Perry Smale

@def_leppar20044 Leppard.

Def Leppard or Led Zeppelin? 🎸🎶

@ChrisJo93299298 @theiaincameron 😳

@SmalePerry @theiaincameron Surely it's a construct not a concept.

Here is a clear and jargon-free (coughs) description of the differences between, Britain, Great Britain, the U.K., Ireland, and the British Isles. 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 Scotland, England, and Wales make up Britain (or Great Britain). This is the larger of the two islands. The United Kingdom (UK) is Britain and a country of the island of Ireland (Northern Ireland) together. Ireland is, as we have said, the other island. But Ireland itself is made up of two countries: The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. This odd situation is compounded by a good many Northern Ireland residents who insist on calling themselves British. (We’ll leave the politics of that out of this post…) Both the islands of Ireland and Britain combined are called the British Isles in a geographic sense. But this framing is contested by many Irish residents, who dislike the term British, for exactly the same reason that some Northern Irish folk love it. Following so far? Scotland, England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland all have individual national soccer teams. In rugby, however, Ireland play as one team. Confused? It gets worse. At the Olympics, athletes from Northern Ireland can represent Team Ireland or Team Great Britain (there is no U.K. Olympic team). Oh, and let us not forget the Isle of Man. Despite being slap-bang in the middle of Northern Ireland and Great Britain, it doesn’t form part of the U.K., but it is in the British Isles. Happy to have cleared all that up.

@DevonBirder You counting those Roger?

My first ever visit to Salisbury Plain to see the Great Bustards. At 14.00 19 were giving excellent scope views. A bit too far for my phone though

@Wildwood_photos Only ever heard them there, you get better views Salisbury Plain if you know where to go.

3 Stone Curlew at Winterbourne downs this morning though very distant.

@ChrisJo93299298 @theiaincameron But the island of Ireland is most definitely part of the archipelago, if you will, of British Isles..however much they hate this concept.

@theiaincameron The only thing that be concluded is that this is area is a minefield. British Isles is not a term used in Republic of Ireland for example.

@theiaincameron Always thought the Channel Islands came under British Isles even though they aren't U.K.🤔

@dbbirding "Disappointed " to see 2 Large Tortoiseshells...🤔🤪

Spent 2.5hrs in Faggs Wood & Birchett Wood yesterday (Friday) pm in what seemed like good conditions. Disappointed to see only 2 Large Tortiseshells in Faggs and none in Birchett. Only 1 settled for photos. No Brimstones but many Peacocks, Commas & Dark Edge Beeflies. 1 of 2.

@myeyemyview I give you the RSPB.🙄😬😬😬

RSPB Geltsdale today. Goodness knows what this reserve is about, they've removed all the wire fences that small birds used to sit on. They've put these very large stones on the footpaths and removed the seed feeder cage. Very few small birds and a waste of time for photos

@Josiejo777 Fantastic, Jo🥰

@SmalePerry I got 10 woop woop!!

🧠 Quiz of the Day - Mar 21 ⬜ 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 🟩 ⬜ 🟩 ⬜ 🟩 Score: 7/10 Think you can do better? quizoftheday.co.uk

@bagshaw2112 1994.

THE CHARTS ARE BACK ❤️❤️ What year ?? Please repost so others can play ! A nice UK chart .what year is it from Try to do it without using google or Grok . . #music #popchart #Saturday

@theiaincameron Western most point in UK would surely be in Northern Ireland...??🤔

Somewhat counter-intuitively, Edinburgh is farther west than Bristol, and Scotland has the westernmost point in the UK (Ardnamurchan).

@MbarkCherguia Final Destination

What do you call this? 😏

@The_real_Fenris 1 and 6

What are you choosing? 💊

@Stormvogel99 Saw my first of this year yesterday, also singing male.

A Dartford Warbler in Berkshire.Elusive and enigmatic as ever. Story related at blackaudibirding.blogspot.com

@PollSter_Mike1 Super Trouper, Eagle, The Day before you came, Angel Eyes, Summer Night City, Gimme Gimme Gimme...where do I stop?

@SmalePerry What’s better?

Take a Chance on Me might not be the best song by ABBA, or, is it? You tell me!

@HeavyMetalSvet Aces High!🤘🤘🤘

There goes the siren that warns of the air raid Then comes the sound of the guns sending flak Out for the scramble, we've got to get airborne Got to get up for the coming attack🎧

@s4r4h_l Wall, yes..looks the same as ours anyway.

So my lovely friend is on holiday in Dubrovnik, and stopped to take a photo of this lovely #butterfly for me! 😍🤩🎉🦋 Does anyone know if it's called Wall brown like in the UK or does it have another name in Croatia? #butterflies

@Elizabeth241072 I thought all those years a woman sang it.

Hi Ho Silver was actually my fav song of 1986 ! #TOTP