A beautiful male Bearded Tit flying through the reeds! 😍 Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊 Have you ever seen a Bearded Tit? 🐦

On the March for Clean Water and meeting legends like Aneeshwar Kunchala BCyA Chris Packham Benjamin Fallow and #MentalHealthSwims #MarchForCleanWater

Build update! We've finished thatching our late Neolithic roundhouse and have moved on to the walls. We normally don't know much about walling materials, especially from this long ago, but incredibly some of the wall from the original structure actually survived. ⬇️

WOW, this is the earliest known group of chess pieces in the world! 🤩 Dated AD 700s, they were excavated at Afrasiab in Samarkand (present day Uzbekistan). Made up of two foot soldiers, two mounted riders, an elephant with rider, a figure driving two horses and another driving

Swooping female Chaffinch! 😀 Taken last weekend at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊🐦

A rare and wonderful survival from Viking-age York! A delicate silk cap made of plain-woven, undyed silk, c. AD 900. An exotic material in 10th-century Britain, the silk was imported to York from Persia via a vast network of Viking trade routes. Yorkshire Museum 📷 by me

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Tiny Goldcrest looking over its shoulder preening its tail! 😍😁 Taken last weekend at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊 It's Friday.... please do what you do! 😉🙏🐦♥️

Et Tu Brute?

Little Egret on the River Huntspill in Somerset recently... looks a little grumpy! 😁😍🐦

Kestrel attacking a Barn Owl, a daily event here in North Norfolk.

The display of the male Teal! 😍 It's all over in less than 2 seconds, so I've slowed it down for you. 😁🦆

One’s Parterre is officially weeded…🧐

Oooo, now I want one

I am pleased to announce my Butt Lift Operation was a complete success. The stand and tap are now at the correct height.

I love the South West

Great shot from Sacha Lecca at Sony Hall in NYC the other night! Sacha Lecca Sony Hall

When you see a Great White Egret from underneath you can clearly see that they're descended from dinosaurs! 😮😁🐦

The amazingly funny and ahead of his time Tom Lehrer - a last reminder of my parents’ vinyl comedy collection - has gone. RIP