Is he dead ? 🤞
Often found wandering around South Devon and Dartmoor lugging a camera and playing Jethro Tull songs in my head.
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Is he dead ? 🤞
I'm sure my daughter won't mind me sharing. This is how her dog Juniper greets her in the mornings.
Here's a fact for you all. Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK. Not ONE. This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit. But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
I don't think the Common Pheasant gets enough love, spectacular bird. 🦉🪶 #wildlife #nature #sonya6700
I saw the Martin Barre Band perform this and many more at the Cropredy festival 6 days ago, he's still phenomenal!
No-one better through the 70's. To think Anderson had a filthy cold during this performance 🤔
They were bloody noisy last night. My daughters poor doggo has to be sedated to get through it 😢
I didn't ask sadly, it was more about the logistics of getting a suitable orchestra in to a studio that was available. I would imagine any solo contributions could be recorded later in IA and MB home studios.
There have been a few false starts but this seems promising. I spoke to Dee a few months ago and she was very hopeful that it would all fall in to place this time. Here's hoping 🙏
My dad served on HMS Cleopatra from 1944 to 1946. It was also a Dido- class light cruiser.
I much prefer this to Lend Me Your Ears which seems a little rushed and opportunistic in comparison.
Still going through the hundreds of photos I took in The Farne Islands a few weeks ago, I think it's almost impossible to take a bad photo of a puffin, such beautiful birds. 🪶🦉 #nature #birds #wildlife #photography #a6700 #northumbria
A more straightforward rock album from Tull with some outstanding guitar work from Martin Barre
I have them all, running out of shelf space 😅
It's a start 😀
Saw this tour in Germany, it was fantastic. Jobson and Craney both great and Dave Pegg simply brilliant. Ian and Martin both seemed rejuvenated.
Yes it genuinely is. They loved it there. Many hours spent throwing a tennis ball for Misty the Westie.
Ooh, see that bench on the left ? That's my mum and dad's bench that is😁
The heat was keeping most of the birds under cover but I guess this Marsh Harrier was hungry. 🪶🦉#birds #nature #rspb #hamwall #wildlifephotography #sonya6700
Went for an evening walk past a field and saw a few hares. Elusive things but got a few shots including one of a leveret hunkered down, stationary. Also spotted a yellowhammer although it was getting pretty dark by then. #nature #wildlife #ukwildlife #hares
I think this Puffin's camouflage needs a bit of work 🤔 #birds #nature #wildlife #birdphotography 🪶🦉
I used to enjoy the Cider & Sausage Festival at the Clovelly ☺️
Fabulous album.
I've never posted a monochrome bird photo before. There's something about the simplicity of this shot i think works better this way. Arctic Tern on Inner Farne 🐦🪶 #birds #nature #photography #sony #ukwildlife
A wonderful album, not a weak track on it.
A guillemot enjoying a snack. #birds #nature #innerfarne 🪶🦉 ##Sonya6700 ##sony200-600g
A beautiful Swallow guarding it's nest and chicks on Lindisfarne Island. 🪶🦉 #birds #nature #wildlife #lindisfarne #photography #sonya6700
A particularly evil looking juvenile House Sparrow. 🦉🪶 #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #sonya6700
Longstone lighthouse and the landing stage at Inner Farne. Only a couple of miles apart but very different. #lighthouse #farneislands #Northumberland ##landscapephotography
🪶🦉 Just spent a fantastic hour on Inner Farne with the puffins, razorbills, Arctic Terns etc. Hundreds of photos to sort through. #sonya6700 #sony200-600g
The idea that we can "easily" overthrow the regime in Iran is a fantasy of people that have never served. Afghanistan is back in the hands of the Taliban after 20 years of slaughter. Iraq still isn't peaceful. Libya is a war zone that's been in civil war since we dropped bombs. History is screaming!
I'm booked to go there next Tuesday, hope the weather holds.
Nope, current camera doesn't have it.
🐧🪶 I spent a very wet hour on Dartmoor and in the few breaks in the cloud caught a Wheatear, Meadow Pippit and a soggy Sand Martin #Devon #Dartmoor #Photography #Sonya6700
The Herald has been drifting further right for years. At least Telford the author of this piece is making good use of his creative writing degree 😅
I can't think of any other album that rewards repeated listening as much as this one. Something new every time.
No, no, no ! To me it's perfect as it is
Tesla Takedown in Boston.
🪶🦉I have a habit of trying to fill the frame with the subject when shooting birds, I think these show why it's not always necessary. I like that they show the habitat. #nature #birdphotography #birds #sonya6700 #photography #devon #
🪶🦉 Startled a Great Egret who leapt out of the reeds, flew around and made his feelings very clear 😅 #rspbhamwall #birdphotography #nature #sonya6700
Coverage of idiots claiming ‘betrayal’ or ‘surrender’ isn’t just bad journalism, it’s a dereliction of our duty to explain things. I’d actually forgotten just how bad it got but here we are, straight back to treating liars & spivs like authorities of equal weight to experts & honest brokers.
These are excellent, if you pop along the embankment to Coypool you can try them and compare with loads of others. www.hbh-woolacotts.co.uk/audio/headph...
On 9-11,2001,four planes were hijacked by terrorists,&three of them were used to attack targets in the U.S.Planes struck the World Trade Center in New York City,one plane hit the Pentagon in Arlington,Va,the fourth plane crashed in a field in PA.15 of the hijackers were Saudi citizens. Never Forget🤨
It’s shameful that any public utility gives six-figure bonuses to staff, let alone one teetering on the edge. No one in Thames Water should get a bonus when they’re dumping sewage into our rivers.
