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Birds and trains and history and all of the things that I enjoy

Author: Pete

I am semi-retired after a career in medical sciences. I now work from home doing independent research and consultancy amongst other things. One advantage of this is that I do have time to indulge my interests including birdwatching, natural history, steam trains and history particularly ancient history.

A4 Union of South Africa at York yesterday

A great video of A4 Union of South Africa leaving York station yesterday 60009 UNIONIN VI 28.04.2013 of SOUTH AFRICA … More

A4 locomotive, National Railway Museum, Steam Trains

Your Favourite Steam Loco poll

A change to vote for your favourite Steam locomotive REMINDER!!! Don't Forget To Vote For The Most Famous Steam Locomotive! … More

Steam Trains

A4 Bittern

4464 bittern pic.twitter.com/UW3BNiDzy0 — TRAIN12341 (@train12341) April 28, 2013

A4 locomotive, National Railway Museum, Steam Trains

Union of South Africa

60009union of South Africa pic.twitter.com/zZbZgHMrLP — TRAIN12341 (@train12341) April 28, 2013

A4 locomotive, National Railway Museum, Steam Trains

Campaigners call for ban on seabird killer

Originally posted on Green Living London:
This pair of guillemots were casualties of pollution by PIB. Pic: RSPB Three leading wildlife organisations…

Birds, nature

Naturelog: Friday 26th April

A lovely sunny day. Sue and I went for a walk down to the Tarn. The little Grebe was still … More

Birdlog, Birds, Butterflies, Naturelog, Tarn

Blackeye galaxy

Image taken with Bradford robotic telescope For more images and further information see post https://petesfavouritethings.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/blackeye-galaxy/

Astrophotography, Bradford Robotic telescope

Bird pictures: Starling

One of our commonest birds, although wintering numbers seem to be declining and the sight of swirling winter flocks seems … More

Birds

Naturelog: Thursday 25th April

A beautiful sunny day and so after working all morning decided to go to Greenwich Park to see if the … More

Birdlog, Birds, Butterflies, Greenwich, nature, Naturelog, Tarn

M31 – Andromeda galaxy

The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth in the Andromeda constellation. Also known as … More

Astrophotography, Bradford Robotic telescope

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