The 2024 meteorological summer looks to have been the coolest since 2015. Based on TWO data for August (which is likely slightly different to the official UK Met data) the summer was 0.23C cooler than the 1991-2020 average, but above the other 30 year series.

Rarely get Swallows on the roof here. Group of presumably migrating birds dropping in for a chat.

Welcome to this World little Storm-petrel. If you live to be one of the oldest of Stormies (33 yrs), I'll be over 60 when you're still fluttering over the wildest oceans on the planet. I really hope we can clean up this planetary mess for you in the meantime... #StubbornOptimism

A pair of Great Egrets has successfully nested in Scotland for the first time, marking the most northerly breeding record of the species in Britain: bit.ly/47dtyla

Local Swifts seem to have finally gone and can’t say I blame them. Enjoy the sunshine, see you next year screamers.

Just wonder how many folk realise they’ll no longer be able to travel to Europe under the new ETIAS system! Even worse when they realise they actually voted for it. 🙄

What could possibly go wrong….

Think you’ve had a bad day at work….at least you didn’t crash Kim Jong in to a tree branch.

Well I managed to get yet another trial subscription to Apple TV long enough to catch the new series of Slow Horses. Win.

This is just beyond insane. A tropical wave is dumping serious rainfall on Mali, a desert country in North Africa. In the coming days, its path will travel across northern Mauritania and curve into western and northern Algeria. The Sahara Desert is experiencing some historic rain

The sky went this really strange colour today. Anyone explain?

Sorry folks up on the coast…..haaar haaar. 😉

Big influx of these beauties today. Presume off the continent.

Today I’ve been mainly lying in a hammock under an apple tree in glorious sunshine listening to the radio and watching butterflies. I need days like this, we all do…..

A bird I have wanted to photograph for a very long time. A nutcracker flying through the forest carrying a hazelnut to cache.

Forgotten places !

Pink-footed Goose - 14 over Tarbat Ness heading south into the Dornoch Firth. #highlandbirds Trektellen.org John Poyner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🦌🌲🇺🇦

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