sarahdalgulls

sarahdalgulls, 11 months ago to random

A trip to Outer Trial Bank today to count gulls and collect the camera traps I put out last month

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sarahdalgulls, 2 months ago to random

Happy St Cuthbert's Day! Post your pics of Cuddy's (eider) ducks; they're named for the saint protecting them when he lived as a hermit on Inner Farne off the coast of Northumberland

#Eider #Northumberland #Duck

sarahdalgulls, 6 months ago to random

Someone lend me half a mil for a thing https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/142063820#/?channel=RES_BUY

sarahdalgulls, 3 months ago to random

@problemsdog I feel like you would enjoy these
https://mastodon.scot/@simonvarwell/111903137838476391

sarahdalgulls, 3 months ago to random

Time for a walk to the final of the remains of illicit stills in upper Coquetdale #Northumberland #Coquetdale

https://sarahdal.github.io/www/northumberland/2024/02/24/RorysStill.html

A bungalow sits on a flat area above a steep drop to a stream. Behind it, are some trees and a farmhouse, and the whole area is surrounded by hills. The sky is blue with a few wispy clouds
A waterfall cuts the scene in two, on the far bank a slope rises to some plantation forestry while on this side, the slope is grassy and peppered with patches of heather. The stream flows either side of a rocky outcrop forming two waterfalls. The sky is blue with some clouds
A narrow stream valley with a few bare trees. Above, is plantation forestry on either side. A few rocks white with lichen near one of the bare trees is the location of the ruin of Rory's Still, an illicit whisky still from the 1700s

sarahdalgulls, 1 year ago to random

Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same.

Scientists think a traumatized orca initiated the assault on boats after a "critical moment of agony" and that the behavior is spreading among the population through social learning.

https://www.livescience.com/animals/orcas/orcas-have-sunk-3-boats-in-europe-and-appear-to-be-teaching-others-to-do-the-same-but-why

sarahdalgulls, 10 months ago to random

#Stats question! Is 5 data points enough to do a linear regression? Is 7?

sarahdalgulls, 1 month ago to random

Ooh, Ilderton Station's for sale (it's the one on the A697 between Powburn and Wooler). If anyone has half a mil for a novelty house.

https://aitchisons.co/property/ilderton-station-house-ilderton-alnwick/

http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/i/ilderton/

sarahdalgulls, 1 month ago to random

Someone suggested using Strava Heatmap to find walking routes and areas that are less busy, genius idea
https://www.strava.com/maps/global-heatmap?style=dark&terrain=false&sport=RunLike&gColor=blue&gOpacity=100&labels=true&poi=true#8.36/55.31/-2.069

sarahdalgulls, 9 months ago to random

oh wow, the Rothbury Estate is up for sale (bit out of my price range tho) https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/137007044#/?channel=RES_BUY - it includes the Simonside hills

sarahdalgulls, 3 months ago to random

Alligator snapping turtle pulled from Urswick Tarn by local councillor with a shopping basket, named Fluffy

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-11/fluffy-the-snapping-turtle/103453248

sarahdalgulls, 3 months ago to random

A walk to another 18th century illicit still high in Coquetdale
#Mosstodon #Northumberland #Coquetdale

sarahdalgulls, 9 months ago to random

Volvo goes SUV-only in UK as all saloon and estate cars axed

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/volvo-goes-suv-only-uk-all-saloon-and-estate-cars-axed

Car sales in the UK are becoming dominated by big SUVs. I don't really understand why this is happening or what an SUV even is, other than "massive" and it's not great news when you much prefer a small hatchback

sarahdalgulls, 1 month ago to random

going to brave the weather tomorrow and hike deep into Kielder Forest to look at a tree, wish me luck

sarahdalgulls, 4 months ago to random

lovely walk today with friends along the Northumbrian Coast, frustating and sad to see the parish noticeboard (that you have to have a key to put up fliers) had "covid is a hoax - google chemtrails and the great darkening" posters

sarahdalgulls, 5 months ago to random

Promised Tyne Bridge repair funding still not received

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7r4gg7xd9o

If this is the way one of the most iconic bridges in the biggest city in the North East is treated, I feel sad for structures like the Tees Transporter that are even more neglected and forgotten, yet just as (or more) important

sarahdalgulls, 10 months ago to random

Quick reminder that adding image descriptions doesn't take long and is quite a small thing to do, but can make a huge difference to someone who uses a screen reader

sarahdalgulls, 2 months ago to random

Soon the only course offered by any university will be Venture Capitalism and it will cost £50,000 a semester

sarahdalgulls, 10 days ago to random

Big Cat DNA found on sheep carcass in Cumbria

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/mammals/big-cat-british-countryside

sarahdalgulls, 5 days ago to random

A bearded vulture that flew through the UK 4 years ago - the second ever record for the UK - has been identified by DNA from her feathers as Flysch-Vigo, who hatched in 2019 in the French Alps, and was seen in the Swiss Alps in 2023, again identified by her feathers

https://www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/No_longer_missing_Bearded_Vulture_Flysch_Vigo_identified_again_four_years_after_her_UK_visit.aspx

sarahdalgulls, 2 months ago to random

'Gamechanger' Scottish wildlife law passes final vote

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-68619141

sarahdalgulls, 2 months ago to random

How to batch convert 1,240 OS grid references to X,Y on my work laptop where not only can I not install any new software, I can't even run macros in excel

sarahdalgulls, 2 months ago to random

I liked this bird seed packaging designed by a student, and then noticed the brief was to take a cheap supermarket product then change the packaging so they can charge twice the price, so real prep for the real world at least

https://packagingoftheworld.com/2016/07/peckish-bird-seed-student-project.html

sarahdalgulls, 1 month ago to random

Killing with Kindness - trichomonosis, a parasitic disease that is easily spread at bird feeders, is wiping out finches with chaffinches down by a third and greenfinch by 67% between 2008 and 2018.

https://www.birdguides.com/news/uk-chaffinches-hit-hard-by-disease/

Bird feeders also negatively impact Willow Tits, by increasing populations of Blue Tits over winter, who can then out-compete them for resources.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800923002276

Another study looking at this -
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0006320721003475

sarahdalgulls, 29 days ago to random

Tourist fined for getting too close to Walrus in Norway

https://news.sky.com/story/tourist-fined-for-getting-too-close-to-walrus-in-norway-13124061