mist that creeps across & envelops the meadow.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I can well imagine that, getting lost in the exquisiteness of it all!

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yes it’s a fabulous, eye-catching name!

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For context, this is fenland ditch habitat.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An intricate, spherical nest made of grass, belonging to a harvest mouse micromys minutus. Tennis ball-sized, this particular nest is situated c.50cm above ground, anchored to & densely woven from reed sweet-grass glyceria maxima.

A spherical, tennis ball-sized harvest mouse nest, about 50cm above ground, anchored to & woven from reed sweet-grass.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

seedhead bronze seen in the marsh harrier ghosting now gone

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fantastic illustration — that’s a good enough blend achieved to wow me!

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Many happy returns, Jennifer! Thank you for all you do for nature and the environment. (A lovely dog, a lovely river, by the way.)

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Recently visited the Museum of Chelmsford. Delighted to stumble on a display marking the centenary of J.A. Baker’s birth, feat. a draft of “The Peregrine” &, fr. his birdwatching diary (1954-56) the 21-03-55 entry concerning Oaklands Park (in which the museum now sits). @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

A current Museum of Chelmsford display marking the centenary of the birth of celebrated (local) nature writer John Alec Baker.

Pages from J.A. Baker’s Birdwatching Diary (1954-56).

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A poem I wrote has found its way into this established & engaging magazine. Very pleased! With grateful thanks to the editors.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Grateful just for the way the sunlight catches things sometimes.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A blackcap & chiffchaff singing simultaneously. An autumn preamble with spring written all over it.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

From berry-laden cover, a blackcap & chiffchaff sing simultaneously. An autumn preamble with spring written all over it.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

A nice collection. A lovely light.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Early September: redwings & fieldfares reach the shore of my mind.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Chicken-of-the-woods, it looks like to me. But I am by no means a mushroom expert!

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just now: a buzzard above me, wheeling on sun-kissed wings beneath a cloudlet sky. A perspective giver, spirit lifter.

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The soft colours, & layers & textures of this morning’s sky north of my home town.

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