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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@alexanderlees.bsky.social another for your AI atrocity album
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fabulous @naturetrek.bsky.social Eclipse Special tour has been a huge success. We watched the eclipse from a stunning location in the mountains south of Santander with perfect, clear skies.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Game on, Nige.
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
@iandunt.bsky.social "it's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me". I think perhaps William of Wykeham put that a little more succinctly 650 or so years ago...."manners makyth man".
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
@peralstrom.bsky.social a contribution to the 'great' 'whistleri' Meadow Pipit debate....in Hampshire, UK.
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Massive success on the last full day of the @naturetrek.bsky.social Oman tour: African Sacred Ibis, Menetrie's, Asian Desert and Yellow-browed Warblers, Sand Partridge, Blue Rock Thrush, Steppe Eagles, Nile Valley Sunbird and at least three superb Grey Hypocoliuses. Image by Mike Morse #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Yesterday's Arabian Grosbeak on the @naturetrek.bsky.social Oman tour. A proper "birders' photo", this one, but the best our group managed! Image by Chris Sidebottom. #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Further Oman drama with @naturetrek.bsky.social An ARABIAN COBRA! Rare and deadly.... but not*too* close. Photo by client Mike Morse.
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
More great times in southern Oman with @naturetrek.bsky.social We're filling in the last few gaps: Black-crowned Tchagra and this Long-billed Pipit (Mike Morse) on a return visit to Ain Hamran. #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
@peralstrom.bsky.social Per, could you take a look at this pipit from Oman today and tell me what you think? Call definitely not Richard's - "chep.....chep".
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
The large pipit from today on the @naturetrek.bsky.social Oman tour. It will need some further analysis, effort and reading, and I would welcome informed comment (only call was a "chep...chep"), but we're thinking quite strongly that it's a Blyth's Pipit, which is a major rarity in Oman. #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
It all went crazy on the Oman @naturetrek.bsky.social tour today! Jouanin's Petrel, Red-billed Tropicbird & Persian Shearwater; Bay-backed Shrike, Brahminy Starling (pic), Asian Koel, Yemen Serin, Bonelli's and Verreaux's Eagles, Arabian Wheatear and Partridges..& a large pipit to work on! #birds
Bay-backed Shrike and Brahminy Starling; both vagrants to Oman from India!
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The Dhofar region is producing the goods for the @naturetrek.bsky.social Oman group: 3/3 Masked Shrike #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The Dhofar region is producing the goods for the @naturetrek.bsky.social Oman group: 2/3 Citrine Wagtail #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The Dhofar region is producing the goods for the @naturetrek.bsky.social Oman group: 1/3 Crested Honey Buzzard #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Oman group finally reached Salalah in the far south of Oman today. And who was waiting for us? A very showy Arabian Eagle-Owl! #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Incredibly, the Asian Koels weren't the highlight of the day on the @naturetrek.bsky.social Oman tour. They were upstaged by a very rare and normally nocturnal AFRICAN WILDCAT, accidentally disturbed from its daytime lair at the base of acacia, 50km from habitation! Photo by client Steve Hughes
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Prussian horse kicks down significantly from four to two. #poisson #iykyk
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Day 6 of the @naturetrek.bsky.social Oman tour starts with a bang: two Asian Koels at Duqm. A very scarce migrant/winterer from India. #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The first of the highly sought-after true Arabian endemics on the @naturetrek.bsky.social Oman tour: (South) Arabian Wheatear. #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Another day, another superb Omani bird with @naturetrek.bsky.social. Greater Hoopoe-Lark. #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Major target unlocked on the @naturetrek.bsky.social Oman tour: the fantastic Crab-plover. #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
More great stuff on the @naturetrek.bsky.social Oman tour. Point blank Pallas's Gull. #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Oman continues to produce the goods for @naturetrek.bsky.social. absurdly close views of Indian Roller and Night Heron today, plus Plain Leaf Warbler, Desert Lark, Hume's and Red-tailed Wheatears & more in the Muscat region's deserts/mountains. #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Oman tour is under way! A jetlag-affected, gentle first day turned up 18 wader species (including Terek Sandpiper), two Isabelline (Daurian) Shrikes and our first eagle, a magnificent Eastern Imperial. #birds
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.
