Stuart Baldwin 🇬🇱 🇺🇦

@stuartbaldwin.bsky.social

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Retired, #pétanque player, #Shropshire via #Manchester #UK. Ally, I hope. Cochlear implant user. Not always entirely serious. Curmudgeon (h/t @churchcat.bsky.social) E&OE

Female giant horsefly, tabanus sudeticus, I think.
Broad-bodied Chaser dragonfly waiting to be rescued from a skylight.
Five minute Merlin sample identifying Greenfinch, Wren, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Blackbird, Wood-Pigeon, Song Thrush, Jackdaw and Ring-Necked Pheasant.
Not quite sharp photo of a juvenile blue tit. I think it's spotted me.
Merlin bird sample listing garden warbler, blackbird, wood pigeon, chaffinch, robin, wren, dunnock, cuckoo, ring-necked pheasant, goldfinch, blackcap and greenfinch.
5 minutes of Merlin sampling in my South Shropshire garden today. Birds listed are Goldfinch, Blackbird, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Dunnock, Siskin, Wren, Blackcap, Robin.
Screen capture from the Merlin birdsong identification app listing Wren, Great Tit, Song Thrush, Robin, Chiffchaff, Blackbird, Wood-Pigeon, Blue Tit, Ring-necked Pheasant and Blackcap.
Mostly dry forecast for Hereford on Good Friday afternoon.
Five minute Merlin sample listing European Robin. Eurasian Wren. Common Chiff Chaff, Eurasian Blackcap, Great Tit, Ring-necked Pheasant, Eurasian Blue Tit and Coal Tit.
Screenshot from the Met Office app showing a forecast of 6 degrees and heavy rain for the next hour
Snow on railings and shrubs, probably 70-80mm now
Steel railings with 50mm of snow on them
A hill is shrouded in low cloud
Poster for academy award winning film Tom Jones, showing the titular character surrounded by fawning women
Screenshot of live chat mourning the death of camera A when the eruption spread to its location.
Kilauea volcano cam just showed cascading sparks then looked like it stopped transmitting. Screenshot shows YouTube screen with hazy clouds and red bits with buffering symbol.
Lock screen showing picture of George the boxer dog (September 2009 - December 2021) on one of his favourite chairs
Scarlet tiger moth on some grass and stuff
Where I've been in the UK
Nondescript bird on fence. Dunnock sized or slightly larger.
Entrance to Percy Thrower's garden centre in Shrewsbury, featuring a 40 foot tall garden spade
Photo of a hand written sign on a display of vacuum cleaners. The sign reads "SHARK TOOLS" in a possible tribute to cartoonist Gary Larson's Cow Tools cartoon.
Pareidolia in the bark of an old chestnut tree
Pareidolia (seeing faces) on a big old chestnut tree in Rectory Wood, Church Stretton
Screen shot of YouTube up next prompt for "Why Super Glue Is Perfect For Gluing Skin" by Veritasium
Empty porridge bowl
Assorted Lego bricks
ICL 1900 Series mainframe computer occupying an entire room. Image from Kelvin Lawrence on Pinterest
Social circle graphic from skircle.me. Very pretty and also quite odd in places.
Google street view screen grab of a barbershop and nailbar in the same shop
Twilight video of steam train passing through a station and under a bridge in a cloud of steam
Jersey Tiger Moth, West Wickham, Kent, 9/8/14 (non-US date format)
Screen shot of the stopthetories.vote tactical voting advice for the South Shropshire constituency.