Paul Duff
@airborneyellow.bsky.social
Amateur naturalist, 🚴🏽fan. Phone photos, mostly of making my garden a wildlife sanctuary - nature shouldn’t just be visited in reserves
Cycling + black ice = four broken ribs + pneumothorax and five days in hospital.
Home now.
Disturbingly, chest drain fluids not unlike my wip #kimchi
Home now.
Disturbingly, chest drain fluids not unlike my wip #kimchi
January 18, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Cycling + black ice = four broken ribs + pneumothorax and five days in hospital.
Home now.
Disturbingly, chest drain fluids not unlike my wip #kimchi
Home now.
Disturbingly, chest drain fluids not unlike my wip #kimchi
Earlier this morning:
‘Dawn from the N&N, with UAV’
‘Dawn from the N&N, with UAV’
January 11, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Earlier this morning:
‘Dawn from the N&N, with UAV’
‘Dawn from the N&N, with UAV’
After Proof of Concept experiments with different simple recipes in three batches through the last two years (all acceptable, one delicious), it’s time to pretend that I know what I’m doing with attempting full-fat pogi #kimchi🤞🏻
January 5, 2026 at 8:17 PM
After Proof of Concept experiments with different simple recipes in three batches through the last two years (all acceptable, one delicious), it’s time to pretend that I know what I’m doing with attempting full-fat pogi #kimchi🤞🏻
Decided to stay in…
January 5, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Decided to stay in…
Happy New Year, everyone, and I hope that you have much to look forward to this coming year.
Sunset from home this evening.
Sunset from home this evening.
January 1, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Happy New Year, everyone, and I hope that you have much to look forward to this coming year.
Sunset from home this evening.
Sunset from home this evening.
Chilly start to this morning ❄️
December 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Chilly start to this morning ❄️
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The exhibition all finished. There’s a bit of sadness when selling paintings, as well as the pleasure, having lived with these moffs for a while. They looked good in their vintage frames though. All in all a successful exhibition and lots of people learned more about moths!
#teammoth #sciArt
#teammoth #sciArt
November 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
On the Heath this afternoon, gorse & bell heather still soldiering-on despite the frosts & hail; and in the woods, spectacular eruptions of crimped gill
#wildflowers
#fungi
#wildflowers
#fungi
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
On the Heath this afternoon, gorse & bell heather still soldiering-on despite the frosts & hail; and in the woods, spectacular eruptions of crimped gill
#wildflowers
#fungi
#wildflowers
#fungi
Late, fresh but strangely washed-out red clover this afternoon
#wildflowers
#wildflowers
November 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Late, fresh but strangely washed-out red clover this afternoon
#wildflowers
#wildflowers
November tomorrow, but summer hasn’t quite given up in the park this morning
#wildflowers
#wildflowers
October 31, 2025 at 12:36 PM
November tomorrow, but summer hasn’t quite given up in the park this morning
#wildflowers
#wildflowers
October 29, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Where we were in October '22 with a pond suffocated by Crassula & Parrot's Feather & where we are today after 3 years' work! @themarshtit.bsky.social @ajaytegala.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social @avalanchechris.bsky.social @steffanaquarone.bsky.social @robertbohan.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Where we were in October '22 with a pond suffocated by Crassula & Parrot's Feather & where we are today after 3 years' work! @themarshtit.bsky.social @ajaytegala.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social @avalanchechris.bsky.social @steffanaquarone.bsky.social @robertbohan.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Unexpected late #ichneumon yesterday - much smaller than amblyjoppa, but uniformly black apart from white antennae bands and thorax spot
October 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Unexpected late #ichneumon yesterday - much smaller than amblyjoppa, but uniformly black apart from white antennae bands and thorax spot
Perhaps two more #greenhouse #tomato harvests after today’s from the hanging baskets and border toms - most of latter now removed to avoid blight.
Unripe green tomatoes = spicy autumn dishes!
Unripe green tomatoes = spicy autumn dishes!
October 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Perhaps two more #greenhouse #tomato harvests after today’s from the hanging baskets and border toms - most of latter now removed to avoid blight.
Unripe green tomatoes = spicy autumn dishes!
Unripe green tomatoes = spicy autumn dishes!
Artist’s bracket, sulphur tuft, velvet shank and honey fungus - latter having so far killed in my garden a victoria plum, greengage, (admittedly old) silver birch, and is busily killing a privet hedge 😠
October 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Artist’s bracket, sulphur tuft, velvet shank and honey fungus - latter having so far killed in my garden a victoria plum, greengage, (admittedly old) silver birch, and is busily killing a privet hedge 😠
After more book and online agonising, shaggy parosol, tawny funnel, the disparagingly-named and often unnoticed ugly milk cap, and what seems to be false death cap. Might be wrong!
#fungi
#fungi
October 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
After more book and online agonising, shaggy parosol, tawny funnel, the disparagingly-named and often unnoticed ugly milk cap, and what seems to be false death cap. Might be wrong!
#fungi
#fungi
Today’s only moderately ludicrous culinary project: having deliberately dessicated chestnut mushrooms in the fridge’s ‘crisper’ draw for weeks, now slicing them into an empty spice jar as a reserve when I (it happens 🙄) run out of mushrooms.
Must say, they smell great!
Must say, they smell great!
October 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Today’s only moderately ludicrous culinary project: having deliberately dessicated chestnut mushrooms in the fridge’s ‘crisper’ draw for weeks, now slicing them into an empty spice jar as a reserve when I (it happens 🙄) run out of mushrooms.
Must say, they smell great!
Must say, they smell great!