Photos taken with Harvard NASA telescope
Archive for March, 2013
Following on from Richard III in a car park and a possible site for the burial of Alfred the Great comes……..
Archaeologists believe Boudicca who battled Romans may be buried beneath McDonald’s restaurant in Birmingham – Birmingham Mail…
— Archeology Rome (@jntribolo) March 31, 2013
But then again tomorrow is 1st April
A great GWR loco, City of Truro, meets one of its modern counterparts
3717 CITY OF TURO twitter.com/train12341/sta…
— train12341 (@train12341) March 31, 2013
That most iconic of Steam trains – The Flying Scotsman
502 flying Scotsman twitter.com/train12341/sta…
— train12341 (@train12341) March 31, 2013
A replica Roman Kitchen from The Museum of London
Birdlog Saturday 30th March
Posted: March 30, 2013 in Birds, Natural HistoryTags: Birdlog, Birds, nature
Not a promising day cold overcast and wet!! When will the spring arrive?
Not a lot of activity in the garden but one fascinating sight. You may recall that I have mentioned before that we think we have Blue Tits in nesting box 2 and that on previous occasions they have seen off first a Treecreeper and then a Nuthatch. Well this morning the Nuthatch was back and trying to get into the box. Now there is just one problem with this – the hole is too small. So the Nuthatch then decides to make it larger! He was drumming away just like a woodpecker for 10 minutes or so and then flew off. All this time there was a Blue Tit in a nearby bush but it made no attempt to chase the Nuthatch off as it had done previously. Perhaps it is considering that maybe this isn’t quite such a des-Res after all
Daylist
Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Common Pigeon [sp] (Columba livia)
Common Wood Pigeon [sp] (Columba palumbus)
Rose-ringed Parakeet [sp] (Psittacula krameri)
Eurasian Magpie [sp] (Pica pica)
Carrion Crow [sp] (Corvus corone)
Great Tit [sp] (Parus major)
Eurasian Blue Tit [sp] (Cyanistes caeruleus)
Eurasian Nuthatch [sp] (Sitta europaea)
Common Blackbird [sp] (Turdus merula)
These are pictures of a Wood Duck which spent a couple of months on the Tarn at the end of 2012
Blackeye galaxy
Posted: March 29, 2013 in AstronomyTags: Astrophotography, Bradford Robotic telescope, Galaxy
Two pictures of the Blackeye galaxy taken using the Bradford Robotic telescope
The Blackeye galaxy (M64 or NGC 4826) was discovered in 1779. It contains a large dust cloud in the centre of the galaxy which absorbs light and gives rise to its name.It contains evidence of two colliding galaxies.
For more information see
http://www.messier.seds.org/m/m064.html
http://www.skyimagelab.com › Hubble Photos
Butterflies on display
Posted: March 29, 2013 in Butterflies and Moths, Natural HistoryTags: Butterflies Nature
Looking forward to this exhibition at Natural History Museum
Pete's Favourite Things 