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Mike Weedon

@weedonsworld.bsky.social

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Birder, wildlife-watcher, dibbler in photography. Views my own.

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Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Eeyore Aggers' dreary, anti-England, Aussie-worshipping, miserable, hindsight style of cricket commentary is even more annoying than Farage-soundalike, Surrey-mad Norcross. He is bloody delighted that Duckett is out.

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Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

If England played like Australia, the Brisbane day-night test would be destined to end in a very tedious draw. But that is what Eeyore Aggers seems to want. He bloody hates England trying to win. In fact the whole TMS team seem to yearn for a draw, desperately hoping for rain to ruin the game. Poor.

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Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Harsh. He was very pro-active in encouraging Israel's genocide in Gaza, via his war criminal chum Netanyahu. And he has done his best to give big chunks of Ukraine away. Give him credit for some things.

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Will Bowell- Just Wild Images @justwildimages.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

On this day, 7 years ago. Feet @weedonsworld.bsky.social

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Temminck's Stint and Rock Pipit and Temminck's Stint and Rock Pipit. Etton Pits, Cambs. @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social @paolobolton.bsky.social

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I found a Knot in the misery and drizzle this morning, at Deeping Lakes LWT, Lincs (seems typical weather for these scarce inland wanderers to drop in around the Peterborough area). A year tick for me, I think it is the first we have had locally, this year. @lincsbirding.bsky.social

A winter-plumaged Knot, with Gadwalls

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Very nice, Mark.

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

At Deeping Lakes LWT, Lincs, this morning I heard the 'gok gok gok gok' call of Bittern and prepared to walk from the east screen of the east pit to see if I could see it. Then I realised it had come out onto one of the nearby islands. Unfortunately, it also saw me... Check out the huge claws!

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Obviously she should be stripped of peerage, stripped of her assets and jailed, possibly for causing loss of lives in addition to the obscene fraud.

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Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Got some more shots of the Etton, Cambs, Lesser Yellowlegs, today. Nice to meet former Peterborough birder @markgferris.bsky.social for some great photo action. For more pics, see my blog: weedworld.blogspot.com @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social @justwildimages.bsky.social @paolobolton.bsky.social

Lesser Yellowlegs, Etton, Cambs, UK

Lesser Yellowlegs, Etton, Cambs, UK

Lesser Yellowlegs, Etton, Cambs, UK

Lesser Yellowlegs, Etton, Cambs, UK

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Thanks for that Mark. Grab a feather for DNA!

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Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

How do you tell it from atlantis, Mark?

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Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Sunday's Lesser Yellowlegs with Greenshank for comparison. Pig Jaw Pit, Etton, Cambs. More photos on my blog: weedworld.blogspot.com

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LeedsBirder @leedsbirder.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Common Kingfisher strikes a defensive pose to ward off a passing Sparrowhawk #birds #ukbirds #ornithology

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Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Lesser Yellowlegs at Etton-maxey pits, Cambs. In flight with a Greenshank was nice, also Common Sand & Dunlin. 2 or 3 Wheatears were peachey. 2 Red Kites & a Raven mobbing a Sprawk circled together. Trip was a piece of cake & the bird was sublime. Good to meet Mr Weedon #LowCarbonBirding 🪶

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

For a bunch more Lesser Yellowlegs pics (and more), please check out my blog: weedworld.blogspot.com

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

The Lesser Yellowlegs 'showed well' this afternoon at Pig Jaw Pit, Etton Pits, Cambs @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social @dawnbirder.bsky.social @tbart.bsky.social @justwildimages.bsky.social @paolobolton.bsky.social

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Thanks. Feelings mutual. Beware some of the photos I took after nearly everyone left... Coming shortly.

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Will Bowell- Just Wild Images @justwildimages.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Whilst watching a Lesser Yellowlegs at Etton Pits in Cambridgeshire yesterday afternoon (found by Hugh Wright), this Grey Phalarope dropped in. Stayed for c10 mins and then disappeared. We were pretty surprised! @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social @weedonsworld.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

An autumnal scene at Deeping Lakes LWT, Lincs. Young Marsh Harrier.

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Farage and the right medium flipping loves the 'working class' though, the wife-beating scummy ones who riot, hang up flags which substitute for swastikas. Not the educated ones who use their brains.

