Add your "Odds & Sods" here thread ... 2020

Unknown said:

Did you order the mapping plane to work out how to get from the living room to the kitchen in your new spread?

lol Nige,  this apartment is certainly a downsize from our last house and we won't need sat-nav to find our way around and the kitchen is part of the living/dining room !     There is a lot of bird flight around the apartment with corvids, Buzzard, ducks, geese,  also rabbits and squirrels and I can hear Goldcrests in the conifer trees so even from our new home we shouldn't be short of wildlife sightings.      Developer is now working on getting the naturally fed water garden cleaned up of blanket weed an the fountain fixed and a promise of the introduction of carp fish so I expect I'll see a heron dropping in  !       I won't be feeding the birds any more being 3 floors up from ground level and a risk of getting mallards on the balcony !!    Bird feeding will have to wait until we are on our walks or bird reserves.    

Most adorable youngster and grown-up -shots of House Sparrows and Robins, Hazel.  So sweet with their soft "beak-edges" (what's the proper word for it?)

I LOVE the little one-pic comic : sweet pic , great caption and very well made. Should publish it (Bet a lot of Magazines or Papers would take it.)

Here two shots of one of my regular balcony visitors, though the open window  (The Golders was cautious , saw me,  made a nice show of stretching anyway, but the sunflowerhearts were just too  tempting...

Unknown said:

and not sure if this was the mapping plane going over ...................

Love the caption. 

There used to be a captions thread, but a search didn't reveal anything other than osprey captions.

It's possible the plane was doing OS surveying, though they prefer clear skies and D-FIPS, the reg (left hand wing underside) on that one has been used for aerial surveys. The giveaway clue is repeated flights along what appears to be the same flight path, up and down.

If you want confirmation next time, look up Flight Radar 24 [www.flightradar24.com], live tracking of all civilian flights, then set the map to your area.

A couple from the front garden yesterday, cuckoo spit, otherwise the more correct term, the frothy excretion of the foghopper nymph

Thanks for the info Mike, it did pass over again so I guessed it was mapping;  unfortunately your link doesn't work.      Lovely photos of the frog-hopper cuckoo spit.

Here's the link aitch ... https://www.flightradar24.com/

Be aware!!!  It's a time-waster! Lol