Lovely to see so many familiar birds for a change. Out of interest, did you have a favourite from your trip (photographed or not)?
Personally, my favourite British bird is the Jay:
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They’re such beautiful and intelligent birds.
Soure
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We are lucky to have a pair that visit our garden from time to time.
Richard
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Ah! Not jealous at all, Richard! 
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Yes, them and the Red Kites that soar nearby.
Just enough to make this world bearable. When the Kites call it is almost like a pleading from nature.
Richard
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Probably the Reed Warblers, as something that is usually difficult to see, but cooperated quite nicely for us.
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A caterpillar “false unicorn moth” on an American Witch Hazel shrub doing a great job at mimicry of an old leaf.
You can also see my path in the dew lol.
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Huh, that green patch on it is interesting!
(Did you plant the pink marker flag to help you find your way back? ; - )
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I think you mean chemtrails… 
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And I’m an antivax COVID denier.
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I was in my garden and noticed a fluttering down the way, and noticed this butterfly in the grasp of a dragonfly. The dragonfly prevailed. Nature is beautiful but merciless.
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Mortality isn’t a mistake; it is part of a path that makes growth and improvement possible. Becoming needs to be eternal, being can afford to be mortal. Pretty good plan.
Made a tofu burger topped with cherry tomatoes and avocado. Some sweet potato fries seasoned with nutritional yeast and sage. Some sliced red beets cooked in liquid smoke and red wine. Pretty strong flavors with this meal but they go well.
It was actually hard to find the beets. I went to three stores before finding some.
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Forty years ago here we could watch more than a dozen species of birds out the kitchen window, but now it’s rare to see many native birds at all: their numbers have been steadily decreasing as starlings have flourished.
And out at the dunes where I do conservation work the number of bird species keeps dropping as habitat is taken over by invasive species, primarily scotch broom.
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Playing with a new lens…
Table salt:
Fruit fly larva on a cherry tomato:
Gratuitous beauty or not? You be the judge.
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Absolutely, there is no need for a fruit fly larva to be that beautiful. Magnificent! 
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The new images from the James Web Telescope are incredible and what they seem to suggest is equally mindblowing! 
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