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Really enjoyed the annual trip to #Lundy yesterday (organised by #DevonBirds). Over 40 species of birds under the glorious blue sky & sun. Great company and a cider in the Marisco Tavern to finish off the day.

#UKBirding #Birds #Devon #AwayDay #Birdsof Mastodon #nature #wildlife

📷 Puffin
📷 Guillemot
📷 Manx Shearwater

Mark Lundy is going to be released from prison after 23 years behind bars.

I could never make up my mind about Lundy. During the trial he seemed to be guilty as sin. The evidence was damming. But Steve Braunias' various interviews with the man over subsequent years have added a big question mark. I trust Braunias' judgement.

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360648991/mark-lundy-be-released-prison

#NZ #Lundy

Lundy Island seen from Woolacombe

Canon EOS 1Dx
Canon EF28-300mm f/3.5-5.6L IS USM

#canon #canondslr #canoneos1dx #canonlseries #canon28300l #lundy #island #sea #ocean #sky #skyline #photography #digitalphotography #devon #england #northdevon

Today I have been mostly distracted by the island of #Lundy.

Flyover of #Lundy in the Bristol Channel. #Qgis and #Blender, lidar rasters from DEFRA.

Fed a slope raster from qgis through a colorramp to a mix shader node to choose between grass and stone textures.

A fabulous day trip to #Lundy organised by #DevonBirds. Excellent company and 42 species of #Birds -- I guess the highlights were the Puffin, a female Whinchat and a female Golden Oriole but the pint in the Marisco Tavern was good too 😀

📷 #Skylark
📷 #Linnet
📷 #Whinchat
📷 #Puffin

#BirdsOfMastodon #Wildlife #Nature #IslandLife #Beer #Birding #Devon

🌲 #Bird populations have soared on #LundyIsland with some 40,000 rare #seabirds thriving on its shores

The #BristolChannel island is home to 95% of #England's breeding #Manx Shearwaters, a species that was once on the brink of extinction on #Lundy

Thanks to a project that eradicated rats from the island in 2006, the #Shearwater population has soared from about 600 in 2001 to more than 25,000

#Puffins have increased in number from 13 in the year 2000 to 1,335 in 2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-67386799

FANTASTIC news from Lundy

"There are more seabirds nesting on the island of Lundy than at any time since the 1930s, conservationists have revealed.

The tiny island in the Bristol Channel, a globally famed location for Britain’s seabirds, is now home to 25,000 Manx shearwaters – 95% of England’s breeding population – as well as 1,335 puffins and more than 150 pairs of storm petrels, a species that only arrived on the island in 2014."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/11/number-of-nesting-seabirds-on-island-of-lundy-at-nine-decade-high?CMP=share_btn_tw

#Seabirds #HPAI #Lundy

#326 M.C.S. Cruwys (ed) - Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries, Vol XXVI - Part III. James Townsend & Sons, Exeter, July 1954. #Devon #Cornwall #DCNQ #MargaretCruwys #Archives #History #Genealogy #Crosses #Lundy #Padstow #BookOfTheDay

The front cover of Devon & Cornwall Notes & Queries 26:3 for July 1954. Plain pale blue with title in black and a list of contents, including articles on Cornish Crosses, Lundy Lighthouse, Gangsters in 1387, Padstow and Joanna Southcott.

#photography #church #churchwindow #window #lundy #silentsunday

A window in the church on Lundy Island, off the coast of SW England. I've a soft spot for shapes, patterns, symmetry and interesting light when out with my camera

Something from my last trip to Lundy : Click to go large - https://markstothard.photography/20230620

Come and join me on Lundy this Autumn - https://markstothard.photography/lundy

#lundy #coastline

Is it an anchored yacht somewhere in the Med, or the Caribbean? No, its anchored off #Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel #Sailing #MilfordHaven #Devon

An anchored yacht on a lush blue sea off Lundy Island on a sunny day

Sunset over Lundy island

#Monochrome #streetphotography #monoart #blackandwhitephoto #blackandwhite #photography #bw #landscape #beach #devon #lundy

I was in search of #music I found this #musicalSpeech #welsh #lundy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001jtls?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Dived by #RossKemp on the #Sky #History #ShipWreck #Treasure #Hunter programme, the PSS Iona II was a Confederate #gun #runner during the American Civil War (1861-1865). Lost in 1864, today she’s a #protected #wreck off #Lundy with a #unique #story to tell. Spaces are available to #dive the #ship on 3rd & 4th June.