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30/03/2021-Blog 2 of 2: Walk at the river Itchen: 10 different pictures in this photoset to those I tweeted tonight 

As I said in my last post which I have linked at the bottom of this text I met my Dad to go for a socially distant walk along the river Itchen at Bishopstoke on another as has been documented so well on social media gorgeous weather day with it so sunny and very warm to the point it felt more like May than March which is interesting. It was great to be out in it though. 

The stretch of river I went to at Lakeside today the same as at Fleming Park where I went on Sunday is a tributary to the river Itchen - Monks Brook - and it was very much the same story with how the walk at the river was to those two locations the two days prior with breathtaking scenes of lesser celandine absolutely everywhere. It looked very beautiful and I enjoyed taking the second picture in this photoset of some at the edge of the wood spread out on the ground beside the river and playing fields where we walked first, I also took the first picture in this photoset of in floods in the field some oilseed rape I believe which is known for turning fields yellow in a few days/weeks time every year so this was a surprise on its own. There were other brilliant yellow flowers on show on the walk such as daffodils in adjoining properties and the flowers in the ninth picture I took today in this photoset. I also saw more snowflake flowers beside the river a new flower for me yesterday at Lakeside. 

Bird wise my foray into spring species continued along the river with Chiffchaff and Blackcap the latter a year tick at Lakeside earlier today as I said in my last post both singing well throughout the walk like so many other birds which is a sign of any spring coming or being here and I saw both particularly seeing the Chiffchaff well. Mute Swan and Mallard made familiar sightings at Lakeside of late that I also saw here. There was a great moment when two Buzzards flew over our heads against a smashing blue sky this is such a good spot for them. I also took the third-eighth and tenth and final pictures in this photoset of various beautiful views along the river. It was a brilliant walk today I did love doing it we had not come to this part of the river for about a year so it was long overdue. It was a walk where everything was just coming to life again in spring time and it was powerful and beautiful to witness. 

Wildlife Sightings Summary at the river: One of my favourite birds the Buzzard, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Dunnock, Wren, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Woodpigeon, Magpie, Mallard, Mute Swan, Greylag Goose, Moorhen, Black-headed Gull, Peacock, Brimstone and I heard Robin. 

Another brilliant long weekend for me went out gently with me listening once again to noisy Starlings in the back garden as I processed my photos and I also had a quick look at the Winchester Cathedral Peregrine webcam which I am aiming to do as much as possible lately: https://www.winchester-cathedral.org.uk/the-peregrines-return-in-2020/ I saw the female Winnie get up briefly and saw the eggs which was fantastic. Even if I’ll probably only be doing it via the webcam this year as I am working from home and not in the office at Winchester still I am so excited for the Peregrines’ nesting journey again this year. I have more local nesting journeys to watch of course and I loved seeing both Robin at Lakeside and House Sparrow at home with nesting material today which was fascinating. Its been a brilliant long weekend using up my last annual leave of the financial year with brilliant birds, beautiful butterflies, fabulous flowers, stunning scenes and spring coming to life warming up my heart and the rest of me so warm in top weather. Thanks for all your support through this long weekend and I wish you all a very happy Easter and good rest of the week. I do have some more annual leave coming up later in April originally intended for a holiday trip away which we have postponed until next year due to the pandemic but I hope we may be able to safely get some day trips in. 

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Easter Replies Part 1

I am afraid I am going to have to do replies in 3 parts today xD

 So this part will be about the career I am testing and freaking adfly, second should be about Ravness and Dracklore, and third about Reena going to Uni.

Replies about Easter Picture

my-simension replied to your photoset “Happy Easter everybody! Better late than never :3”

So cute! �� Hope you had a great one! :)

I have enjoyed my Easter indeed, lots of chocolate so far and no work? What’s not to like xD I hope you had a nice time too hun <3 declarations-of-drama replied to your photoset “Happy Easter everybody! Better late than never :3”

I am so weak, I need chocolate again now :/

Lucky you, I had planned to take a picture of the awesome egg on my table, it had a rocket design on it... but we ate it v.v And it was good!! I haz no regret!!! xD davidmont replied to your photoset “Happy Easter everybody! Better late than never :3”

cuties :3

They are!! One of my all time favorite couple

Replies about my Reporter Custom Career

my-simension replied to your post “I have a pile of replies to get back to xD”

Oh so you made those custom careers? ��

Before I went on an almost two years break I was working on two custom careers: Homeless career and a medieval Monastic career. I am sure I posted more pictures, might have been on private. After I am done or further into final testing of the Reporter career I will work on the Homeless at least. It seems there are still people really interested with it, and I am too anyway xD ktarsims replied to your post “I have a pile of replies to get back to xD”

Woot woot!

Yes right?! It wooooorks xD davidmont replied to your post “I have a pile of replies to get back to xD”

OH JESUS CHRIST THIS IS AMAZING! I'm impressed <3

I might not go for amazing, but thank you very much for the continued support :3 declarations-of-drama replied to your post “I have a pile of replies to get back to xD”

Oh! I want to try this so bad!! Making a Custom Career I mean, not getting around to doing a reply post (Which also I'm late with!)

We had a conversation about this already, but I laughed reading this comment so I thought I would post it too xD my-simension replied to your photoset “I am interrupting Reena’s trip in Uni queue to upload pictures about...”

Good luck ��

declarations-of-drama replied to your photoset “I am interrupting Reena’s trip in Uni queue to upload pictures about...”

Yeah good luck with your testing. Does look like a lovely world x

davidmont replied to your photoset “I am interrupting Reena’s trip in Uni queue to upload pictures about...”

such a pretty world! I hope the career works lololol

Thank you all! I will take all the luck available xD The world is really beautiful so far as I have seen. End of day 1 I was still lagging badly but I was getting message every second that somebody was hired to fill a role. So I guess I will have to see once this is settled if I still lag.

Replies about freaking adfly

my-simension replied to your photo “I . HATE . ADFLY Especially their popups. But I love how their...”

And I really hate when I can't close the browser without using task manager. ��

Sometimes using alt+F4 or F5 (forgot which) works too. But I completely agree. davidmont replied to your photo “I . HATE . ADFLY Especially their popups. But I love how their...”

use safebrowse along with adblock my friend <3

I have both of them T_T Except I had to turn adblock off on this page because once in a while you just get this popup directly telling you about adblock, you can’t do anything apart reloading and it comes back... nisukiye replied to your photo “I . HATE . ADFLY Especially their popups. But I love how their...”

so ever since that I kept my adblock on xD. I'll have to wait 10 secs instead of 5, but I couldn't care less, it's better than having to see those nasty pages - u-

Like I just replied to David most times it won’t let me go through if I keep adblock on. It’s like something comes on top of the page and blocks everything. nisukiye replied to your photo “I . HATE . ADFLY Especially their popups. But I love how their...”

Yep, I've been getting very annoying pages as well which are warning for my computers safety lolol

Problem is some kids don’t know they are fakes... or people in general who are not at ease on a computer. willky12 replied to your photo “I . HATE . ADFLY Especially their popups. But I love how their...”

It's tiresome, isn't it *sigh*

Very. Tiresome. Exhausting. Unbelievable it still happens.

And still some creators keep using them. For what? One cent per person? Well I do hope it pays for their coffee at the end of the month, but it won’t be from me anymore. If you need money, be straight about it. A lot of creators have a Donation / Fund me link. Don’t force us all through loops that are a risk to our computer.

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Arashi in Christmas Movies (requested by @tsuribaka92): Ohno from How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Sho from Elf, Aiba from Nightmare Before Christmas, Nino from Home Alone, and Jun from The Polar Express

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1/5/21-Lymington: Terns and more 

As hoped we came to the Normandy lagoon end of the Lymington-Keyhaven nature reserve today for the first time since Easter Sunday. It was a fairly showery, but pretty brilliant day of birdwatching on this walk. I took the first three pictures in this photoset of views. 

The main focus of today was two tern species we needed to see, Little Tern and Common Tern. As we watched over Normandy lagoon I was delighted to see a group of Common Terns noisily gliding overhead, their bright red beaks and lengthy tails standing out. We saw a decent number of these today and very well. It was great to see these important spring time migrants for the first time this year always a key part of my spring and one I had been looking forward to. Whilst looking and watching some landed on the islands too I was thrilled to spot the smaller mustard billed beauty of two Little Terns on the shingle. We then loved seeing these fly around, and saw so much of them flying again they are such beautiful and special birds and it was brilliant to see them so well this afternoon. We really enjoyed these minute wonders sat like dots on the edge of some land in the lagoon from right beside the lagoon with them flying up as well and going over out to sea as well as we walked along and back. At one point a Black-headed Gull swam behind one of the terns and dwarfed it which was a really great indicator of why they are called Little Tern, as the Common Terns are on the way to being the size of Black-headed Gulls and Sandwich Terns are bigger than common. I tweeted a picture of one of the Little Terns on my Twitter Dans_Pictures tonight. 

These two terns ensured very early on that I have still got at least one bird year tick in every month since November 2015, and it takes my bird year list to 148 still competing well with how many I had seen on previous dates in my very best years. For seeing things the last week things fell into place very nicely for us. We were planning to come here Sunday to try and see these terns, but in the glorious and quite warm sunshine we decided instead to go and try and see the Duke of Burgundy butterflies at Noar Hill with some reported Saturday night and thank goodness we did as we saw them very well on Sunday and then the weather changed and it would have been difficult this weekend with unpredictable, maybe slighter colder conditions and showers with some quite heavy, the Duke of Burgundies are one of the more sun and temperature dependent butterflies I find. Going back to last Sunday before we went I knew at that stage I had as many year ticks last month as I did in my previous highest amount of year ticks in one April so a tern sighting of one of these species would make it the most year ticks I ever got in an April. But I knew if we saved this trip until today or this weekend the terns if we saw any of them would have that impact of swiftly keeping my year tick record of at least one in ever month going which can get more difficult the more you get through the spring migration birds going towards the summer which we are getting through quite well now so I was happy with whichever would benefit from where we went. But seeing my first Swift of the year flying past the window at home on Wednesday meant I could have all three as that was one last April year tick which I feel extremely lucky to have.

As we walked on up to the bit of beachy area on the lagoon near to the edge of the lagoon the other side of the channel from us on the path we saw a very satisfying smattering of classy and stunning birds very well. This included on the shore by the path a lovely Turnstone in the fourth picture I took today in this photoset, Avocet very well especially one in the channel of water surrounding the lagoon speeding along it which was great to see and smashing looking Grey Plover and Bar-tailed Godwit in top notch plumage I took the sixth picture in this photoset of one of two Bar-tailed Godwits. There was also a bright white Sanderling nestled in with a small group of Dunlin on the beachy area shown by the eighth picture in this photoset as the terns entertained us some more flying around, Mediterranean Gulls were vocal and present all walk too with one beautiful one darting right over our head especially which I took the fifth picture in this photoset of. I took the tenth and final picture in this photoset of a Great Crested Grebe too. It was such a phenomenal day for waders for me today.

Also when looking behind us out to sea I loved seeing a male and female Eider as I had hoped a bird I had seen before this year my 100th bird of the year at Weston Shore in January in fact. It was a great view in itself of two of one of our most special species. But they proceeded to swim in much closer to shore and we got sensational views of them. It was such an honour to bee in their company. For a bird that we saw closer than ever and therefore in a completely new way during our showpiece Northumberland holiday in 2019 and also the Moray coast part of our Scotland 2018 trip too this I believe is the best view I’ve ever got of any at this reserve and in Hampshire this being one of the key places we see them here. I tweeted pictures I took of these. 

We arrived in a shower and walked on down the coast for a bit in one quite heavy one. The sea and landscape had looked so beautiful in the sunshine in between with some top colours brought out I took the seventh and ninth pictures in this photoset of these views and I took and tweeted some more dramatic ones with the shower coming in. There were nice sunny scenes on the way back too with a rainbow forming. Standing out on the walk down was fumitory which I first ever noticed and learnt on Easter Sunday mixed in deliciously with flowering gorse, and there were some interesting yellow flowers around too and some lesser celandine before we left. We then as we did on a similar showery Saturday with similar birds seen a memorable day in late April 2019 saw a splendid summer plumage black Spotted Redshank standing out in the rain with its head on its back very atmospheric. We saw a Greenshank nicely walking past Normandy lagoon on the walk around too.

Wildlife Sightings Summary: My first Common Tern and Little Tern of the year, three of my favourite birds the Little Egret, Great Crested Grebe lots which was great and Shelduck, Redshank, Spotted Redshank, Greenshank, Bar-tailed Godwit, Avocet, Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Grey Plover, Turnstone, Dunlin, Sanderling, Mallard, Eider, Great Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull, Black-headed Gull, Mediterranean Gull, Mute Swan, Canada Goose, Carrion Crow, Meadow Pipit, Swallow and lots of House Sparrows quite notably. It was great to see a Roe Deer on the way home as well and when at home tonight as well as taking in some nice new flowers in the garden as I did before going a Jackdaw coming very close to the garden which was great.  

A fantastic day for seeing wildlife for me and I hope you all had a good day. Unfortunately I did learn of something not so pleasant which I would like to react to as I have across my social media here with the devastating news from the Brenig Osprey Project that a nest with one newly laid egg in has been chopped down by a criminal/s over night: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-56955084.amp This is one of the most disgusting, thoughtless, shocking and horrific acts of crime on wildlife and the environment in this country I have ever known happening to one of my very favourite birds. Those involved must be brought to justice so I wish North Wales Police all the best with their investigation. This amazing project, and iconic precious species must be given all our love and support. I have donated a small amount to the North Wales Wildlife Trust in the hope that this may assist in the future of the project and the work they do generally and I commend them for their swift response to attempt to salvage something for their breeding season and I stand with them as well as all other organisations and projects protecting raptors facing the harshest of persecution all too often in this country. As well as standing with this species and here is a post I did a few years ago about why I love this bird so much: https://tmblr.co/Z65m7x1sRZjf6