Category: Paul’s Blog
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Ingress Uniques in Knaresborough
I need a T shirt saying that I am nor playing Pokemon Go. This month I need to visit 300 portals that I have never visited before and today I decided to go to Knaresborough, a town I have never been to to play Ingress. As usual I took my camera and, as usual you…
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A Quick Trip to Skipton
Here’s a few photos from today’s visit to Skipton to finish off the Skipton Banner Missions in Ingress. There’s a few of these around waiting to steal chips from anyone not quick enough to get them to their mouths. Sometimes the roof-line follows the ground sometimes the roof-line is horizontal and you get lots of…
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Kestrel Chicks Spring 2016
Yet again we have had Kestrels nesting at Salts Mill so I have spent a bit of time there with my camera on a tripod waiting for activity. Here are some of the photos I took between June 27 and July 5. The young ones are now flying about the roof tops. It sounds as…
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A couple of hours at Rodley Nature Reserve
I had a quick trip to Rodley Nature Reserve today and a few birds were kind enough to show themselves. Robins are noisy little things and often keep still even though quite close. I saw only 2 Oystercatchers. I often see Oystercatchers at Saltaire too. There seems to have been a pair nesting at the…
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Sunday round Follifoot
This Sunday I had a trip round Pannal, Spofforth, Follifoot, North Deighton, Beckwithshaw for Ingress and had my camera with me. When driving along Haggs Road I saw what looked like a couple of Red Kite mobbing each other. I pulled over as soon as I could but they had drifted off into the distance…
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Taking my camera on an Ingress Mission round Yeadon Tarn
This is the 2nd of the 2 posts I am making this weekend. This one is from a walk round Yeadon Tarn doing the Tarnfield Dam. If I limited it to just the mission it would probably take 20 minutes. It is not just Ingress that slows a walk down, having a camera can seriously…
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A Couple of Local Ingress Trips
This is the first of two postings this weekend. These photos are from an Ingress trip to Leeds. I was a little surprised at the number of unique captures I got in the game with this recent walk along part of the Leeds Liverpool Canal at Leeds. I have been around these parts a couple…
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Aaron Kearney’s UNight16 and our trip to the Strange Monument
It is now a year since Aaron Kearney’s Unight16 plan covered the UK in blue blankets for 250 million mind units. A lovely sight. This has prompted a few people to remember Aaron in various posts so it might be appropriate to post photos of some time I spent with Aaron. I owe my biggest…