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FlyingFox

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Also questionable quality of pictures from this tablet. Birds at the feeder once I returned from reuse center drop-off. It took me a while. Three and a half hour circa. 🪶

Four sparrows by the seed pile on the terrace. Photographed from the open door to the terrace. It's a miracle. Or they are really hungry.

A great tit on the wooden railing can't believe her eyes looking down on the sparrow folk. She also approaches peanuts on a black metal stand that holds a wooden pole with feeders. Tall shrubs with remaining green and yellow leaves behind her. She also stands on a coco fiber doormat I gave up and now it's for birds to clean their beak, to land on or whatever.

A great tit stands on the wooden railing looking up at the blue tit that pecks on suet balls in a wire silo shaped feeder. I made a roof from a dark brown planter saucer for every tube feeder to help protect it a little from the rain or raptor's eyes.

A blue tit at the all plastic silo feeder with two green perches by the feeding holes and a lot of sunflower seeds in it. She looks up checking on contents.

November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM

FlyingFox

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Excuse my high-pitched for borbs voice, it looks like it helps them find courage, it worked with chickadees, with doves, with a magpie that forgot her walnut, she returned. Before the sparrows visit I had a chat with ducks and huge fish. Must download the big camera, really. And it's low resolution.

November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM

FlyingFox

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Hi. Still here, I love Hannigram, art from people around here even if in hibernation and Dracula Hannigram fanfic from dbmars especially. I am not very active in the field, but observe from a distance lately. Life got crazy this year. #Hannibal #Fannibals

A quick black and white doodle of Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy hugging each other at the reunion in 2024.

November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM

FlyingFox

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Still have those art supplies from the last time. And the owner let go of the pile of never used handkerchiefs, I washed them, not gonna iron them. But might it be useful to some crafty person for something?

Two sizes of handkerchiefs placed on top of the other. There are a lot more smaller ones. The big one is beige with darker stripes on the edges, the small one is white with blue and purple I think, it's photographed under artificial light.

A stock of the handkerchiefs in a small grocery bag. The stripes are colourful and differ a lot.

November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM

FlyingFox

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On my way to the post office and a pharmacy I also carried a few things to donate them to a reuse center. Including a fish tank decoration in the shape of a castle on a cliff. I used it as a décor for myself in the past. Not in the photos.

A bunch of stuff that went to the donation center. Headphones, previous router, ceramic mushrooms décor, wooden leaves, autumnal fairy lights.

A brown shell shaped bowl, one of the plastic bird feeders. I hold the bowl in the other hand, the feeder is in the dark of the backpack with other stuff. A little junk of stuff, but it counts.

There were ravens foraging in the green grass next to the road, here is a pair of them right across the street and two more in the distance.

In the same scene, they just keep foraging together. I went for the walk and left a few open walnuts in strategic places of high corvid activity, sadly I had no luck with photographing them due to school kids, dog walkers and other mysteriously spawned noise makers in the areas of my presence.

November 12, 2025 at 12:49 PM

FlyingFox

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And in the evening I created something and it was tasty, with apple, vanilla sugar, and soft curd cheese, baked slowly, cos of the filling. Not only did it smell so good, but it tasted decent I made it disappear from the baking tray.

Ingredients for the sweet nom noms. I use store bought puff pastry with butter in it. They sell more versions. It's unrolled on the baking tray on top of the white painted gas stove. The side of the stove is made of cheaper material and the top edge is rusty. On the countertop to the right sits a bamboo cutting board with a pile of cut up apple, shorter knife with black handle, next to it is a white porcelain bowl with fork in mixed soft curd cheese where I added vanilla sugar. These will be placed in the middle of six pastry squares and covered with corners making sort of envelopes.

I baked it slowly for thirty minutes and added ten more minutes at a higher temperature. It smelled good and also tasted good. No raw pastry or burnt bottoms. Here is my hand with a half of the sample and the last one is on the tray below. I didn't bother with dishes or getting up and away from the warmth of the oven.

November 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM

FlyingFox

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Made some dietary changes (after doctor's appointment), I don't know if I will stick with it but I somehow prepared the portions, cut the vegetables and started using up the pasta and there are also boxes of rice still.

A photo of a small pot with lid and a stainless steel bowl with dense stew mix. There are root vegetables, chicken meat bits, pasta noodles, and legumes mixed in it. And water and salt. I am not a fan of cooking, but I need something else to eat. Also looking at the price every time.

November 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM

FlyingFox

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And I called the rescue of course. The hedgie unrolled a lot later, is too smol, so light that I would have to go and get a kitchen weight to find out how light.

Hedgie stopped in his naps and pulled head from below his spiky body. Here on the way to sniff around the box. There is a red light for warmth, a bowl with food and water and hemp bedding.

A box with the hedgie in a corner in a stand-by stance.

Two boxes with pet carriers, bowls, bird feeders I will ask rescue if they want them too. It is an opportunity to give, if they don't want them I will know for future reference.

November 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM

FlyingFox

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Today's adventure, a little hedgehog slowly decompressing, he was very hungry and got into a situation. I am keeping eye on that lamp of course. 🦔

November 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM

FlyingFox

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It helps wildlife, plants and soil. From all the materials from the garden I keep rebuilding this bank here. It's not a perfect concrete beauty, but an entwined system of sticks, rocks and plants. There was no space to walk on before, nor to add those tiles.

Top view of a new bank I built this past year by the path to the garage and the rest of the garden. It's also green. It wasn't.

November 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM

FlyingFox

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Rainy morning at the terrace bird feeder, with two doves, some chickadees and sparrows. The garden is dropping all leaves, which I will leave there, except a pile or two for hedgies.🪶

November 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM

FlyingFox

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Some smol and tiny crustacean life in there, very bad photos:

A crustacean is chilling on an oval pebble in a spotlight. Some river grass roots run in the water under this stone.

Tiny swimming crustaceans under the artificial light. Their body is shaped like a water drop with antlers.

November 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM

FlyingFox

@trinn4ce.bsky.social

Removed remaining hiding spots from the terrace, remaining furniture, swept most of the dirt away and after dark went to check on the resident spood and plants. #spider #bugSky 🌱

A white painted wooden chair, which was before the white stage (the colour I had on hand) heavily damaged and caked in oils, paints, mortar served well as a table for birds, plant stand, as a chair and after a lot of rainy days and nights with frosty mornings I took it home and placed it strategically in one of the basement's storage rooms.

Lit by a flashlight the scene is photographed from behind the corner, the light is positioned towards the ceiling, creating an eerie atmosphere of an angled photo with focus in the middle while surrounding darkness is blurry. Built-in shelves from old furniture are behind the chair. Only a few things are left there.

Resident round spider on his wall in the light of a flashlight photographed from the front on an angle. The flashlight casts an ominous shadow behind the spider, who just sits there like any other night of sitting there. Meanwhile in the upper level under the row of windows are tiny copies of this cutie, every one of them is set circa fifty centimeters from the other. A kindergarten.

Green leaves with fluffy stems sprouted from old potatoes I placed there in the summer. It's another place for sticks, leaves, big branches, insects, birds to perch on, and such. A night time photo with a light beam coming from the right. Nothing else is visible.

Ah, yes, little daisy. Not only does she grow in November, she also blooms openly at night. Top view, light comes from the bottom of the picture.

November 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM

FlyingFox

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The pet swamp is alive, though some plants are done as it's cold. Some still cope. Moss in drift wood cracks grows, but birds tend to stick their bill in it.

Pet swamp and random-plants jungle survived and it's November. Top view of both cylinder vessels on the terrace. The swamp is a bigger mixing cement bin, very heavy. Plants survived, even very random patches of moss from the garden or terrace surface. In the water, coco fiber and a bit of sand survived plants like plantain, yarrow, cinquefoils, grass I took specifically from the river and some others. A little floating plant completely overtook the swamp surface and I took it in a test tube from the little pond by the river together with some life that thrived there. The one thing I bought specifically for this project was the bin.

November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM

FlyingFox

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Collared doves pecking on a seed pile I put on the terrace like three days ago. #pigeonSky

November 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM

FlyingFox

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Collared doves discovered a decent and hidden balcony tray. The noise the one makes is with walnuts. #pigeonSky

November 8, 2025 at 6:32 AM

FlyingFox

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Tonight I went through our retro and vintage tree ornaments. I tossed just rubble, old hooks, pine needles, sharp shards, but a lot of it is so fragile and cracked around that hanging cylinder area and a lot more was damaged in accidents. It doesn't make me cry though. The name tags yesterday did.

An old box with compartments full of tree ornaments made of super thin blow glass and hand painted, there are colourful houses, a green pinecone, a bulb with star shaped inward pushed decor. There are two polar bears in a kitchen paper towel in one compartment, not visible to the viewer except a little oddly shaped piece. They are also "newer", peeling and I am not a fan.

Old blow glass tree ornaments. Two are smaller bulbs with convex front, the one that's pink with gold accents has two birds on a branch made of plastic and glued to the front, second one has a blue background with a chestnut coloured pony figurine on the front and there is one bigger one with pointy end and more complex scene on the front.Grassland and cloudy sky are made of some sandy material, painted, rain is falling and the plastic figurine is a white schnauzer dog with brown snoot and tail bone and this pup carries red umbrella. The ornament is see-through and also painted red. The last one is simply a huge strawberry.

A hand in an ill fitted, way too big white latex glove that's really dirty at the fingertips, shows three empty brass candle holders plus one candle holder clipped to the little finger with a white candle in it. These small candles used to have simple pictures on them. This one has bells in the purple line. That's how the lights on a tree looked like in the past and yes, of course, you had to be vigilant with open fire like that. It looked lovely though when all the candles were lit and nothing burned down. Boxes with old ornaments in the background.

November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM

FlyingFox

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What I dunno what to do about though are old art supplies like these various pencils and wax pastels from the previous century. It's probably an easy tossy tossy, but..

Line of colour pencils of various lengths and kinds. There used to be pencils with pictures, there is one with butterflies print, I saw one with boats elsewhere.

We also made wax pastels in this country. in this photo there are three brands grouped together at the bottom of a cardboard box I took in a grocery shop.

November 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM

FlyingFox

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Aand I successfully removed another huge pile of stuff. This time I contacted assisted living people about creative stuff and they said yes and arrived the very same day! I can't believe it.

An entryway photo of a pile of boxes, bags, workshop rulers, smaller stuff on the stairs up, a terrarium in the other room and such. I wasn't sure what they could take for their clients, so I categorised it.

And an empty space on the floor and some on the stairs after they left with anything useful. That made me happy.

November 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM

FlyingFox

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Morning chickadees at the feeders. This time they have three tube silos while other feeders are in the washing. 🪶

November 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM

FlyingFox

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Defreezing myself for once, 10°C or 50°F ain't very pleasant. I expect a skyrocketed electricity bill as we are being punished for trying to keep ourselves warm in this country.