Boromir from THE LORD OF THE RINGS, holding The One Ring. He thought he could use it for good, but everything done with the ring turns to evil. He was one of the mightiest warriors of middle earth, and he could not resist its powers. Others even mightier fell to the ring. Do you think you are stronger than them? The One Ring is generative AI.
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
@markgolley.bsky.social Not white, but hey, you can't complain....today in Iceland.
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The @naturetrek.bsky.social "Gyrfalcons and the Northern Lights" Iceland tour had a sting in the tail!
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
We finished the last full day of the @naturetrek.bsky.social tour of Iceland in style today: frankly unbelievable views of our fourth Gyrfalcon in three days! #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
We finished the last full day of the @naturetrek.bsky.social tour of Iceland in style today: spectacular sulfuric fumaroles
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
We finished the last full day of the @naturetrek.bsky.social tour of Iceland in style today: best views yet of Barrow's Goldeneye #birds
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
@naturetrek.bsky.social Iceland continues: a cracking winter Ptarmigan.
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
@naturetrek.bsky.social Iceland continues: another Gyrfalcon, this one full-cropped, in off the sea and over our heads!
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
@naturetrek.bsky.social Iceland continues: a stunning roadside Merlin.
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
In Iceland with @naturetrek.bsky.social: the Gyrfalcons and Northern Lights tour. Also Barrow's Goldeneye and many Snow Buntings.
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
In Iceland with @naturetrek.bsky.social: the Gyrfalcons and Northern Lights tour. And when darkness fell....
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
In Iceland with @naturetrek.bsky.social: the Gyrfalcons and Northern Lights tour. Our first full day was fairly massive despite us only seeing eight bird species!
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt tour is drawing to a close: we have arrived in Luxor and visited the Temples of Luxor and Karnak. Birds still coming: recent highlights included a big flock of Trumpeter Finches on a Nile Island, multiple Bluethroats, Isabelline Wheatear and Turtle Doves.
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Today the @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt tour found two tropical African birds at their only outpost in the Western Palearctic: Abu Simbel in far southern Egypt. African Pied Wagtail and Long-tailed (or Reed) Cormorant.
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Today the @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continued to the far south of Egypt and the astonishing Abu Simbel, via Mourning Wheatears, a Greater Spotted Eagle and Black Storks.
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts....Red-throated Pipit: a migrant from the Siberian tundra to East Africa. Only a few winter in Egypt. 6/6
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts.... White-winged Tern, the scarcest tern we are seeing, behind Whiskered and Gull-billed. 5/6
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts....Senegal Thick-knee 4/6
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts.... Siberian Stonechat (maura), one of two Stonechat species which winter here. 3/6
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts....Ferruginous Ducks in abundance and very confiding on the Nile. 2/6
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour continues, with "wonderful things" on both fronts.... 1/6
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Day 2 of the @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour was all birds, around Qarun Lake west of Cairo. Masses of waders and waterbirds, African Green Bee-eaters, Little Heron, 3 kingfisher species, Senegal Thick-knee, Senegal Coucal and the near-endemic Nile Valley Sunbird.
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Day 1 of the @naturetrek.bsky.social Egypt - Birds and History tour was almost all history! Much of the day was at the extraordinary, brand-new Grand Egyptian Musuem, where we enjoyed ALL of the Tutankhamun trove, Khufu's solar funerary ship and so much more. An incredible start!
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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skwoolley.bsky.social @skwoolley.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Some fantastic wildlife on the @naturetrek.bsky.social Go Slow in Switzerland tour: Nutcracker, Lammergeiers, Snowfinches, dozens of glorious butterflies and masses of great plants. 15 species of orchids today, including Coralroot, Lesser Twayblabe, Globe-flowered, and the epic Lady's Slipper.
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