Even though night mode on the iPhone is capable of seeing pretty faint stars, some times it’s nice to have a bit of cloud to block them out & make the constellations more visible 🤷♂️
Here’s the Ursa Major (the plough or big dipper) over the Peterstal, with its famous “arc to Arcturus” along the handle to the left 🧸
How the Internet really works! We’re in an old area with utilities in the alleys behind the houses. If they’d realized 20 years ago what was going to happen, it would have been cost-effective to dig the trenches and bury all this stuff back then. Kind of astonishing that it works at all, just like the rest of the Internet.
There are two competing “fibre” ISPs in our alley and still we in Canada pay among the world’s highest prices for bandwidth. Where’s that invisible hand…
Two versions of the same photo of two sibling Canada Goslings. Quite liked the Gosling on the right of shots tongue, so cropped it to produce the first image.
Here is one of a pair of Common Tern seeing of a Red Kite that was flying directly above the Terns Nesting site. (The female Tern was sat quietly on the nest). The Kite was shoed away from the lake.
I have pictures of just 3 birds (species) today, but they are all nice in their own way.
We were at Pitstone Water this afternoon, walking round the Wildlife Trust route on the south side. There were a pair of Red Kites that buzzed us as we got out of the car in the car park (and later went on to harass a pair of Common Tern).
Right. I absolutely have stuff to do that isn't sitting here so I will just add this better photo of the windy spot, as the compression on the gif above definitely killed the view a bit.