Mick Brooks

@mick666.bsky.social

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Poole-based, retired from the NHS, with birdy, movie, music and politics interests 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Not a togger! Ex-Labour now Green. Ex-union rep (Unite). Ex-SAFC. PhD in neutron physics. Full bird list on eBird.com Films: https://boxd.it/mBT

A photo of my “Dawn of the Dead” t-shirt with a “happy 60th birthday “ pin badge attached
A Common Swift approaches head-on with its wings high
A single ringed Osprey with a blue ring flying high
A cartoon depicting the de-evolution of US presidents from Lincoln to tRump
A graphic of posters of my last four films watched The Bride! Send Help One Battle After Another Mickey17
A flock of 27 Cattle Egret in summer plumage stand on an island, preening
My last four films watched Final destination bloodlines Superman Libel Man on a swing
A Common Swift flies by, its wings straight and flat
A Corn Bunting singing from a fence post
A Skylark stands on a gravel path, it's crest erect
An immature Shag sitting on a large red buoy
A new Chiffchaff is stretching it's wings
A adult Mute Swan stands in shallow water with 4 cygnets. Two are the white 'polish' variety, two are the normal pale grey colouration
A Common Swift catches the morning sunlight, showing its scaly plumage
A Red-footed Falcon flying over a grassy field
a Red-footed Falcon is carrying a large green beetle in it's beak
A Red-footed Falcon glides through the sky.
A Snow Bunting perches in a tree looking over its right shoulder.
A group of Dunlin and Ringed Plover all in summer plumage stand together on a mud flat
Heat-hazed distant digiscoped photo of a small flock of Dunlin and Ringed Plover feeding on a mudflat
John Carpenter plays keyboards with his backing band. Behind the band scenes from The Thing are being projected
A male Redstart sits on a dead branch. It is a mixture of pure white, pitch black, slate grey and various shades or orange.
A Shelduck attacks a female Mallard who has her brood with her
A group of Jackdaw fly in front of a wooded area. One of them is totally pale grey, one of them seems piebald!
Fifi the cat is sat on her friend’s knee, watching Commando on TV
A Brown Hare sits in grass, surrounded by dandelion clocks
A distant Whinchat stands on a barbed wire fence, next to a wooden post
A European Robin perches on a car wing mirror, a very commonly published photo, but a first for me!
A female (?) Bearded Tit clings to some reed stems in the morning sunshine
A digiscoped shot of a Hoopoe feeding in the short grass of a paddock
Two Red Knot stand in shallow choppy water, with several Black-tailed Godwit feeding nearby
An Osprey glide in a blue sky. It has a blue ring on it's right leg with the engraving 'Y1' indicating it is a bird that was hatched at Kielder water in Northumberland
A Wheatear stands on a barded wire fence
A Spotted Redshank stands on one leg in a mudflat. It has lost some of it’s silvery winter plumage and is getting darker breeding plumage
A pair of Gargany roosting by a pond
A Ruff, stood in shallow water with it's back to us appears to be being talked at by a larger bird, a Black-tailed Godwit. A Redshank stands nearby
A Red Kite flies in a pale grey sky, it's wings partly bent
A Spotted Redshank chases and pecks at a Redshank
A Jay is looking for food in a rocky grass covered area
Posters for my last four films watched. For a few dollars more, Luc Besson’s Dracula, The Healing, Fargo
A Siskin sits on a twig
A male Crossbill perches on a thin branch facing right
A Snow Bunting sits on a branch high in a tree
A Snow Bunting sits in a bush, it's head turned to one side
A group of Glossy Ibis feeing in a flooded grassy field
A distant Little Gull jinks over a flooded field, in light misty conditions
A Red kite looks down for prey in a blue sky
A red-rumped Swallow flies in a blue sky
Image shows the last four films I have watched: Anniversary, Fukushima 50, The Last Sacrifice, Things heard and seen
A Meadow Pipit sits on a gate, it's orange legs glowing in the bright sunlight
A Rook stands in a grassy field, with the Sun producing purple gloss on the black feathers.
An adult Great Black-backed Gull is walking out of the surf holding a big Common Sea Star in it's bill
Five Ruddy Turnstone roosting on a groyne with a single Sanderling. The Sanderling is on one leg, showing two coloured rings.
A Purple Sandpiper sits on a damp rock
A Reed Bunting sits at the tip of a Gorse bush branch