blakejules.bsky.social
@blakejules.bsky.social
Nature lover, especially interested in birds and moths and like to walk. Also avid reader of fiction and nonfiction and spend time online and off with The Reader. Dabble in drawing, photography and music of all kinds.....play the piano most days.
Lovely day at Durlston Country park. Beautiful flower meadows and butterflies above the cliffs, then a wall lizard on castle walls. Where else?
The view from my window in Dorset. Mothing with Mavis!
Our #ArtExhibition opens today for a week at The Setting Gallery at Three Storeys in #Nailsworth 🔴 🔴 I’ll post pics of some of the exhibits later & if anyone is interested in buying prints of anything, please DM me for details or even better, come along and visit! #WildlifeArt #TeamMoth #TreeStories
A wonderful trip to Manchester museum today with my friend Carol. We mainly went to see the moths but enjoyed the vivarium and animals and birds too. Great place to visit!
A beautiful Sallow Kitten in my yard for a couple of days. My Urban oasis!
Beautiful Hooktip and a Sycamore.......thats a bit of a treasure trove for me so close to the city.
A trip to Lyn Brenig. I spent a bit of time looking for Emperor moths and adders but no luck, lovely to hear the skylarks on my walk though. A visit to the Osprey lookout point was more successful, saw them both, in the air and on the nest. They also have Willow tit there which I saw and a Merlin.
This week brought this little fellow looking ever so vulnerable on the ground. S/he wasn't there the following day so fingers crossed s/he is thriving somewhere in the trees.
A trip to London for the weekend. My daughter found this in the toilets at the pub........missing my trap which is broken so it was good to get this Early Grey, and away from home.
our local park, teaming with frogs on Friday!
My last night mothing in Bucks produced this Pale Brindled Beauty, new moth for me.
March moth and Hebrew Character in Bucks. Brimstone butterflies all over the garden currently and some courting ravens overhead as well as the Red Kites. I think I've died and gone to heaven!!
Twin-spot quaker used to be common here in south VC59 but now quite unusual. March moth, Hebrew Character, small and common quaker made up the rest. #mothsmatter #blakejules #teammoth
Muted colours for the Brindles. Brindled Beauty being the only one I’ve seen.. Brindled Small brindled Melanistic (bit of a cop out) pale brindled
No moths yet but this lovely hawthorn shield bug under the lock for the toilets at my allotment. Lovely surprise.
A few years ago I used to see the Six-spot burnet regularly and the Forester I’ve only seen once, but a real beauty I’ve never forgotten. So this summer I’ll be Zygaenid hunting on the local common where they like to hang out. #MothMonday #teammoth
Generative artifical so-called intelligence: plagiarism on a giant scale www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album
Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission
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Mandarin duck still in the same spot in Sefton Park yesterday as it has been all week.
In Merseyside, a landslide takes the vegetation with it, while @jensoilandpen.bsky.social searches for any survivors, in @theguardian.com country diary today. #countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: The earth moved – taking everything with it | Jennifer Jones
Oglet, Merseyside: A landslide here has left roots exposed and strangers on the shore. This is a test of plant tenacity
theguardian.com
#WomensHistory #WomeninPolitics
Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · 2y agoHappy birthday to Queen Seondeok of Silla (c. 595 ~ 610 - 647), 27th ruler of one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, from 632-647, who brought about a renaissance in culture & science and built the Cheomseongdae moon & star-gazing observatory. 🐡🧪👩🏻🔬🔭#histsci Known for her intelligence, wisdom & 🧵
A favourite hawk moth for #mothmonday because I’ve got a bad back and unable to finish any paintings at the moment, including this one. So I’m a bit miserable 😞 trying to cheer myself up and desperate for some spring warmth. #teammoth #mothsmatter
Vital reading for the government with its current obsession with growth at all costs (growth of what and for whom is never spelt out). A commitment to restore nature was conspicuous by its absence from PM’s Plan for Change, launched last month - that urgently needs to change 👇
Window to stop decline of England’s nature closing fast, watchdog says
Office for Environmental Protection calls for urgent action after finding government is falling short on most targets
theguardian.com
These large moths are actually made of gauzy white cotton, wire and floof! Puss Moth - Cerura vinula ☑️ #teammoth
Pleased to for the second time support this important, practical bill @humanists.uk humanists.uk/2025/02/07/l...
Lords support bill to replace collective worship with inclusive assemblies
A Bill to replace mandatory daily Christian collective worship in schools in England without a religious character with inclusive assemblies has passed its second reading today in the House of Lords. ...
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