The Van Dike was legendary. It's also where Ian Anderson first met Martin Barre when Gethsemane supported Tull in 1968.
Why is this arse gravy infecting my feed ? Blocked
An hour spent on Dartmoor looking for shots outside my normal nature/wildlife stuff. #photography #landscapephotography #dartmoor #sonyphotography
Solar panels to be fitted on all new-build homes in England by 2027
May 1st, Mayday, Beltane. Call it what you will but be sure to play this. #jethrotull youtu.be/XzJVZ5Uda84?...
So if we abuse him enough he might give up his awful radio and tv shows? Worth a try surely.
#birds #UKBirds #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #UKWildlife #sonya6700 #wildlifephotography #nature #naturephotography 🦉 A little selection of UK birds from SW England, Wales and Scotland
"Staggeringly, an estimated 1.2 million illegal immigrants now live here. " Not that any of our intrepid media class will bother to say anything, but this is a flat-out lie from Farage. archive.ph/iPEN9
🪶🦉 A pair of Cuckoo's having a mid-air squabble over Dartmoor. #birds #wildlifephotography #nature #dartmoor #sonya6700
We've had nearly 3 weeks of superb weather in Plymouth but as it's breaking soon I thought I'd better make the most of tonight's sunset. A gig crew heading home after a training session. #Plymouth #landscape #sunset #photography #sonya6700
Er.... no they haven't
The Nuthatch, one of my favourite woodland birds. 🪶🦉 #ukbirds #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #sonya6700
🪶🦉 Common Buzzard resting in the spring sunshine.
Posted by @niallstanage.bsky.social on another platform: “The recipient of Elon's first $1 million check in Wisconsin, Nicholas Jacobs, has the same name and looks very similar to the chairman of the Wisconsin College Republicans.”
It seems le Pen is not as mighty as le Sword after all. 😊🇨🇵
It certainly was today. Was heading for Tavy Cleave but the mist and light rain was closing in so made a tactical retreat to a pub.
An absolute masterpiece
Seen in Denmark recently. Which urinal would YOU use?
Outside the American Embassy in London.... London rocks......✊🏼
🪶🦉 The elusive Water Rail seen today at Stover Country Park in Devon #birds #nature #wildlife #nature
🪶🦉 The tree outside my lounge window seems to be a popular place today.
Looking forward to seeing her at Cropredy in August
🪶🦉 A beautiful Grey Heron guarding it's nest and then taking flight. Taken today at RSPB Ham Wall #RSPB #nature #birds #photography #sony
First listen was in the car, pretty good. 2nd listen was through some very good headphones. What a difference! As my musician son-in-law says whenever I play any Tull for him " Oh wow, there's a lot going on there isn't there ? ". Overall it's a pretty great album.
I was also at Nostell Priory, that was some weekend
Unusually for Devon we've had no rain for nearly a week. Just beautiful cold clear days and amazing sunsets. #sunset #nature #Devon #Plymouth #England #photography #sony
The classic Man at Mole Valley look 😅
There's a song about that 😁 youtu.be/9ChGQimPwQA?...
Everyone's favourites - maybe ? A Robin and a Blue Tit 🦉🪶 #sonya6700 #nature #birds
Portrait of a Little Egret, you wouldn't want to be fish on the wrong end of that beak ! 🦉🪶 #sonya6700 #nature #birds
A happy looking Grey Heron caught in evening sunlight at Otter Estuary Nature Reserve 🦉🪶 #sonya6700 #nature #birds
A cormorant in flight over the Otter Estuary Nature reserve, if you look closely you can see a fishing hook stuck in it's beak 😡 🦉🪶 #sonya6700 #nature #birds
He's not the only Reform politician who has a history of making pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament. Entirely unrelatedly, here's Nigel Farage doing the same
“The Ukrainian president was elected in free elections in Ukraine..he is an elected president of a free system. That's not the case with Vladimir Putin, who kills his opponents and has been manipulating his elections for a long time” Emmanuel Macron President of France 👏
To be clear it was for Best Hard Rock or Metal performance. Anyone who thinks Tull can't be hard rock hasn't listened to Crest of a Knave.
If any of our former NATO or Five Eyes allies have intelligence data and assessments, which surely they must, about the background of the leader of their new strategic adversary, the United States, now is as good a time as any to release them, subject to protection of methods and sources, of course.
Ah, The Great Moostone
Dark Pence is back.
Also, solar power and heat, and power and heat storage are getting so darn cheap that within a few years all (!) fossil fuel based economies and empires will implode. You want Putin and Trump gone? Go solar! What are you waiting for?
Trump is on Putin's side. That's it. That's the story and if you are on Trump and Putin's side then you're on the side of murder, fear, war and autocracy. Find it absolutely staggering that some people who you'd expect so much more of are cheering this nightmare on
I've just deleted my Airbnb account. Feels like the right thing 😊
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One man and his dog. I was actually looking for birds to photograph when for a few seconds this view presented itself. #nature #dogs #exeter #sony #sel200600g
A quiet day for birds at Otter Estuary Nature Reserve, just a Common Buzzard and an even more common Robin #birds #Nature #wildlife 🦉🪶
A Coot sitting on a very impressive nest. Stover Country Park in Devon #birds #nature #wildlife
A few Grey Heron shots from South Devon #birds 🦉🪶 #nature #wildlife
If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much. The real #TwoTierPolicing www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
I really, really hope this happens
