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Three approaches to foraging from the bumblebees on the herb bed this afternoon: fast-forward, thorough and - for the red-tailed which might be a drone - settling down on a chive flower.
#bumblebee #naturesketchbook #drawingbees
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Attracted to the moth trap in our back garden, do those tufts make it a prominent?
#moths #mothtrap #mothtrapping #naturesketchbook #naturejournal
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"I happen to like fjords, I think they give a lovely baroque feel to a continent." said Slartibartfast, the Magrathean planetary designer in ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’.
I think the same about the crinkled leaf edges of curled dock.
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Barbara’s mum, Betty Ellis, would have been 100 years old today. Her son John at was born at Manygates Maternity Hospital during an air raid in 1941:
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In some ways Europe hasn’t progressed much since then.
#bettyellis #wakefieldblitz #manygates
Happy birthday (yesterday) to Damian, who once constructed a greenhouse using recycled plastic water bottles. Of course in real life he never messes up on dimensions.
#cartoon #shed #elephant #popupcard
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Recent excavations at Creswell Crags shed new light on the domestication of dogs and cats . . .
#cartoon #popupcard @CreswellCrags
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Nettle drawn at Newmillerdam yesterday. The rolled leaf reminded me of the Naturalists’ Handbook, 'Insects on Nettles'. I ought to take a closer look . . .
#nettles #naturejournal #stingingnettle
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A hoof fungus acts as a canopy over this nuthatch nest hole in a willow at Wintersett Reservoir.
Angler's Country Park #nuthatch #naturejournal
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Happy birthday to Roger, who doesn’t need satnav to find his way around the Dales.
#cartoon #sheepdog #bordercollie #satnav
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Happy birthday (yesterday) to Bass Rocker Liz.
#bassrock #cartoon #bassguitarist
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