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I swear at birds.
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yellowferret.bsky.social
Squeezed in a trip to Cley last weekend and was lucky enough to get a few moments of sunshine + Golden Plovers #birds #nwt #norfolk
Topside flyby of approx 100 Golden Plovers coming in to land at Cley Side view of approx 60-70 Golden Plovers flying right to left. Approx 30 Golden Plovers resting in shallow water Side view of approx 20-30 Golden Plovers flying right to left
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
A few more from last month's trip to #skagen #birds
Red brick water tower in Skagen, 34 metres high. A distant group of 9 Eider flying over the sea right to left with a large ship in the background. A Ringed Plover in late afternoon part sunlight, resting on one leg. A Sanderling in white/grey winter plumage walking towards camera with its head down as it forages on the beach.
November 5, 2025 at 11:06 AM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Sunday dusting in Tiny Town while the Class 52 Western Duke does a check of tracks. Seriously considering a 5% council tax hike on the Tiny folks in my next budget. #ngauge
November 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Blood-stained cam nets a bit too on the nose, but point well made.
My local town hall with two large nets covered in poppies (hard to tell from over the road) draped over its front.
October 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Home from a few days in Denmark and happy to have met some proper characters on the beach at Skagen #birds #birding #sanderling
Two small grey white waders in shallow water on a beach - Sanderlings (calidris alba) Sanderling running along beach,left to right, encroaching water in the background. Two Sanderlings, one in forground in focus and with slightly darker upper than the out of focus bird in the background. Sanderling running in shallow water along beach, right to left.
October 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Ooh, an online hospital you say!
Screengrab explaining there are 8776 people in the queue ahead of you.
September 30, 2025 at 7:50 AM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Made it through all the imaginary drones at Copenhagen and Aalborg today and got to Skagen. And in the space of one day passed the RSS Sir David Attenborough, the Danish royal yacht, and the 10,000th airbus ever made -an A350 for Singapore airlines. Anyway.. bad train and plane pics.
Nordjyske Jernbaner (NJ) Siemens Desiro DMU -blue 3 unit train waiting at Aalborg platform this afternoon before heading north to Skagen. Part view of the super model railway layout in the hall of Aalborg station. Bad phone photo of Singapore Airlines A350 at Copenhagen today, with large gold lettering to rear of fuselage '10,000th Airbus Aircraft' Screengrab form MarineTraffic showing Boaty McBoatFace docked at Ferdikshavn today.
September 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
After a summer with not enough birding done, made a quick trip to Cley and Titchwell earlier this week
A group of 5 Bar-tailed Godwits flying right to left low over a calm sea A distant pair of Spoonbills stood together in shallow water with other scattered waders A Black-tailed Godwit landing in the water close to four others A lone Ruff in winter plumage centre of frame, out of focus a Avocet in foreground and background
September 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Put in some Woodland Scenics JustPlug lights. Which weren't quite as 'just plug' as hoped but I got there. Underneath the board is a mess, accidentally pulled a couple of the signals but fixed now. And my shunters struggle to find power in a couple of places, but learning & enjoying #ngauge
September 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
More trees, a pumpkin patch, put some hedges down. The tracks are all working again. A good long weekend. #ngauge
August 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Had to do some careful drilling to 'plant' them. Scale doesn't look as mad as I thought it might. Still lots to do and enjoying it all. #ngauge
Two small (scrawny) model trees on a railway layout in front of low relief buildings. One fir type tree in green foliage, a smaller rounder tree in yellow. 5 model fir trees on a model railway layout. End of a model railway layout board with 5 model trees in yellow foliage. Corner of a model railway layout with a model gasometer, two model oak type trees in a mixed autumn foliage, and two smaller trees in a more yellow foliage.
August 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Trees ready for planting this week. By far the messiest piece of work done for the layout so far but at least it forced me to tidy up after. #hoovered #ngauge
About 25 small model trees laid out on a grey crafting mat. Mix of tree colours - first are green and others a combination of autumn colours.
