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AlexBrightsmith
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Serving the gods of true & fair presentation dutifully by day. Writing beautiful untruths by night.
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We are recruiting. If you want to find rare birds and witness spectacular falls & live among 30,000 Manx Shearwaters get your application in for the Bardsey Island Assistant job (Mar-Oct 2026) before 10 Dec.

Apply here: tinyurl.com/2026-Assista...

#RareBirdAlert #BardseyIsland #ConservationJob
November 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Accidentally arrived at Asda five minutes before the doors open. There is a sparse little crowd. My we are *glum*.
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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If you want a digital image of a pet or person in time for Xmas - hmu!
November 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The weather outside is tragic
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 AM
With scientific hidden partition? Really? This is why I hate shopping.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
FB, usually as scatter-brained as I am, has been trying to sell me support socks with single minded devotion for almost a fortnight.
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Was at a family thing & was glommed onto by a 10yo with a camera (literally tied to his wrist for safekeeping) who wanted someone to pose for him by this pond / needed to gull an adult into supervising him so that he could go closer to it.
Glad I fell for it since it made a lovely #SundayPixMirror
November 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Wellington also loves books. She may think she's safe from Campion up there.

(Aptly enough for #SundayPixBooks, Campion's litter mates are Wimsey and Maigret.)
November 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
It's funny how sometimes you set everything up right with your 'real' camera and get something meh, and sometimes you snap a quick phone pic rather than type up a list and the light just loves you
#SundayPixBooks
November 2, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Campion still lubs Wellington. Everyone else is still mystified (especially Wellington).
November 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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If anyone has good photographs of European goldfinches that they're happy for me to use as painting references, I'd be so grateful. Thank you. 💛

Please share among birders, if you would! 🙏🪶
October 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Happy Birthday Wombat

#SundayPixWombat
#Glint
October 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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To give @wombat37.bsky.social a day off and as a thank you for all the years of #SundayPix we have had, share your pictures of him or anything that reminds you of him using the hashtags

#SundayPixWombie
#SundayPixWombat
#SundayPixWombat37

PLEASE RT FAR AND WIDE!

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October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Shielding Chart

xkcd.com/3158/
October 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Planning permission has been granted for the first broch in 2000 years to be constructed in the Highlands
First Iron Age broch 'in 2000 years' approved for Highlands
www.thenational.scot
October 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Technically Monday, but since I'm in denial about that, some #SundayPixLeaves
October 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
As long as the mention is of happy healthy great northern divers living their best lives, obvs
October 5, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Sharing partly because Bardsey Obs is a beautiful place that does good work, but mainly because, thanks to Arthur Ransome, any mention of a great northern diver makes me smile, however tired and ohhelltonorrowismonday-ish I may be feeling.
Today’s sea passage.
0700-1100
Long-tailed Skua: 1 imm
Sabine’s Gull: 4 (1ad)
Leach’s Storm-petrel: 2
Grey Phalarope: 2
Little Gull: 1
Great Skua : 3
Arctic Skua: 9
Great Northern Diver: 2
Pale-bellied Brent Goose: 1
Yellow-legged Gull: 1
October 5, 2025 at 11:12 PM
And, apparently on this day eight years ago, taking some roses to drop off at Granny's grave, in passing. They were not roses that travelled well, but they just about made it.
#SundayPixRailway
September 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I forgot to post this for infrastructure a couple of weeks back, so it can be #SundayPixRailway even though Galton Bridge station is the least interesting part of it.
September 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
I was thinking I hadn't been near a #SundayPixRailway in ages, but then, there's this (though only the track's dedication to maintaining a steady elevation in the face of local conditions makes this obvious - it's slightly sinuous and surprisingly narrow)
September 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Vaguely wondering how Tanner, big sprawly boy though he is, was managing to take up so much space ...
September 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I would absolutely agree with this except that I looked it up on YouTube a while back and ... well what can I say? I was eight.
Manimal deserved a second series. I know it was cancelled over 40 years ago but I still resent it every time I turn on the TV.
September 20, 2025 at 10:37 AM
From the Oratory to Bishop Asbury's Cottage via my employer's AGM. That was quite a day. The cottage was closed, mind, because the 45 minute bus trip somehow took an hour longer than scheduled.
September 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM