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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social
@wordsanddeeds.bsky.social
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Writer and academic proofreader 📝

And birder 😁

#AmWriting #KidLit #YA

I live by the river
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It certainly is. The previous one was very special - would even go to other people if I stood next to them (and they had food!) ❤️
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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The new #allotment robin is getting bolder - maybe one day it will come to my hand like the other one did ❤️
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Stayed fairly local given the bitterly cold conditions today: #allotment and Growing Sudley walled garden.
Birding highlight: a peregrine keeping watch at the church.
An allotment plot: blue sky above trees and grass, and a fence on the left. Blue sky behind a church with a tower on its right side, with bare trees and white fencing in front. Hazy blue sky above a distant vista of rooftops and trees, with a white fence and green grass in front. Woven willow raised Hugel beds separated by gravel paths, trees and grass behind, with a redbrick building in the background.
November 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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A beautiful morning for a circular walk from the farm 🌞
Birding highlights: grey partridge, sparrowhawk, kestrel, buzzard, lapwing flock.
Also rescued an #allotment robin trapped in next door's fruit cage - probably gone in there yesterday and they'd not noticed, so just as well I popped in!
Green field and distant trees under a cloudless blue sky. A horse wearing a pink blanket in a green field behind a hedge and metal gate, with distant trees and buildings, all under a cloudless blue sky. A pied wagtail had been walking along its back just beforehand. A robin on a wooden fence on an allotment; the fruit cage it was trapped in is partly visible on the left.
November 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Given the heavy rain, volunteer gardening at Growing Sudley this afternoon consisted of joining in with the Stroke and Brain Injury Group's crafting activities, and admiring these home-grown dahlias 😍

Newcomers welcome to the gardening session each Weds, 2-4pm.
Clay shapes, some painted, on a table. Humongous dahlias in a rusty container.
November 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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A great chance to view the amazing transformation of the old changing rooms next to the Growing Sudley walled garden and Sudley House - now a beautiful space for therapists to rent for their practice.
#therapy #wellness #Liverpool
An L-shaped, low concrete building with orange light spilling from the windows, grass in front and trees behind. Text inviting people to visit the transformed changing rooms this Saturday.
November 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Loving the statement sail unfurled at Liverpool Marina this morning!
A marina in the early morning sunshine with a large, multi-coloured sail unfurled on one of the boats.
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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A glorious autumn day spent in my favourite place - the farm where I can now volunteer again after my unwelcome break (ho, ho), and the surrounding fields 💚
Birding highlights: sparrowhawk, kestrel, buzzard, covey of 9 grey partridge, redwing, mipits (and a bonus great white egret yesterday).
Blue sky and fluffy white clouds above a green field. Blue sky and fluffy white clouds above a ploughed field with distant trees. A small pond surrounded by brown vegetation with a small hawthorn in berry in the right-hand corner.
November 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Walked through Hale Park to the Estuary earlier.
Highlights: a few skeins of pinkies, pair of wigeon on one of the ponds, small flock of curlew, buzzard, sparrowhawk. And a mystery raptor that might possibly have been a ringtail hen harrier (one was spotted locally on 24/10 last year 🤷🏻‍♀️)
#UKbirding
A wide path bisrcting a grassy field with trees at the end. A field of flowering brassicas under a grey sky. A small pond surrounded by vegetation and trees under a pale sky. A washed-out fly agaric amongst leaf litter.
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The Growing Sudley garden looked splendid this afternoon during the open garden volunteering session, and there was even fresh produce for sale (and a bonus tin of calendula balm made by B4 Biodiversity and the Stroke and Brain Injury Group) 💐
Autumnal trees with a polytunnel on one side and raised beds on the other, under a blue sky. A raised bed full of dahlias with a path in front and trees behind. A wheelbarrow full of fresh produce next to a large information board about the history of Sudley House and Gardens. A vase of colourful dahlias, a bunch of radishes and a small tin of calendula balm arranged on a yellow tea towel.
October 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Enjoyed the lovely autumnal colours in Stockton's Wood this morning with @birderjack.bsky.social 🍂
Autumnal yellow leaves in a woodland.
October 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Had a very brief walk around the Southern Grasslands after swimming/hydrotherapy. Even the birds thought it was too windy and rainy to be out! Highlights were a kestrel and five mipits.
A bench beside a gravel path under a grey sky, with a few trees and the river in the background.
October 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Lovely to see the marina kingfisher today, and a juvenile little grebe. Plus a peregrine chased by a flock of parakeets over the #allotment this morning.
#UKbirding
A kingfisher on the edge of a boardwalk next to water.
October 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Walked down Within Way this morning before the rain came.
Highlights: one 🤷🏻‍♀️ golden plover, little egrets, a few wigeon, lapwing flock, large linnet flock, skylarks, mipits, reed buntings, raven, buzzard and a few pinkies.
#UKbirding
The Mersey Estuary as the tide comes in, under a blue sky. The Mersey Estuary glittering in the sunlight under a blue sky full of white-grey clouds.
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Enjoyed a walk around Speke & Garston Coastal Reserve with @birderjack.bsky.social during what turned out to be a 🌞 morning.
Highlights: a very urban GWE (beneath the silver globe), stonechats, kestrel, buzzard, skeins of pinkies.
Then found a humongous mushroom on the #allotment.
#UKbirding
A cloudy sky with hints of blue over the Mersey Estuary. A large pond with trees and sky reflected in it. A large silver globe in a small pond with a great white egret lurking beneath it, and trees in the background. A humongous brown mushroom with a hand next to it for scale.
October 22, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Watching the antics of the mute swans, I noticed a lovely female wheatear (barely discernible in video) catching insects amongst the vegetation. The marina's 2nd of autumn, briefly joined by a grey wagtail.
Once again, the council not spraying here ATM has paid off for the wildlife.
#UKbirding
October 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Peregrine, ravens, kestrel, curlews, little egrets, LTTs, lots of mipits and singing robins the highlights during a brief visit to Hale Marsh at high tide.
#UKbirding
A very grey sky and river with a yacht going past the Runcorn Bridge.
October 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Wow!
It's cloudy here now, but there was a nice reflection on the water at Liverpool Marina earlier. No moondogs, though.

