After a bit of the alternative Xmas, one not to be repeated, I hope, The Hideout has been a welcome refuge while trying to get back on my feet again.
The Hideout, just a random name I gave it, is my man cave, an integral brick built extension to the garage, which became a convenient dumping ground when we moved in 23 years ago, now nicely converted to a man cave.
A short 4 minute guided tour, no waffle, of The Hideout, which can be viewed HERE.
In my previous The Hideout thread, I did confess to honourably borrowing an annual based theme, so here it starts, and a link to the shorter 2023 thread, "Some from The Hideout 2023";
https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/all-creatures/285975/some-from-the-hideout-2023
Not many photos to start with, I didn't fancy lugging the camera and dropping it, but The Hideout has been a comfort, heating on, gentle music in the background and urban nature (if such a term exists, well it does now), going about its business, and particularly nest building.
A pair of magpies seemed to be nest building atop our cherry tree, twigs etc being taken in, then the next day, the twigs seemed to be transported out, and to another tree, most likely a lot higher, further away. it may have been the cherry tree provided a central storage place, or not.....
The Hideout is definitely fulfilling its intended role.
Less of the waffle, and more photos.....
What better than an early sign of spring, daffodil shoots, that started showing very early December, which they always do here.
Mr BB looking for more suet pellets to be thrown from The Hideout, onto the grass....
Yesterday, 13th Jan,
Blue skies
and a magpie enjoying a bathe...
These first few images were taken through a dirty kitchen window, I know, should be clean, but I had been a guest of our fabulous NHS over Xmas/NY
Though blurred and out of focus, I hadn't anticipated the magpie taking flight,
These last few were taken from The Hideout
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
The sky colours may be a result of particulates in the atmosphere.
Superb sharp Images Mike absolutely fabulous
Billysdad said:A crackin' sunrise there Mike, lovely colours. A bit early in the day for me ...
Thank you
Great sunrise Mike, nice bees as well
tuwit said:The sky colours may be a result of particulates in the atmosphere.
They will be a result of the particles in the atmosphere at the time.
That cloud sunrise/sunset spectacular isn't a rare phenomenon, it extends to anywhere in the world, dependant on the dust, light and water droplets.
I recall a supply physics teacher in my compressive school demonstrating how and why we get the orange glow from a sunrise and sunset, using a torch, prism and following a similar type of semicircle rise from the science room bench.
Though it was a torch, and sufficient chalk dust (no references to tennis for those old enough to remember), he did manage to get a reasonable example of the glow leading up to the unobstructed white-ish torch light, emulating sunrise to sunset.
The prism was used to demonstrate how light bends etc....
Apart from the fact chalk on a blackboard is no longer used in schools today,I'm not sure he'd get away with that these days.....
SnappyMac said:Great sunrise Mike, nice bees as well
Cheers snappy
i love robins said:Superb sharp Images Mike absolutely fabulous
Thank you ILR
Nice to see the flowering waterlily and the lazy Squirrel!
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
One of the chemistry teachers I had was very accurate when throwing a piece of chalk at velocity.
He came a bit of cropper when he dropped a slightly too large piece of sodium into a water bath when doing a demo. It didn't fizz, it went a bit bang.
(There were some fairly recent photos of the red blue moon, attributed to particulates from wild fires in the North Americas).
A surprise and rare (but not unknown) visitor to the garden last night and early hours this morning, a badger and unless I'm mistaken, a sow.
I've no idea whether it's the same one (though I strongly suspect she is) or more than one, whatever, the badger count triggered the trailcams more than the hoggies and foxes put together did all night and early morning.
I will also add, the badger(s) had a very voracious appetite, which I understand badgers are renowned for.
Digressing, I have recorded Sir Brian May's docu to watch later, and looking forward to it.