Category: Paul’s Blog
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Lapwing chick and a Snipe
I think the bottom corner (top corner??) of Baildon Moor near Glovershaw is a great place to keep visiting. Meadow Pipit, Curlew, Lapwing, Skylark, Wheatear and now Snipe and Lapwing chicks.
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What price security?
Apparently there are a number of brute force attacks going on for WordPress and Joomla websites. A friend’s site had an error.php file containing 62000 lines of invalid login attempts. The 2 WordPress sites I host (this one and Friends of Baildon Moor) were hacked. I posted before about belatedly “upgrading” the passwords used on…
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Frog on a skateboard and other steely features
I have now found out what the Octopus and the Dog in a Dinghy are doing there. It is the Aire Sculpture Trail. Wycliffe School and Mick Kirkby-Geddes have created a set of 15 sculptures (+ 1 other little one?) that are to form the trail that will be officially unveiled at the end of…
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A Dog in a Dinghy!!
Having posted photos of the Octopus a couple of times I have now been past the thing on Baildon Bridge and it turns out to be a Dog in a Dinghy.
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The Octopus and the Iron
You might have already seen my posting about the Octopus at Saltaire here. It is strange enough to see a green octopus on the bridge but why would a steam iron turn up?
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Green Hairstreak Butterfly
Today I joined 5 other people up on Baildon Moor to look for the Green Hair Streak butterfly. The search was organised by Bradford Urban Wildlife group in conjunction with Friends of Baildon Moor as part of the Save Our Butterflies Week. It was conducted by Susan Stead. It was quite cold and wet after…
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Late afternoon from the canal bridge
Late afternoon sunlight on the canal often looks great and it is even better to see the Geese, Goslings and people enjoying it.
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Octopuses, Octopi, or Octopodes
Take your pick, what do you want to call them? I drove past Baildon Bridge last night and saw a yellow thing on the end of the wall that I was sure I had “miss-seen”. I mean, why would a yellow octopus be on the wall of the bridge over the River Aire? But then…
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Passwords and annoying hackers
I have just been through my various passwords and tightened them all up. I have also removed “admin” accounts from my sites. Something that was long overdue and was annoyingly exploited by a hacker. Doing this tidying up did not take long, it took me a bit longer to find out what had been done…