Heat.

Same here, 5oC dull, dreary and drizzling in the air
 
G.K.Jnr. said:
"We finally had our gas re-connected last night at 23-20
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G.K.Jnr. said:
normally try to hit the sack around 21-30ish as I like to be up & about by around 04-00, I don't have to but I just like to be up & about fairly early"
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I was the same when I was working, to miss the traffic on the 100 mile journey to Norfolk.
Now I'm retired I've reverted to my preferred sleep cycle.
( I hate mornings)
Now its always well passed midnight, sometimes 2-3 hours later, before I turn in.
And I'd quite forgotten that there was 2 4 O'clocks in a day :D
 
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Cobra said:
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I was the same when I was working, to miss the traffic on the 100 mile journey to Norfolk.
Now I'm retired I've reverted to my preferred sleep cycle.
( I hate mornings)
Now its always well passed midnight, sometimes 2-3 hours later, before I turn in.
And I'd quite forgotten that there was 2 4 O'clocks in a day :D
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The only paid work I do these days is I have quite a few YouTube vids on the go with a healthy following, I use a Stage Name for those so as to get honest opinions from other places and the members of TP who follow me. I also own a photo agency (mainly motor sport) which brings in a healthy income without too much work.
 
It's 3°C outside just now but even indoors, it feels cold. Thermostat currently saying 18.5°C, so unless I turn it up, it won't come on as it's set to 18°C. Odd.

I felt cold in the workshop today too.

It's a very damp and bleak evening, not inspiring to go outside in. Not windy though. I'll walk 'Mutley', have dinner, may indulge in a couple of beers as it's not a school night and my feet will be up.
 
Damp and cool here - 4 degrees at 5.30pm and damping - but 18.5 degrees inside with the log burner going tonight. At least it's just over 50% humidity.
 
JohnC6 said:
You'll have to explain that. I've always written..eg 5C..11C etc. What should I have written ?
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I suppose if one were to nit-pick (not something you would EVER find happen on TP!) then "The abbreviate of Celsius is to °C" :LOL:
What you wrote is fine and perfectly understandable, I just felt more comfortable, possibly because I am a scientist with a little inclination towards quality standards, writing Celsius. The QC nit-picky side would demand that you either wrote °C OR Celsius (this is the same side that talks about storing things in the fridge at 2-8°C, not 4°C).

Please just take it as a well intentioned bit of fun.
 
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2-C here at the moment, dull and no wind but dry. According to the weather forecast it's supposed to brighten up later.
 
Been for a dark start walk, 2°C, Damp and Grey. No rain :banana:

Still no Barnie or Hares, Chinese water deer are playing in the mud, large group of Lapwings have moved in.

Saw group of 3 Goshawks being 'walked', apperently they use them for hunting here now, could explain the lack of Rabbit & Hare and the feather piles.

Just need to find them flying with my camera now :D

Sorry for waffling...
 
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Saw group of 3 Goshawks being 'walked', apperently they use them for hunting here now,
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Cool. You have plenty of open land there for them.
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could explain the lack of Rabbit & Hare and the feather piles.
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Most likely, but it depends on how often they are being flown, generally they only take one per day.
The rest will be very wary.

4oC and mostly cloudy here. Dry and no wind for a change.
 
Just catching up with the day and we have 4°C, it's sunny with broken cloud, breezy but not bad. Heating came on a few times overnight.


On the Goshawk theme, we had them locally up until a few years ago. They may still be around and just not seen recently, that is my hope. I am sure I saw one during the first lockdown, in a tree. It wasn't a Buzzard and could only really have been a Goshawk, given its size. I couldn't ID for sure as the sun was just behind it.
 
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Cool. You have plenty of open land there for them.

Most likely, but it depends on how often they are being flown, generally they only take one per day.
The rest will be very wary.
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It was a sight to see, plenty of space, we were told they are trained to hunt as a team, 3 hrs everyday from what I understood. Just need to track them :LOL:

To be honest, I think the weather/flooded fields and the shooting season isn't helping with wildlife spotting :)
 
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we were told they are trained to hunt as a team,
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I'm surprised as they try and kill anything and anyone.
The only BoPs that fly successfully as a cast (group) are Harris Hawks.
The they live in a family group, the older off spring teach their younger siblings to hunt.
Once the older ones mature they leave the family group, leaving the younger ones to then train the next batch.
The circle of life and all that.

I took this from someone I know, they bought a mal-imprint.
It took a lot of work to get it to behave, but I got there in the end.


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I can see the "think" bubble - "You peck at me, I'll bite you!"
 
