Thanks for this one - an atmospheric landscape!

Thanks for these. Very autumnal!

You’ll have take it up with the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project then.

I’ve had the same number for 24 years now. I have only ever had a handful of spam calls in total over that time.

I probably get one a month or so on my work number.

Basically all of them.

A quick skim shows me that the only people who have called me this so far this year are:

• Doctor
• Dentist
• Sister
• Wife
• Close friend

I expect that this would be much the same for last year too.

I have no reason not to speak to any of these.

Some great shots here - thanks for submitting!

More appropriate to early April than early September, I think, but I’ll allow this one.

Doctor who (2005) s01e07 - Kronkburgers on Satellite 5 in the opening scenes.

Looks like it:

with most of our woodlands, we will be hosting year-round volunteering and community events, enabling people to enjoy, learn about, and connect with nature," Tom shares. These events will offer opportunities for people to get involved in the project, whether through tree planting, wildlife monitoring, or participating in educational programs.

The link to get involved is here.

Excluding pretty much everything that I saw as a kid - when you go into basically everything blind - it would be After Hours (1985). I either hadn’t read anything about it or hadn’t been paying attention. Standing outside the cinema, I just saw that it was by Scorsese and went in.

I still think that it is one of his most under-appreciated films. And I loved the Ted Lasso homage, combining it with the Divine Comedy.

This isn’t related to the UK, so doesn’t really fit in this community: UK Nature and Environment.

As the article about the donations, linked to within this article, says:

“Of course, the company responsible should pay, but the timing and outcome of the investigation by the Environment Agency (EA) is uncertain, and we must act now to protect nature as best we can.”

I was at a long-term beaver reintroduction site earlier this year. It is official, well managed and has been going for a couple of decades or more now. This topic came up and I got the impression that they had a pretty good idea who had released some unofficially at at least one other spot in the area.

Although well managed, the fences at this site - as any other - do get damaged from time to time and there are ‘escapes’. But there are a good number of people who have been involved in the project over the years and a lot of them have very different views to the government on how releases should be handled. I think that some of the accidental ‘escapes’ had assistance - and transport.

They certainly are moving to the cities, but the studies - at least the ones that I have seen details of - have included that. They are still in decline overall.

This evening: pizza and a film - Breaking Away (1979)
Tomorrow - gardening, then off to a medieval feast at a local museum
Sunday - probably out for a hike somewhere, then a waterway bat survey in the evening