Wonderful Green Man at Eyton-Under-Heywood church. Thanks to @g0blinegg.bsky.social for writing about it a while ago, we finally got round to visiting yesterday.
Steve Varga
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Likes music, nature, photography, folklore and lots of other stuff. Shropshire.
Swallows are nesting in nearly every room at Stokesay Castle. I only had my Sony compact with me so shot what I could.
Shrewsbury folk, there's a far right march tomorrow starting in the Quarry at 11.00 & going to the Guildhall. I saw a couple of balaclava'd idiots putting up flags on the lampposts along St Chad's Terr. There's also a Stand Up to Racism rally in the Square, not sure of timing. Take care out there.
Portrait of a puffin from last week's trip to the Farne Islands.
Bizarre moment Reform Councillor Kieran Lay, Thorne and Moorends Ward, asks Full Council for measures to monitor UFO activity as part of reopening Doncaster Sheffield Airport 🛸
🚨 NEW DISCHARGE NEAR River Severn in Shrewsbury 💩 Severn Trent Water has started discharging raw sewage 0.41mi from this bathing water 📋 This bathing water was rated Poor by the EA ⏰ This discharge started at 11:21 🔗 https://sewagedata.co.uk/?asset=SVT01837
#WonderfulBirdWednesday Right in the middle of rain, the photo was captured the split second a droplet of water landed on the #Robins head like a crown! 👑 04/2026 #Birds #Nature #FlawlessTiming 🌟 #FMSPAD #SomethingThatFlies #Birdsky #Wildlife #Photography #BirdPhotography #Macrophotography
I was spotted by a woodpecker in the garden this afternoon...
A little bit of Folk Horror in South Shropshire this afternoon.
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A visit to Wistman's Wood on Dartmoor this week. One of the few remaining remnants of temperate rainforest in the UK. Local legends of spectral hounds are believed to have been the inspiration for Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles
If you can’t comment on a foreign billionaire calling for your government to be brought down, what is the point of you?
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 11mo agoObserver: 10 refused to comment on the Robinson march, on Musk's call to bring down the government (OK) or for his "fight back or die" declaration that violence is inevitable and necessary (not OK) The home secretary criticised those arrested for violence.
A fun afternoon at the Battle of Shrewsbury reconstruction. Harry Hotspur lost again...
A pair of Silver Studded Blues creating a new generation at Prees Heath today.
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