At a local BoP centre a few (probably 20 or so!) years ago, an eagle "got" the handler on the lip. Luckily, it was a young bird so wasn't on the public handling list - it was a flying day and Mrs Nod was doing the flying.
 
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I'm surprised as they try and kill anything and anyone.
The only BoPs that fly successfully as a cast (group) are Harris Hawks.
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This has got me thinking now, I'm wondering if there was some confusion in the quick chat I had with someone and Harris Hawks were the ones flown as a cast not the Goshawks. (a few people were there, some had a strange posh country twang to the voice my common ears struggle with :LOL:)
 
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This has got me thinking now, I'm wondering if there was some confusion in the quick chat I had with someone and Harris Hawks were the ones flown as a cast not the Goshawks. (a few people were there, some had a strange posh country twang to the voice my common ears struggle with :LOL:)
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It's most likely to have been the HH, TBH
 
Alexa says (so it's true) that it's 2°C. It feels much colder than that and there is a light frost on the cars, the grass is crispy too. Lovely night though, not a cloud and next to no wind.

I am though, happy and appreciative to be in a cosy living room.
 
ancient_mariner said:
I suppose if one were to nit-pick (not something you would EVER find happen on TP!) then "The abbreviate of Celsius is to °C" :LOL:
What you wrote is fine and perfectly understandable, I just felt more comfortable, possibly because I am a scientist with a little inclination towards quality standards, writing Celsius. The QC nit-picky side would demand that you either wrote °C OR Celsius (this is the same side that talks about storing things in the fridge at 2-8°C, not 4°C).

Please just take it as a well intentioned bit of fun.
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My Bold....Absolutely.. :) (y)
 
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I'm surprised as they try and kill anything and anyone.
The only BoPs that fly successfully as a cast (group) are Harris Hawks.
The they live in a family group, the older off spring teach their younger siblings to hunt.
Once the older ones mature they leave the family group, leaving the younger ones to then train the next batch.
The circle of life and all that.

I took this from someone I know, they bought a mal-imprint.
It took a lot of work to get it to behave, but I got there in the end.


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Is that you ?

You mentioned the Harris Hawk. A few years ago we stayed at the Langstone Cliff Hotel,Dawlish Warren,Devon and it has large grounds and they do weddings and the like. We werf there few nights and one afternoon we were sitting out in the gardens , it was during summer, when a load of gulls suddenly appeared overhead screeching very loudly and circling. We had no idea why until a few minutes later we saw a man with a Harris Hawk on his arm talking to a group of guests about it.
 
Well it didn't brighten up but remained dry, wind increased quite a bit and it's now 1-C. So it's sack time for me now.
 
JohnC6 said:
Is that you ?
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A few years ago. Less hair & more beard. Surprisingly no forked tongue or scales :D

JohnC6 said:
We had no idea why until a few minutes later we saw a man with a Harris Hawk on his arm talking to a group of guests about it.
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HH are good for urban pigeons, but gulls rarely take any notice, you need something fast that'll attack out of the sun.
HH are lazy buggers in that respect.
But great fun hunting in woodlands,
 
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Its 3oC here, quite calm but it feels a lot colder.
 
Cobra said:
A few years ago. Less hair & more beard. Surprisingly no forked tongue or scales :D


HH are good for urban pigeons, but gulls rarely take any notice, you need something fast that'll attack out of the sun.
HH are lazy buggers in that respect.
But great fun hunting in woodlands,
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Not what I imagined. .. :)

Re the hawk. In that case maybe it wasn't a Harris Hawk,then. The gulls were actually looking down at it and flying in very tight circles and quite low over it. It was, of course, tethered to the man's wrist. The gulls didn't move away until the man and his hawk did.
 
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I see the Low pressure that is out to the SW that they said might come into the SW England and south Midlands for Tuesday isn't coming our way now so, no snow as it hit the cold air..very cold air which is coming our way from the arctic. That Low is going to travel over northern France now, tracking east.

We've still got potted pansies in flower in the back garden. Amazing.
 
2-C here at the moment (feels colder) light cloud and a gentle breeze. No rain forecast for today but higher winds are expected.
 
A chilly 3oC here no wind, but spitting with rain.
 
2°C this morning. Broken cloud and sunny spells. Just a light breeze. We had rain over night, which then froze when the skies cleared, it's like a skating rink out there. 2 types of weather worry me, high winds and this skaty stuff. I'm staying indoors until it melts.
 
Mix of bright and then cloudy here, 4 Celsius.
 
Started of 2°C Blue sky, now 4° and Grey.

Seen some Daff's in full flower already, the Snowdrops haven't even bloomed in full yet.
 
3ºC here and Alexa, via a notification, tells me it's going to snow for an hour from midnight.
 
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