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Jake Gearty @jakegearty.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Will be @ @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social for Migfest this weekend and would like to giveaway my old scope and tripod. If there's any young birders looking for a used but well loved scope that's seen plenty of rare birds please either point them in my direction or come find me over the weekend! #ukbirding

Viking ED Pro 80mm, Velbon tripod head and Manfrotto tripod

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Tiny Grey Phalarope meets Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa (actually, small wave on Rutland Water).

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Thank you

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Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Hiding in the waterlilies @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Classic early autumn scene for the Peterborough area: female Redstart in a Hawthorn bush. Near Markey Deeping, Lincs, this morning (a bird I found yesterday morning, but was still there today). @lincsbirding.bsky.social

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

One of perhaps half a dozen Clouded Yellows whizzing around the meadows near Milton Airstrip, near Ailsworth, Cambs this lunchtime (also a female Redstart and at least one Whinchat seen). It had become cloudy, and this butterfly was trying to catch some rays to warm up before another feed.

Lightly tatty Clouded Yellow butterfly resting on dry mud in a flower meadow

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Katie Fuller @katiefullerart.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I think these curlew #linocut prints are done. I just added a layer of a slightly darker pinky-purply-brown, and they’re looking good! I wasn’t sure if I’d need a final dark layer on the curlew but I think it works well without it. Now I just need to wait for them to dry…

Curlew linocut print next to block used to print all the colours

Curlew linocut prints - before and after final layer of darker pinky-brown to give definition to bird’s plumage and depth to landscape

Lino block with purply ink on roller

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I spent many hours waiting for a Purple Heron to appear at March Farmers (Nene Washes), on Saturday. No show. Had a few nice Bittern fly-bys though. This is the best I could come up with. @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Yet people get upset (and two sent to prison) about a non-native tree being chopped down along Hadrian's Wall, 'ruining' their shite cliché instagram photos.

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Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I know, terrible isn't it? I even got my son, Ed, to come and watch/listen when the Rootmaster was in the late 90s, predicting the appalling disrespect of the Oval mob. We were both outraged (as usual).

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Highlight of a quick morning birdwatching trip: this Otter crossing the track on its way from pit to river.

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Hugh Harrop @hughharrop.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

RISSO'S DOLPHIN CALVES!! We had a beautiful encounter with a nursery pod of Risso's Dolphins off Levenwick and Clumlie here in Shetland last week. Check out some of those tiny calves - some are only a few days old at most! #MarineLife #MarineMammals #CetaceansUK #UKWildlife

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Striped Dolphins, I believe.

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

I guess it was the yellow bill tip which gave it away.

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Small Red-eyed Damselfly. I am old enough to remember when they used to be very scarce dragonflies in Peterborough and its environs (first found in 2006 in P'boro. I think). Now, we live in a different age. This was one of many on one of the pits of the Baston & Langtoft pits complex, S Lincs.

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

One of the advantages of of living in the east of England is you can sit in your car and sometimes a Marsh Harrier will drift past. @lincsbirding.bsky.social

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Lesser Emperor Baston & Langtoft Pits (Wader Pit), south Lincs

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Egg-laying Emperor Dragonfly and cheeky guest (Common Blue Damselfy). [cue @yolobirder.bsky.social

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Incredibly disrespectful of the Old Trafford crowd to boo Root. He has just become the second highest run-maker in test history, and all they can do is abuse him. It is a disgrace.

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Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Juvenile Black Redstart. Proof of successful breeding in Cambridgeshire. @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

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Dave Roberts. @djrlincsbirder.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Dig a pond!!!! Dug 14th June. Frogs, Beetles, Diving Beetles etc. Today, Damselfly lava seen. Joyous.

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

CORRECT! You win yourself a small verbal reward: well done!

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

OK, JD. You have had your hand up long enough. And literally no one else has responded. Please deliver your answer to the ID conundrum.

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Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I am old enough to remember the Messinian Salinity Crisis. We are screwed.

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Abso-fucking-lutely. Spot on.

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Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Bird ID Challenge. Please identify this bird. Photographed in south Lincolnshire. [probably too easy for most birdwatchers, but too much of a challenge for the less confident birdwatchers in my family...]

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Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Reed Warbler with a beakful to feed its young in the nest (second brood?). A closer look shows that there appear to be a high proportion of hoverflies in the bill.

Mike Weedon @weedonsworld.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

If you were to lie a Little Ringed Plover on its back, bill lying flat, the length between bill tip to tail tip is 15.5-18cm (c6-8 inches), smaller than a Starling. Look how small these baby LRPS are (near their parent)! So cute! #UKBirding @lincsbirding.bsky.social @justwildimages.bsky.social