Category: Paul’s Blog
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Red Admirals
With the trees and houses around our garden we only seem to get sunshine on part of our Buddleia at a time during this time of year but when we do it can suddenly get busy with butterflies – I guess it isn’t called Butterfly Bush for nothing. During one sunny interval yesterday I managed…
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Baildon Moor 24 September 2018
Today was quite pleasant and I made use of the reasonable sunshine to go up onto Baildon Moor. There should be a few passage migrants but I think the wind was in the wrong direction for them. One of the first things I saw was a Redkite. As usual it drifted effortlessly past and a…
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Denso Marston Nature Reserve June 2018
We might well be into September now but I am still catching up with making some of my photos from earlier in the year available. These are from a walk along the river at Denso Marston Nature Reserve. One of the cute things spotted on the walk along the river were several juvenile Grey Wagtails.…
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Finningley Airshow 1972
Back in the dim and distance days of my youth I was interested in aircraft and used to bike up to a gate next to the taxiway of Binbrook aerodrome and watch English Electric Lightnings. I also went to several airshows at RAF Finningley. I think these photos are from 1972 but I am happy to…
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Jenny Lane & Tong Park Dam, Aug 2018 (Butterflies, Little Grebe & Stoat)
At the end of August 2018 I decided to have a walk around Tong Park Dam and I was very pleased with the Butterflies, Little Grebe, Stoat and Pike I saw. In the corner of the car park at the end of Jenny Lane was a small Valerian bush which had a surprising number of…
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Grimsby & District Round Table Traction Engine Rally 1963
I found this programme for the Grimsby & District Round Table Traction Engine Rally 1963 in a box of photos. It was held on Waltham Aerodrome which was just over our back garden wall. I do remember going to see traction engines when I was young but didn’t think of it as “just over the…
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Our Garden and Denso Marston Nature Reserve. Early Aug 2018
These are a few photos from our garden and a couple of walks through Denso Marston Nature Reserve and along the river. I am sure that Mint Moths have been around our garden for years but unless you stop and look you never see them. This one has different colouring to the first one I…
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Barn Owl, Baildon Moor 15 Aug
I have not been up onto Baildon Moor for a little while, partly because it has been rather hot to be out in the open. There are a few birds we hope to see on Baildon Moor at this time, some of them just passing through – Whinchat and Wheatear being 2 examples I had…