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

Blue Moon Butterfly

The Blue Moon Butterfly or Great Eggfly is found in Madagascar, Southern Asia and Oceania. It has a wingspan of…

Butterflies, nature

Naturelog: Tuesday 21st May

This morning I made my way to Sutcliffe Park Nature reserve to look for warblers. On arrival I thought I…

Birds, Naturelog

Naturelog: Monday 20th May

Things still quite busy so have not had much time for birdwatching. But today I had sometime at home and…

Birds, Naturelog

Swan Nebula

The Swan Nebula (AKA the Lobster or Horseshoe Nebula) (M17/NGC6618) is a very bright gas cloud containing dust and molecular…

astronomy, Astrophotography, Bradford Robotic telescope

Bird pictures: Pheasant

Birds

Fishbourne Roman Palace (4)

By the third century there is a clear change in the mosaics found in the Palace. Gone are the black-and-white…

Fishbourne Palace, Roman history

Podcast: Natures Voice

The natures voice podcast comes from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and appears monthly. The subject…

nature, Podcast, royal society for the protection of birds, rspb website

Humpback Whales

photos taken in Monteray Bay California USA

nature, Whales

A ‘virtual’ tour of GWR works Swindon (2)

Today our tour takes us to the foundry, the patternmakers shop and the machine shop where all the parts were…

History, Steam Trains

Bird pictures: Mute Swan

Birds, nature

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