@saloplarus

Dad ~ Husband ~ Guller ~ Gooser ~ Birdfinder ~ Ecologist ~ Aurora-hunter ~ Skygazer ~ Optimist

 Shropshire, occasionally
Joined November 2013
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Well that all got a bit silly didn't it! When the biggest #aurora for decades hits at nightfall with a tiny Moon and a clearing Shropshire sky, what else do you do but drag the kids out of bed and stand in a field oohing?! 😍💚🧡❤️ #stormhour
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Tonight's Lincolnshire sunset 🌅
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Autumn colour and the snowy Shropshire Hills from the drive this morning. Thrushes, Starlings and Skylarks starting to feel it ❄️ @ShropshireWX #loveukweather
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#Snow on @nationaltrust’s #Longmynd, #ChurchStretton, #Shropshire today. Absolutely beautiful. @ThePhotoHour
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Winter arrived early at #salopobs ❄️ #uksnow #stormhour #loveukweather @ShropshireWX
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At 1605, 5 Blackbirds spiralled up out of gardens on the western fringe of Grimsby and headed off high west. Then another 8, then 11... By 1640 I'd counted 💥328💥😍 #blackmagic 🖤 #vismig #timelesswonder
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Another week, another kink. One of four Whoopers north over a Grimsby suburb this morning #whoops
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Brief splurge of moonlit #aurora from the back garden just now 😍 @ShropshireWX @TamithaSkov
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New roost for the books on the edge of Beverley @KaneBrides! As this is the @WeBS_UK #GSMP_UK weekend, is it being included or could @wildlifegeekpix maybe get the numbers to you?
Darren (George) Best - also on Bluesky@wildlifegeekpix10 Nov 2024
So managed to catch up with the two presumed Humber non-feral Snow Geese as they were on my #swinemoor patch this morning, together with an ever increasing Pinkfeet flock, now around 15000 birds or more. @RareBirdAlertUK @BirdGuides #patchbirding
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It was good of the #salopobs #nocmig recorder to catch a Hawfinch for me this morning as I snoozed in bed 😴👂 #loveautumn
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1cy #CaspianGull and 1cy YLG in the 75-large-gull Priorslee pre-roost on the way home this evening 🤩
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With hundreds of scoter and Eider miles out in Gosford Bay, it was good of the White-winged Scoter to be in one of the closer groups this pm. Also 1 drake Surfer, 3 RNGs & 30+ Slavs but no Stejneger's, sadly @birdinglothian @RareBirdAlertUK
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Nice to see some sunshine today. And this belter #henharrier #workworkwork
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Halesowen W.Mids 5/11 Found this stunning Hawfinch secondary feather today, taken as prey by Halesowen #Peregrines!! #HawfinchIrruption #PeregrineKills #FeatherID #WestMidsBirding @HawfinchesUK
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Surveys by @CardiffOTT for @MARINElife_UK on @PelticSurveys provide more proof that thousands of Woodpigeons cross the Channel in Autumn: England to France. Many flocks visible on radar, all south, at 30mph speed, with 1.6k seen 15m N Alderney 31/10 & 10-20k 20m SW Guernsey 26/10
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Portrait day for last night's moths. The late autumn clientèle really are fab #mothsmatter #teammoth
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The Shropshire skies were busy with migrants last night, not only tiny ones from a long way south, but a #salopobs #nocmig record 260 Redwing calls and a flock of Pinks (which brought the yearlist to 124) ebird.org/checklist/S2013134…
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#Autumn colour on @nationaltrust’s #Longmynd, #ChurchStretton, #Shropshire today. #Photography @ThePhotoHour
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Garden mega Palpita vitrealis 💥 at #salopobs this morning, above an upstairs window so phonescoped! Also Pearly Underwing, Rusty-dot Pearl and Angle Shades among 32/16 #mothsmatter @MigrantMothUK
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Two Mervs and a Rusty-dot Pearl on the wall by the #mothtrap currently... 😍 #mothsmatter @MigrantMothUK
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Came home from trick-or-treating with the kids, and a Barn Owl screamed from the branches! 🦉👻😱
Tom Lowe@saloplarus31 Oct 2024
Halloween sunset with that tree of mine 🎃 @ShropshireWX #sunset #halloween #stormhour #loveukweather
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