Tawny owl.

#OTD in 1971, Apollo 14 landed on the Moon. ARCHIVED NASA Astronauts Alan Shepard & Edgar Mitchell performed a moonwalk and deployed part of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, which provided new information about the Moon, its environment and interior: go.nasa.gov/382l6pk

‘It is a tortured and tormented landscape…’ WG Hoskins describing the BC in 1976. Still is.

What will I miss? The exquisite beauty of both the planet Earth and this marvel that its amazing people created.

Waxing gibbous 91.8% 54°NE. Bright Venus to the west and FAB views of the Pleiades through bins, directly overhead. 💫🪐✨

In a climate and nature emergency you don’t run a train line through ancient woods #HS2

I love when the sunlight hits the International Space Station solar arrays with this golden shimmer – even better against the multihued backdrop of sunset.

Pair of buzzards over Dudley town centre.

Just over four years ago, I walked the line of HS2 from London to Birmingham. Today I feel gutted for the people, wild species and beautiful places along its route. It was a vanity project then; and is irresistible now to a particularly vain PM. theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/n…

“John Sauven, the Greenpeace director, said it gave Johnson the “dubious honour of being this century’s largest destroyer of ancient woodlands in the UK”.” gu.com/p/d9596/stw

#ReThinkHS2 'Ancient woods are irreplaceable. We can’t replace the complex biodiversity of ancient woods which has accumulated over hundreds of years.' woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-an…

Plenty wheezing greenfinches on my walk into work earlier. Also mistle thrush, song thrush, blackbird, chaffinch, robin, and three soaring mewing buzzards.

Brilliant British birds take centre stage at Museum of Zoology, Cambridge – Museum Crush museumcrush.org/brilliant-brit…

Back over the Viaduct at Stourbridge towards the Junction. This was a privately commissioned trip as part of Pre Metro Operations' proposals to run an Ultra Light Rail service from Stourbridge Junction to Canal Street, Brierley Hill (to link in with West Midlands Metro).

'Hop picking' (early 20thc) by British artist Laura Knight #womensart

Research: back to the gibbet of William Howe.

Blackbird singing from the birch below my kitchen window. 🌱

Watched the buzzards rise from their roost in the old crack willow.

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