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2021 - 365 Project

139-365v4 – Needlepoint

The needle (and its shadow) was a straight forward photograph and I’ve added the textured background to look like the mesh you use to sew on to.

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Keeping a Low Profile
2021 - 365 Project

138-365v4 Keeping a Low Profile

A quick shot of one of our regular grey squirell visitors who decided to flatten herself down on the top of the garden wall. No idea why and after a couple of minutes she bounced up and collected a monkey nut from her feeder.

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Dandelion Clock
2021 - 365 Project

135-365v4 Dandelion Clock

I haven’t photographed one of these for a long time, and today wasn’t an ideal time to photograph it because we’ve had a fair amount of rain today and the seed “feathers” (they probably have a proper name but I don’t know it!) were “closed” on the whole. Nevertheless, it

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One Harrassed Coal Tit
2021 - 365 Project

134-365v4 A Number Muck Up and One Harrassed Coal Tit

I’ve got 2 x 66 posts…and I really can’t be bothered working my way backwards renaming every page…so we’ve just skipped number 133, but it’s there…or is it a kind of Schrödinger’s 133… So, today we have our rather splendid Coal Tit…who’s been looking more and more harrassed as this

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Magpie vs Monkey Nut
2021 - 365 Project

133-365v4 Magpie vs Monkey Nut

We spent an amused 5 minutes at lunchtime watching this magpie deal with a monkey nut that had been left out for his arch nemesis the crow. S/He clearly knew that there was something good inside and basically used a woodpecker approach to break into the shell to get the

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A Coat of Many Colours
2021 - 365 Project

131-365v4 A Coat of Many Colours

The Starlings are always a very entertaining bird, garrulous and always up for a punch-up. We’ve started receiving the first few Starling fledglings (or alien babies as we refer to them as). They always up the ante. So, it was nice to see this adult just settling down for a

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After the Shower
2021 - 365 Project

130-365v4 After the Shower

This mornings walk was nicely timed between showers and I had a very pleasant walk around this part of Dunmow. I’ve been doing this walk for many years and whilst house building work has taken up some of the fields (and a pub I used to frequent) on my walk

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Mark Seton

I'm an amateur photographer who enjoys music. I'm a past Chairman and Digital Secretary of the Bishops Stortford Camera club and I hold both LRPS and CPAGB distinctions. I have recently moved to Newcastleton in the Scottish Borders.