Springwatch

One of my photos made it on the BBC Springwatch website

Dark-edged Bee-fly in the garden just now. They're taking full advantage of the Sun, Bluebells and Forget-me-nots being out!

Boot likes to keep an eye on the Springwatch webcams, here watching baby Jackdaws in their nest.

i was delighted to find out that my photo was on the springwatch website :-)

Suffolk, UK

via Instagram bit.ly/1UtNj9V

On Springwatch they said that they always return to the same nest! On the Isle of May part of the colony has started nesting in a complete new area could this be because they have built a visitors centre right next to there old nesting area.

Some stuff I've picked up of late. All sorts of daft old junk, with tracks from Russia, France, Brazil, Germany, Turkey, Spain etc..

All from OG vinyl of course.

www.mixcloud.com/pencilface/springwatch-mix/

Tracklist:

INTRO

1. SOLID GOLD CADILLAC - lady howerd (RCA LP)

2. MARTIN CIRCUS - tomahawk (Pop Music LP)

3. EQUALS - granny granny (President LP)

4. STIX AND STONES - rouge plant blues (Odeon 45)

5. BOB SEGER - lonely man (Capitol 45)

6. BOBBY FRANKLIN'S INSANITY - bring it on down to me (Thomas 45)

7. ALIVE N KICKIN - junction creek (USA, Roulette LP)

8. PEOPLE - livin it up (Paramount 45)

9. NORA BUMBIERE - pauper's dance (Melodiya LP)

10. TRAFFIC SOUND - you got to be sure! (SonoRadio 45)

11. ARIEL SILBER - ???? (*Israeli LP*)

12. GRUPO DE EXPERIMENTACION SONORA - cuba va! (Areito LP)

13. RAUL SEIXAS - sociedade alternativa (Philips LP)

14. LA QUINTA FACCIA - strano uomo (Euro International 45)

15. HAZY OSTERWALD SEXTET - carascho (Mabel LP)

16. 3 HUREL - doner dunya (Diskotaur 45)

17. *various Turkish 45 intros*

18. SEYHAN KARABAY - new kaldi (Sahiler 45)

19. VIBES -night court (Not Not Fun 45)

20. JEAN CLAUDE FOHRENBACH - hong kong virus (Music Parade LP)

21. MANFRED KRUG - wenn's draussen grun wird (Amiga LP)

22. FREE DESIGN - bubbles (Project 3 45)

23. OS BRAZOES - pega a voga cabeludo (RGE LP)

24. LUIZA MARIA - nao corra atras do sol (Som Livre LP)

25. ALEPH - injection (AZ 45)

26. MONIQUE THUBERT - avec les oreilles (Barclay 45)

27. NAI BONNET - jelly belly (Karate 45)

28. BIG JAY McNEELY - psycho serenade (Swingin 45)

29. THE IDEALS - gorilla (Cortland 45)

30. RAY ELLIS - the sheik (RCA 45)

31. THE SPARKLES -the hip (Hickory 45)

32. ORQUESTRA SOM LIVRE - agora (Som Livre LP)

33. EBERHARD SCHOENER - ketjak rock (Harvest LP)

34. ALEXANDER GRADSKY - on st john's night (Melodiya LP)

35. TRIUMVIRAT - flashback (Harvest LP)

36. THE BBC - upside down (Mega 45)

37. PEPPER TREE - workin (Capitol 45)

38. VERONIKA FISCHER - und wer bist du (Amiga LP)

39. CHRIS HODGE - supersoul (Apple 45)

38. BLACK FIRE - come on and do it (RCA 45)

39. NEIL CHRISTIAN - she's got the power (Vogue 45)

40. J. BASTOS - alice (Bellaphon 45)

41. MESSENGERS - in the jungle (Rare Earth 45)

42. HOLLINS AND STARR - digress (Ovation LP)

Simply stunning, much smaller than its cousin the elephant hawk-moth!

The woodpecker calls as he arrives and in between mouthfuls. I had my camera ready so managed to get better photos through the glass today.

©️James Johnson Photography 2018

Taken on Sunday. I have refused to mow the lawn whilst the dandelions are attracting such amazing species.

had that springwatch thing happen yesterday the one where they send you an E-mail saying they would like to use a photo on the show and then you end up watching springwatch on edge looking at your watch then all of a sudden they say got some viewers photo's all excited then they don't show it.

I have learnt from past times not to tell people your going to on springwatch because you look like a tit when your not.

Thing that does wind me up about them showing things is when theres people who do it for a living have photo's on like the kestrel photo I see a kestrel every day up in grappenhall and if I had a 800mm lens i'd get a decent photo of one anyway moan over I can't really moan to much I have had photo's on springwatch and the one they asked for was only a grey squirell

Wigston, Leicester, UK

Came across them asleep at first on an old local bridge

One poor chick that didn't make it, must of got pushed out of the nest and landed on our garden table.

spring is here

Filmed at Kirkham, North Yorkshire on 9th April 2019, during participation in national RSPB Willow Tit Survey.

Taken ages to work out why. The BBC Web team have muffed up on a link:

At the bottom of the page there is a bit about Raft spiders. The raft spider shot is one of mine. But the link goes to my Flickr stream, and not their 'faves' or 'Spider album' if they have one.... You can scroll left and right from that image, so you can look at anything you like on my stream. Click on it and Flickr opens... It's great that I'm getting thousands of hits showing as 'No referrer' as it's coming through the BBC's LAN firewalls from the wrong side... S'pose I better let them know.

I might have to point out that the next picture down (which has nothing to do with me) and is also meant to be about Raft spiders, is linked to shots that are mostly of Nursery Web Spiders. . :@D

The 'BBC' logo is a registered trademark of the 'British Broadcasting Corporation'.

A lot of interest in the television this evening.