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
Not so different here. Scribbled A4 notes while working through egg cartons (or from photos later when tricky), CAPS = increasingly rare NFGs, ticks to left denoting recorded on County website 🤓
@norfolkmoths.bsky.social
@norfolkmoths.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Not so different here. Scribbled A4 notes while working through egg cartons (or from photos later when tricky), CAPS = increasingly rare NFGs, ticks to left denoting recorded on County website 🤓
@norfolkmoths.bsky.social
@norfolkmoths.bsky.social
Commiserations. I get attached to objects that have meant a lot to me over the years - eg bikes that carried me for thousands of kms - and my now ancient 18th birthday Zeiss 10x50s, still going after years of birding and capped by milk carton tops in my kitchen ready for instant garden deployment 🤓
November 21, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Commiserations. I get attached to objects that have meant a lot to me over the years - eg bikes that carried me for thousands of kms - and my now ancient 18th birthday Zeiss 10x50s, still going after years of birding and capped by milk carton tops in my kitchen ready for instant garden deployment 🤓
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
Yes indeed. Lots of active ones, but some years ago my daughter-i-law found several upturned dead females outside their back door. No idea why
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Yes indeed. Lots of active ones, but some years ago my daughter-i-law found several upturned dead females outside their back door. No idea why
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
Excellent displacement activity, Dave 👍🏻.
In my case, rather than clearing greenhouse tomato plants today to avoid blight, making the latest batch of #kimchi seemed best.
Robust gut health should make contemplating the road not taken less stressful 🤞🏻
In my case, rather than clearing greenhouse tomato plants today to avoid blight, making the latest batch of #kimchi seemed best.
Robust gut health should make contemplating the road not taken less stressful 🤞🏻
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Excellent displacement activity, Dave 👍🏻.
In my case, rather than clearing greenhouse tomato plants today to avoid blight, making the latest batch of #kimchi seemed best.
Robust gut health should make contemplating the road not taken less stressful 🤞🏻
In my case, rather than clearing greenhouse tomato plants today to avoid blight, making the latest batch of #kimchi seemed best.
Robust gut health should make contemplating the road not taken less stressful 🤞🏻
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
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!
Common plume in the garden this afternoon, on the inside of a greenhouse roof pane in need of rainwater sluicing on the outside
#littlethings
#teammoth
#littlethings
#teammoth
October 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Common plume in the garden this afternoon, on the inside of a greenhouse roof pane in need of rainwater sluicing on the outside
#littlethings
#teammoth
#littlethings
#teammoth
.. and baby frogs, of all things!
October 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
.. and baby frogs, of all things!
Flipping through a supermarket’s leaflet, wooden toys endorsing a crap diet
#Adli
#monetisingobesity
#letsplayatgettingfat
#Adli
#monetisingobesity
#letsplayatgettingfat
October 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Flipping through a supermarket’s leaflet, wooden toys endorsing a crap diet
#Adli
#monetisingobesity
#letsplayatgettingfat
#Adli
#monetisingobesity
#letsplayatgettingfat
First priority, so that I can see which plants are which before chopping, is the transplanting of most of the aggressively dominant #knapweed.
A very welcome native, but the 2-3 plants raised from seeds harvested years ago have now become an unacceptable 20+ vigorous plants
#wildflowers
A very welcome native, but the 2-3 plants raised from seeds harvested years ago have now become an unacceptable 20+ vigorous plants
#wildflowers
October 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
First priority, so that I can see which plants are which before chopping, is the transplanting of most of the aggressively dominant #knapweed.
A very welcome native, but the 2-3 plants raised from seeds harvested years ago have now become an unacceptable 20+ vigorous plants
#wildflowers
A very welcome native, but the 2-3 plants raised from seeds harvested years ago have now become an unacceptable 20+ vigorous plants
#wildflowers
Time was, the annual meadow cut would be Aug/Sep, but with these climate crisis extended seasons I’ve been cutting my garden #wildflower #mini-meadow in mid-Oct.
Almost everything is still growing, but only autumn hawkbit is now flowering and it can only get wetter… strimmer-time
Almost everything is still growing, but only autumn hawkbit is now flowering and it can only get wetter… strimmer-time
October 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Time was, the annual meadow cut would be Aug/Sep, but with these climate crisis extended seasons I’ve been cutting my garden #wildflower #mini-meadow in mid-Oct.
Almost everything is still growing, but only autumn hawkbit is now flowering and it can only get wetter… strimmer-time
Almost everything is still growing, but only autumn hawkbit is now flowering and it can only get wetter… strimmer-time