Phil
@philfarndon.bsky.social
Looking for wildlife in Norfolk and anywhere else I happen to be.
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No wind here in Worcester this morning but we've replicated it best we can by wobbling the tripod without and then with IS. A little extreme but you get the idea, especially if you watch the right side of the frame remaining parallel to chimney stack in IS mode.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0z...
Swarovski AT Balance mounted on tripod in windy conditions without and with IS engaged.
YouTube video by The Birder's Store
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November 29, 2025 at 11:12 AM
No wind here in Worcester this morning but we've replicated it best we can by wobbling the tripod without and then with IS. A little extreme but you get the idea, especially if you watch the right side of the frame remaining parallel to chimney stack in IS mode.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0z...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl0z...
Tiny (~2mm) wingless ichneumonid wasp wandering around in the kitchen this evening. Possibly a Gelis species?
@norfolknats.bsky.social
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October 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Tiny (~2mm) wingless ichneumonid wasp wandering around in the kitchen this evening. Possibly a Gelis species?
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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“I am become Death, the destroyer of worms.”
Smooth newt with eyes bigger than its belly in the garden.
Smooth newt with eyes bigger than its belly in the garden.
October 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
“I am become Death, the destroyer of worms.”
Smooth newt with eyes bigger than its belly in the garden.
Smooth newt with eyes bigger than its belly in the garden.
Sunrise on a misty autumn morning. Golden plover calling overhead and a badger casually crossing the road in front of me.
September 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Sunrise on a misty autumn morning. Golden plover calling overhead and a badger casually crossing the road in front of me.
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Electrification is vastly more efficient than combustion technologies:
🚘 An electric car uses about 75% less final energy than an ICE car.
🔥 A heat pump delivers about 4x more heat for the same energy input.
Note: Of course the exact efficiency and saving will differ between models and context.
🚘 An electric car uses about 75% less final energy than an ICE car.
🔥 A heat pump delivers about 4x more heat for the same energy input.
Note: Of course the exact efficiency and saving will differ between models and context.
September 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Electrification is vastly more efficient than combustion technologies:
🚘 An electric car uses about 75% less final energy than an ICE car.
🔥 A heat pump delivers about 4x more heat for the same energy input.
Note: Of course the exact efficiency and saving will differ between models and context.
🚘 An electric car uses about 75% less final energy than an ICE car.
🔥 A heat pump delivers about 4x more heat for the same energy input.
Note: Of course the exact efficiency and saving will differ between models and context.
Smooth newt retraining as a gecko on the back door window. Impressive!
August 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Smooth newt retraining as a gecko on the back door window. Impressive!
The reality of owning an electric vehicle?
You can have a large family car with the performance of a hot hatch and the running costs of a moped.
8 years in and we have saved thousands of pounds on fuel and never had a breakdown. The current onslaught of poorly researched journalism is baffling.
You can have a large family car with the performance of a hot hatch and the running costs of a moped.
8 years in and we have saved thousands of pounds on fuel and never had a breakdown. The current onslaught of poorly researched journalism is baffling.
Given widespread UK misreporting on EVs it's worth noting…
* New EVs only cost ~14% more than petrol
* New EVs to reach "price parity" by 2026-28
* 2nd hand EVs already cheaper
* EV drivers can save £1,000/year on fuel
* The vast majority of EV drivers save money overall
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* New EVs only cost ~14% more than petrol
* New EVs to reach "price parity" by 2026-28
* 2nd hand EVs already cheaper
* EV drivers can save £1,000/year on fuel
* The vast majority of EV drivers save money overall
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July 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The reality of owning an electric vehicle?
You can have a large family car with the performance of a hot hatch and the running costs of a moped.
8 years in and we have saved thousands of pounds on fuel and never had a breakdown. The current onslaught of poorly researched journalism is baffling.
You can have a large family car with the performance of a hot hatch and the running costs of a moped.
8 years in and we have saved thousands of pounds on fuel and never had a breakdown. The current onslaught of poorly researched journalism is baffling.
Purple hairstreak posing on a rose brings the garden butterfly list up to 22 species. Any new additions now will have to be something pretty unusual!
July 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Purple hairstreak posing on a rose brings the garden butterfly list up to 22 species. Any new additions now will have to be something pretty unusual!
This fly hanging around the knapweed in the garden finally sat still for long enough to get a photo. I think it’s Acanthiophilus helianthi or knapweed ghost. @norfolknats.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This fly hanging around the knapweed in the garden finally sat still for long enough to get a photo. I think it’s Acanthiophilus helianthi or knapweed ghost. @norfolknats.bsky.social
Quick video of a quail going “quickquickquick” quickly. Nice addition to the patch list.
July 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Quick video of a quail going “quickquickquick” quickly. Nice addition to the patch list.
Nice hopper on the garden gate. Probably the more common Issus coleoptratus but I don’t know enough to rule out Issus muscaeformis. Unfortunately didn’t manage to get a better head-on photo. @norfolknats.bsky.social @britishbugs.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Nice hopper on the garden gate. Probably the more common Issus coleoptratus but I don’t know enough to rule out Issus muscaeformis. Unfortunately didn’t manage to get a better head-on photo. @norfolknats.bsky.social @britishbugs.bsky.social
Adder shedding its skin to reveal a sharp new outfit underneath. Never witnessed this before! @norfolknats.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Adder shedding its skin to reveal a sharp new outfit underneath. Never witnessed this before! @norfolknats.bsky.social
Vocal ravens on the local patch recently. Looks like someone has been taking potshots at this one.
March 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Vocal ravens on the local patch recently. Looks like someone has been taking potshots at this one.
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Looking for bats certainly takes us to interesting places. Good counts of Daubenton's and Natterer's in hibernation sites underneath Norfolk today.
February 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Looking for bats certainly takes us to interesting places. Good counts of Daubenton's and Natterer's in hibernation sites underneath Norfolk today.
Brown long-eared bat hibernating in the classic pose with ears tucked under wings. Nice to see boxes being used, in this case a Schwegler 1WQ bat box. @norfolknorwichbats.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Brown long-eared bat hibernating in the classic pose with ears tucked under wings. Nice to see boxes being used, in this case a Schwegler 1WQ bat box. @norfolknorwichbats.bsky.social
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Reconstruction of a scene at Happisburgh about 900,000 years ago. (Copyright AHOB/John Sibbick.)
January 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Reconstruction of a scene at Happisburgh about 900,000 years ago. (Copyright AHOB/John Sibbick.)
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January is the month for National Bat Monitoring Programme hibernation checks. Our bat group members are busy counting across Norfolk. The recent cold weather seems to have brought the bats inside. @batconservation.bsky.social @philfarndon.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
January is the month for National Bat Monitoring Programme hibernation checks. Our bat group members are busy counting across Norfolk. The recent cold weather seems to have brought the bats inside. @batconservation.bsky.social @philfarndon.bsky.social
Winter? What winter?
December 21, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Winter? What winter?
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Don't forget to join us tomorrow evening for the first of our Winter talks from Norfolk River Trust.
December 3, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Don't forget to join us tomorrow evening for the first of our Winter talks from Norfolk River Trust.
