Happy October

 

Marked the start of the month with some filthy pre-work twitching of a gorgeous Black-winged Stilt on Exminster Marsh.

The Goddess of Birding rewarded my dedication with a surprise Pectoral Sandpiper; doubly surprising in that it even showed a couple of times.!!

 

 

Google still suck harder than a double-vortex vacuum cleaner.

 

 

Another wandering wader has turned up, but will I get to it, too?

 

We shall have to see.

 

 

 

Be Seeing You...

'Don't be evil'?  'Don't be greedy'.

Just Keeping The Dust Off

Gaggle still glow boats.

In other news, I'm under the weather.

In other other news, I went and saw a nice Long-billed Dowitcher and went and didn't see some nice Ruddy Shelduck.

I've also done skywatching and sunny day seawatching [this is what Great Big Scopes are for] and had a lovely day on t'Moor with t'Folks.

One day you might see some of this.

Be Seeing You..?

.........

::Kicks can down street::

::Whistles::

Google still suck.

Laters.

::Whistles nonchalantly::

Still waiting.

I've been seawatching when I can and horribly missing that fracking heron when I can't.

This included after work yesterday, when a reluctantly-enforced 'just one hour' at the Nose saw 625 Manxies, 2 Balearics, 10 assorted skuas, and various others coming by.. 😁 and indeed foraging not far to the NE

4 Common and 4 Green Sand, plus 2 LRP and 12+ Snipe were on Exminster and a Hobby overhead during my latest failure to photo that heron. 3 juv Knot and a Whimbrel were where the Little Stint and Curlew Sand weren't at DW the day before. Though a glorious BTD was increasingly close offshore and the Wasp Spiders were wonderful [Cheers Lee!]

Week earlier I got down to Prawle for two wonderful hours of big shears and storm petrels followed by four hours of fog [it was clear as close as Slapton.... 😕] and another watch at the Nose was a matter of fog coming and going and coming and going and comi-  yeah.

Also, Here there have been bats. Mostly Common Pipistrelle.

 

Perseids were almost as disappointing as the latest aurora [I saw, but I wasn't impressed]

And google still suck.

Be Seeing You...

Still Twiddling Virtual Thumbs

Well, recently I have been trying to get a photo of a Purple Heron, in order to add at least a vague hint of credibility [or at least reduce the deniability] of my Devon Yearlist. 

I have failed repeatedly, but that's hardly a shock. Even seeing one of those reed-lurkers is more Favour of the Goddess than anything else.

 

Getting photos of birds generally is rarely easy - or possible; for example at a workplace where Camera = The Sack - but it is nice to try, if only to give you something else to look at than my ravings.

Thus my vexation at google, demanding access to my system to upload anything. They don't need it, they're just in a paddy because I have a browser set to 'Feck off and be happy with the money you already make off of me'.

I am putting a few pictures up Over There, but Elon's happy land of Utter Freedom To Do Anything...ANYTHIIIIING!  isn't exactly the place to blog.

And my lovely [no really, I've got some good ones] moth pics have gone down like the proverbial base metal dirigible. .

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Which is just... What?!? I mean, how much effort is a Like? One little click. What does it cost you? NOTHING. Less than a calory of effort, and no effect on the algorithm [not that you should care if you annoy mr m] that controls your feed IF you let it...

Argh.

But it's a fee world, so hey. It's not like I do it for Likes. They're just an addictive form of self-validation....

 

 

😩

But at least the heat's finally broken.

Bright side, eh?

Be Seeing You...

G**gle Still Suck

Still here.

Still unable to upload images.

Still waiting.

Odds, ends, and something approaching what I'm getting up to may be found here;

https://twitter.com/BackwardBirder

Unusually for twitter, I'm hardly ranty at all.

Yet.

[It's saying something about the state of the world that mr. e is more reasonable than the gaggle of fools who run this place...]

[[Though it has to be pointed out that he only lets people who've signed up {though all you need that's real* is an email, btw ;) } see anything, at least he lets you put photos up without demanding access to your system!!]]

[[* I am of course certainly not advocating or even suggesting entering false details to protect your privacy and/or screw with anyone's algorithms. Definitely not. ]]

Come On...

Prior comments on goggle's rationality were overstated.

😞

Backward Birding is again on hiatus.

😠

[Hey, idiots, you're making Musk look reasonable...]