(📸 - through glass)
The full moon shining in a dark sky and reflected in the dark water of a marina, with boardwalks and boats surrounding it.
October 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Liverpool Marina mute swans enjoying a brisk bathe. The two cygnets have been practising their wing flapping 🤍🤍
#UKbirding
October 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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The kingfisher is having a good morning at Liverpool Marina.
Pity the video doesn't do him justice!
#UKbirding
September 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Had a great morning at Speke & Garston Coastal Reserve with @birderjack.bsky.social 🌞
Walked 3 miles for 1st time since accident in May (am exhausted now!)
Birding highlights: kestrel, buzzards, sparrowhawk, stonechats, mipits, chiffchaff, swallows, ringed plover, golden plover, etc.
#UKbirding
Blue sky and fluffy white clouds above the Mersey Estuary, with an inlet cutting through grasslands.
September 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Gave an informal talk on autumn bird migration to the UK to the Stroke and Brain Injury Group at Growing Sudley last week, and was given these lovely home-grown dahlias in return 💐
A sheet containing 6 photos of birds that migrate to the UK in the autumn. Various dahlias in a vase on a tiled surface. A woven raised Hugel bed full of plants, with trees behind. A woven raised Hugel bed containing plants, with trees behind.
September 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Me: "Ah, how peaceful it is here."
Canada geese: "We'll see about that."

Also, Cetti's, 2 ravens, 6 buzzards, kestrel, little egrets, dunlin and redshank flocks, etc., and my first pinkies of the autumn.
Down Within Way.
#UKbirding
September 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Kingfisher (and mallard) at Liverpool Marina this morning 😊
#UKbirding
September 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Decided on a whim to walk up to Fairy Glen rather than round Sefton Park lake, and was lucky enough to see the kingfisher 🩵
(Obviously not in the photo, but there is a grey heron lurking in an unusual place!)
Lots of swallows and house martins hunting over the fields, too.
#UKbirding
Trees and shrubs under a pale sky. A grey heron lurks somewhere in the scene. Russet autumn leaves on a green field, with trees around it. Swallows and house martins hunt overhead, out of shot.
September 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM