Robin Ray

@rrrobinray.bsky.social

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Likes books, birds, boardgames, BOTC.

Top down view of a finished game of Wingspan, with two Oceania playing boards topped with various bird cards and eggs. Card decks and counters are arranged on the table in custom made wooden compartments, as well as a wooden bird feeder dice tower. At the top of the photo are four Wingspan expansion boxes: Americas (green), European (purple), Oceania (yellow), and Asia (red).
A greylag goose photographed at close range from above, facing to the left, with a mottled grey body, pink feet, orange and pink beak and a yellow eye.
Top down view of a three-player game of Finspan with three player boards partially filed with different fish cards, with tokens on top of most cards representing eggs, young fish and schools of fish. Elsewhere on the table are piles of tokens and cards, a scorepad, rulebook and objectives tracker.
Head and shoulders of Robin (me, not the bird) with my raincoat hood up on the right foreground of the photo with two Canada geese behind me to the left, and a lake, trees and grey sky in the background.
Screenshot from Merlin app taken at 5.39am, listing Eurasian Blue Tit, Rose-ringed Parakeet, Eurasian Blackbird, Common Wood Pigeon, Canada Goose, Goldcrest, Eurasian Wren and Great Tit. Date of recording is May 3 in Stoke-on-Trent, England.
Top down view of a completed two player game of Everdell Farshore, with two sets of face up construction and critter cards, a pile of seashell tokens next to the set on the left, and a player board designed like a bay with cards and resource tokens on it. There are two player ships around the score tracker on the circumference of the board.
A grey squirrel on all fours at the other end of a wooden park bench, facing the camera, with grass, trees and a path in the background.
Top down view of a finished game of Daybreak with main board and two player areas, one representing China and one the USA. The game ended positively at round 3 of 6, having limited the temperature rise on the thermometer to 1.4 degrees.
Top down photo of a 4-player game of Everdell Farshore about half way through play
Front cover of paperback book. Black background with the author name Chuck Tingle in pink and title Bury Your Gays in purple, pink and orange sunset colours, with an image of a sledgehammer running through the text.
A top down view of a finished forest from Forest Shuffle, featuring several different tree cards surrounded by various animal and plant cards.
A row of seven coloured cards with the days of the week at the top, with various cards on top featuring different illustrated cats worth different points. Above this are a scattering of other, discarded cat cards along with a cat tree card, catnip card and cardboard box card. From the game Cat Days.
Six cards with differently coloured litter trays, a poop collection card with twelve poop tokens, a scoop token and first pooer token, and a card featuring Sebastian the cat who helped me win the game by over-pooping in my opponent's trays. From Litter Tray game.
Top down view of player board / boat from finished game of Isle of Cats. Tessellating tiles of different coloured cats and jewels fill the boat.
Young coot with fluffy black body coated in water droplets and a fluffy yellow head and red face and beak, standing in shallow water surrounded by leaves
Grey heron perched on a railing next to a lake with wings low and open. The tail and wing of a magpie flying out of shot is on the left.
Top down view of a completed player board in the game Wyrmspan, with dragon and cave cards filling all three habitat rows and assorted tokens and eggs on top.
Top down view of a completed player board for the game Calico - tessellating coloured and patterned hexagons with some cardboard cat and button tiles on top
Top down view of a Parks player board at the end of the game.
Top down view of a finished player board from the boardgame Wingspan, with ten face-up bird cards and 2 eggs.
Grey heron standing on the canal bank looking at the water
Top down photo of a finished game of Under Grove, including mushroom tiles and tree components connecting them