August 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Trees are finally happening. Using Graham Farish armatures which seem easy. Scale is a bit ? so going to have to explain to residents of Tiny Town how a couple of Californina Redwoods have just appeared at the end of their road. #ngauge #learningonthejob
August 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Government (me) put a power station right next to Tiny Town. Tiny people gonna be raging. They haven't even got trees, or fences, or people yet. #ngauge #tinytown #class04 #class42
August 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Starting the day with a nice cup of lolz #otbc
August 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
yellowferret.bsky.social
In my head I'd expected the Swedish Blackhawk to rock up in M90 splinter cam. And it didn't 😶 #riat #planes
French Navy 'Atlantique 2' taking off at Fairford. Pakistani JF-17 Thunder leaving RIAT 2 Spanish Eurofighters taking off to leave RIAT Swedish Blackhawk helicopter displaying at RIAT, in drabbest of drab olive paint schemes.
August 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Finally got the rest of the backing up. Have a couple of days off work now so might actually get some 🌳 on there by the end of the weekend #ngauage #learning
August 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Some Fairford 'phoon fun from last month #riat #planes
Spanish Typhoon coming into land just a couple of metres above runway with colourful tiger meet tail livery. Montage of 4 pics of RAF display Typhoon against a grey sky. RAF Typhoon touching down. Front view of RAF Typhoon on the growing red arrows displaying interest distant background.
August 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Finally got a bit of #ngauge mojo back. Needed to give tracks a proper clean but things are running again.Time to crack on with some more low relief and scenery. #tinytown
August 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
I get it's a weird average of fan predictions, but this is so wrong and just shows how relegated sides have no **** idea how tough the championship is, even if they've only been out of it a season. #hubris #wsc
August 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
yellowferret.bsky.social
If Ford did conformal fuel tanks for the 2019 Focus estate they could take my money now. Anyway, the Polish F16s last week were super smart #riat #airshow
Top view of grey Polish block 52+ F16 as it does a knife edge pass along the crowd line at RIAT airshow Grey camouflaged Polish F-16 landing, from right to left, at RIAT airshow Distant top view of grey F-16 against a grey cloudy sky Three Polish F-16 block 52+, flying right to left, grey camouflage, the lower two fitted with conformal fuel tanks.
July 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Rare sight of RAF Wedgetail last weekend. #planes
Flyby with RAF Wedgetail and Red Arrows behind and to either side Wedgetail from the rear as it takes off, undercarriage still down. Single Wedgetail flyby against a cloudy sky Closer side view of Wedgetail as it flies by with 3 red arrows just in shot as well.
July 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
And a few from the flightline last weekend #riat
A parked Antonov 72 on the flightline. 2-tone desert paint scheme and Egyptian roundel on fuselage. High mounted wings and two engines mounted above wings. View of front of Spanish Typhoon aircraft showing cockpit, radome, and canard dipping down showing tiger eye and stripe decoration. Red arrows display in distant background. Two aircraft parked on display flightline, both from Pakistan airforce. JF-17 fighter in foreground with possible munition loads laid in front, and colourful C-130H support aircraft in background. Front view of U-2 aircraft showing front of cockpit canopy, nose, engine intakes, and wing roots. Completely black paint scheme, red engine intake covers.
July 24, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Recovering from a week of chips and noise and time to start the #riat edits, kicking off with last UK display of the Danish F-16 before the Danes retire the machine. And sell them to Argentina 😬. #planes #airshow
A composite of 3 pictures of a flying Danish F-16 in a red and white/silver display livery Angled underside and rear of red and silver Danish display F-16 as it accelerates upwards and to the 11 o'clock of camera position. Silver and red underside of Danish display F-16 showing as it does a fast pass from right to left of camera position against a grey cloudy sky.
July 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
yellowferret.bsky.social
Looking forward to display day 1. The Czech SAR demo yesterday was a cracker #Sokół #riat #riat25
Two helicopters, one in red and white paint scheme, above and to rear of a another in grey and green camouflage. The camouflaged one is winching two people in orange immersion gear.
July 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM