Pics from your State Sanctioned Exercise.

[ginger_syn]

 

[quimcunx]

 

[Supine]

 

[marty21]

Swans & Signets ! On the River Lea .Male House Sparrow on the River Lea .Coot nest on the River Lea , this has been a Coot nesting spot for several years.Swan nest on Walthamstow Marshes.


Very birdy today , did go looking for a cuckoo that had been spotted near the Marina , but failed to see or hear it .

 

[existentialist]

On Friday, I went for a walk down to the shoreline - a bit of rock cut off from the main beach path by the high tide. Not very far, but a big fuckoff hill to climb back up again afterwards.

Looking out across the Taf estuary - the bump behind the bit on the left (Craig Ddu) is Ferryside, on the right is St John's Hill and behind that the marshes of the Ginst. Right over on the horizon is the Gower.


St John's Hill (went up that today), and a little bit of the Laugharne foreshore.


Little bit of sun glinting off Craig Ddu (on the Llanybri peninsula)...and lots of water. This is mudflats with a little stream at low tide.


The evening sun is just imparting a bit of a glow to a house at Pentowyn (it's possible that the house IS Pentowyn!)

 

[existentialist]

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Did you make the heart, Clair De Lune?

 

[existentialist]

Today's Government-Approved Exercise was a 3-4 mile walk over St John's Hill. I was too busy puffing my way up the hill to take many pictures, but I grabbed a couple.

A somewhat overexposed dog rose (take your sunglasses off before photographing!)


More wild roses, and a bit too much sun.



Blossom, hawthorn I think...


Panoramic view of the Three Estuaries, at half tide. High Voltage might recognise this view.


Wisteria, on the road back down into Laugharne.

 

[quimcunx]

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This windmill, in Brixton, is operating and donating the flour to food banks. It is also being sold in a tiny shop nearby so I'm gonna buy some.

Brixton Windmill's sails keep turning

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[Leafster]

It's been overcast, a little misty and just a bit blowy today. I decided to follow a few paths and tracks I'd spotted on other walks but hadn't ventured down.





This track is more or less a straight line running for almost a mile











My first attempt at a stitched panorama



It's not always pretty in the countryside







I found some more water but I suspect it's man-made being 220m up on the top of a field.







It's definitely a bit misty over the Weald today but look at the buttercups

 

[Clair De Lune]

Did you make the heart, Clair De Lune?

I did.
I upcycled it and will be selling it on etsy as a lockdown jigsaw.

 

[WouldBe]

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Nice brickwork or pissed Brickie.

 

[marty21]

Bought a car from this slightly dodgy looking place in Homerton about 11 years ago , got 9 years out of Gunther (A green Golf) . newish Academy School on Homerton High Street .A heron , on a bridge, in Clapton.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

This is the field in Hampshire where Jarvis Cocker left an important part of his brain...



And so mooched around the rest of the area this morning, very windy...

 

[planetgeli]

^

Even though that's a fairly undefined picture Bahnhof Strasse I'm pretty sure your bird there is a nuthatch. In case you were wondering.

 

[Boru]

The light at the end of the tunnel ...

 

[SpookyFrank]

Saw a kestrel flying right by me today while I was cycling along the riverbank. He was doing the classic hover-hover swoop going back and forth, not ten feet away from me. Best opportunity I've ever had to get a good picture and...no card in my camera. Still in my laptop back at home. So you'll have to take my word for it

 

[not a trot]

M3 motorway 15 minutes ago. On my into work for a few hours.

 

[neonwilderness]

 

[kebabking]

we started out at 6.15 this morning. gorgeous, but very cold in the wind - fantastic walk. we even socked it to the man by having a picnic...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

^

Even though that's a fairly undefined picture Bahnhof Strasse I'm pretty sure your bird there is a nuthatch. In case you were wondering.

I was wondering, thanks. We get them on our feeder in the garden, eating upside down seems to be their thing, but this fella was too far away for my poor eyes to see what he was, so ta!

 

[existentialist]

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we started out at 6.15 this morning. gorgeous, but very cold in the wind - fantastic walk. we even socked it to the man by having a picnic...

You got the kebabprincesses out of the house at 0615???

 

[chainsawjob]

The river Trent was like glass today, never seen it so still. Wasn't that long ago it was going at 40mph and eating large swathes of the countryside.

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Beautiful, it's like a mill pond, and all those hawthorns (looks like). Fond memories of the Trent.

 

[Clair De Lune]

Been in all day feeling super low in energy. But this eve I just had to get out for a march...so I'm watching the sun fade with a cider on the beach.

 

[chainsawjob]

Bog cotton, the foals are born (this weekend I think), tall trees in the wind, no kids at school

 

[kebabking]

You got the kebabprincesses out of the house at 0615???

No drama. Stand to starts at 0430L...

 

[Marty1]

Heron taking off from rock on right.

 

[existentialist]

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That's a lovely view!

 

[kebabking]

-2c at 0610 this morning...

somewhere over the Moon. Air France, somewhere over Monmouth at 40,000ft...

amy twitchers about? smaller than a hens egg (but not tiny), very flat, matte green - came out of an Oak tree...

crap photo, but a Fallow fawn - body about the size of a cat, long spindly legs. included for the uber-cuteness...

 

[Leafster]

Beautiful photos kebabking ! It was cold here but not below freezing although it came pretty close.

The egg might be a blackbird's but I'm not an expert.

 

[WouldBe]

Beautiful photos kebabking ! It was cold here but not below freezing although it came pretty close.

The egg might be a blackbird's but I'm not an expert.

Blackbirds eggs are a sky blue all over and about 20mm long. That rings a bell but can't remember what it is.