6402. Dean Lane skate park (758)

Andy Council, Dean Lane, Bristol, September 2024
Andy Council, Dean Lane, Bristol, September 2024

It must be nice (Hamilton earworm alert), to have talented friends who honour your birthday with a celebratory paint jam. On this occasion it was Andy Council’s special 50th birthday and he was joined by several artist friends in Dean Lane.

Andy Council, Dean Lane, Bristol, September 2024
Andy Council, Dean Lane, Bristol, September 2024

This was his own birthday piece which is a wonderful starling painted in his inimitable style. The stylised bird exaggerates the superb iridescent colours that starlings have which you can only really see when you get up close. This is a great piece, on a slightly awkward section of wall, but Andy Council has nailed it. Happy belated birthday.

Startled – 30 Days Wild (29/30)

Starlings, Coronation Coast National Nature Reserve, Cleethorpes, September 2023
Starlings, Coronation Coast National Nature Reserve, Cleethorpes, September 2023

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Taking to the sky

a flock of startled starlings

evade peregrine

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by Scooj

  • 30 Days Wild is an initiative organised by the Wildlife Trusts. It is an annual challenge event, for those who choose to participate, to do one ‘wild’ thing a day throughout the month of June. I will try to write a nature haiku every day if I can, as my contribution to this celebration of wildlife and biodiversity. I did this back in 2015 and thoroughly enjoyed the challenge.

Mini murmuration

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Starling flock startled

not by me you understand

peregrine falcon

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by Scooj

The gathering

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Starlings in a row

waiting for something, for dusk

building momentum

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by Scooj

Song tree

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A hundred voices

unseen shrill starling voices

fill the air with song

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by Scooj