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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Open Street Map has added the new US English name but has also added the official names for a whole load of other languages

Open Street Map tags for Lake Ontario:
Relation: Lake Ontario (1206310)
Version #471
Added official US name as per Executive Order 14172.

Edited about 4 hours ago by MapBroker
Changeset #188230518
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ele 75
intermittent no
name Lake Ontario
name:ar بحيرة أونتاريو
name:be Возера Антарыа
name:br Lenn Ontario
name:cay Ganyadáiyoˀ
name:cr ᑭᐦᒋ ᓵᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣ
name:crk kihci-sâkahikan
name:cs Ontarijské jezero
name:da Ontariosøen
name:de Ontariosee
name:en Lake Ontario
name:es Lago Ontario
name:et Ontario järv
name:fa دریاچه انتاریو
name:fi Ontariojärvi
name:fr Lac Ontario
name:he ימת אונטריו
name:hu Ontarió-tó
name:is Ontaríó-vatn
name:it Lago Ontario
name:ja オンタリオ湖
name:lt Ontarijo ežeras
name:moh Oniatarí:io
name:nl Ontariomeer
name:oj Niigani-gichigami
name:pl Jezioro Ontario
name:ru озеро Онтарио
name:sk Ontárijské jazero
name:sv Ontariosjön
name:te ఒన్ టారియో
name:uk Онтаріо
name:zh 安大略湖
name:zh-Hans 安大略湖
natural water
note If editing please make sure outer is intact and all islands are inner
official_name:en-US Lake America
salt no
sqkm 19011
tidal no
type multipolygon
water lake
wikidata Q1062
wikipedia en:Lake Ontario

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In our kitchen just now, just in time for tea. Largest British fly species and the stuff of nightmares.

Female giant horsefly, tabanus sudeticus, I think.

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Another five minute #Merlin sample from my South Shropshire garden.

Five minute Merlin sample identifying Greenfinch, Wren, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Blackbird, Wood-Pigeon, Song Thrush, Jackdaw and Ring-Necked Pheasant.

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

There's a large gang of juvenile #bluetits dashing around the garden. Managed to get a quick photo of one.

Not quite sharp photo of a juvenile blue tit. I think it's spotted me.

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I opened my South #Shropshire garden doors this morning to a wall of bird song, so I took another five minute #Merlin sample, including the first cuckoo that I've noticed this year. #birds

Merlin bird sample listing garden warbler, blackbird, wood pigeon, chaffinch, robin, wren, dunnock, cuckoo, ring-necked pheasant, goldfinch, blackcap and greenfinch.

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I've not done one of these for a while, so as I could hear this lot even through the double glazing, here's a five minute Merlin sample (not through double glazing). #shropshire #ChurchStretton #birds

5 minutes of Merlin sampling in my South Shropshire garden today. Birds listed are Goldfinch, Blackbird, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Dunnock, Siskin, Wren, Blackcap, Robin.

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Second in an occasional series of five minute Merlin birdsong identifications from South Shropshire.

Screen capture from the Merlin birdsong identification app listing Wren, Great Tit, Song Thrush, Robin, Chiffchaff, Blackbird, Wood-Pigeon, Blue Tit, Ring-necked Pheasant and Blackcap.

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I'm quietly optimistic about the accuracy of the Met Office forecast for Hereford, where I'll be heading shortly to do some outdoor stuff.

Mostly dry forecast for Hereford on Good Friday afternoon.

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Morning all. Weather here in South Shropshire is cool and dull with a hint of damp from recent rain. Here's a five minute Merlin sample taken just now.

Five minute Merlin sample listing European Robin. Eurasian Wren. Common Chiff Chaff, Eurasian Blackcap, Great Tit, Ring-necked Pheasant, Eurasian Blue Tit and Coal Tit.

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

More strong aurora alerts tonight. Us in south Shropshire:

Screenshot from the Met Office app showing a forecast of 6 degrees and heavy rain for the next hour

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

An hour later and noticeably thicker in SY6 #uksnow 8/10

Snow on railings and shrubs, probably 70-80mm now

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Looks like about 50mm of snow already in SY6 (200m asl) #uksnow 7/10

Steel railings with 50mm of snow on them

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Our local hill can't even peak through the clouds here, let alone the sun.

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Live chat confirms that a camera got taken out so that must have been what I saw.

Screenshot of live chat mourning the death of camera A when the eruption spread to its location.

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Not caught, just spotted on an overgrown flower bed in our front garden: a scarlet tiger

Scarlet tiger moth on some grass and stuff

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Must try harder (I've left out the week I spent snowbound in the CIC hut on Ben Nevis, so add a couple of points for that)

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

My alternative to doom scrolling is to photograph the birds in my Shropshire garden. Google says this is a starling. I thought it was a fledgling but when it eventually flew off it seemed quite competent.

Nondescript bird on fence. Dunnock sized or slightly larger.

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

If you see this, post a tree. An old chestnut. Can you see it?

Pareidolia in the bark of an old chestnut tree

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

A few miles away in Church Stretton's Rectory Wood...

Pareidolia (seeing faces) on a big old chestnut tree in Rectory Wood, Church Stretton

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

By "cereal", don't you mean "porridge" and by "Demerara" don't you mean "Lyles Golden Syrup"?

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

And this is what sharp sand looks like under a microscope. An essential component of all construction projects. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Not actually mine - that wasn't a thing in 1970

ICL 1900 Series mainframe computer occupying an entire room.

Image from Kelvin Lawrence on Pinterest

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Christmas Cheshireman steaming through Church Stretton on 25th November 2023, en route from Chester to Bristol.

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 01/08/2024

I saw one of these ten years ago (9/8/8/2014) at my parents' old house in West Wickham. Not seen any before or since. It was a highlight at a time when everything else was fading.

Jersey Tiger Moth, West Wickham, Kent, 9/8/14 (non-US date format)

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

Maybe, yes. Also the stopthetories site has just decided to support labour too so it looks likely that's the way I'll go. As I've said before, the price of getting it wrong is a new Tory MP (as the old one is not standing this time).

Screen shot of the stopthetories.vote tactical voting advice for the South Shropshire constituency.

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Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 @stuartbaldwin.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

I don't use it as much as I could - will try harder. Small thing: a bit of a layout glitch on my Pixel 7a

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