John Lowe

@SandersonJim Did it live up to expectations?

@SandersonJim @itvpeston @Peston @MOFA_Taiwan Why is anybody reporting on anything Liz Truss does?

The PM is due to head out to Japan for the G7 tomorrow ✈️ But his predecessor Liz Truss has already landed in Taiwan ahead of a speech she is making 👀 Time for a caption contest? 🤔 Comment below ⬇️ (📸 from @MOFA_Taiwan) #Peston

@pgilman1962 @billgorton3 @MichaelNaden1 @stevesealimages Thanks Phil - I really enjoyed it.

#CAWOSbirding Another cracking #patchbirding walk around chelford farmland & quarry with @billgorton3 @MichaelNaden1 @JohnLoweMottram highlights Bar-wit, Willow tit, Gropper (heard), 8+yellow wagtails, skylarks, reed bunts. 40+spp images courtesy of @stevesealimages

@pgilman1962 @ChrisHarris_86 @stevesealimages Thanks - I plan to join you if that’s okay?

@JohnLoweMottram @ChrisHarris_86 @stevesealimages Hi John, we meet at the lay-by next to the entrance to Mere farm quarry, SK10-3LG. Most Sunday mornings at 11am. Yesterday evening there was two wheatear on patch as well.

#CAWOSbirding We are out #patchbirding chelford farmland & quarries again on Sunday morning at 11, usual meeting spot. Hopefully yellow wagtails, linnet, skylark, willow tit & no doubt a few surprises. Images courtesy of @stevesealimages

@DavidWalsh22 My money is on Whitethroat…

The middle week of April is usually the most exciting of the year for me in Belstead Brook Park as the summer migrants return in quick succession. Found the first Sedge Warbler this morning, my equal earliest ever. Which of Whitethroat, Nightingale or Reed Warbler will be next?!?

@ed_keeble @brame99 I expect they will be coming my way sometime soon? There are only a few at Woolston atm.

Now it feels like spring- plodding along the Orwell this AM looking for scoter when @brame99 sent a pair of BNGs over from the north shore to keep me amused. Up periscope every time a Herring Gull went over.

@scally_ray @DalerRowney Common = Mealy?

COMMON REDPOLL - another for 'The Birds of Sheffield' watercolour and some gouache on @DalerRowney block, #birdart #birds #watercolour #Sketching

@DavidWalsh22 There is still time for 104!

Still full of cold, but pleased I made the effort to get out this pm. Following a tip-off about a Red-breasted Merganser at Bourne Bridge I spent an unforgettable hour there seeing it then Ringed Plover: both patch lifers. So all time patch list now 130 and year list up to 103.

@DavidWalsh22 @GreenwaysProj @SuffolkBirdGrp @MisterJamesP8 @Reece77321689 @njvipond @WildIpswich There is still time for 102! I feel a Waxwing coming on…

Nice when a plan works. Walked 2.5km to the highest spot in Belstead Brook Park hoping for Lapwings moving ahead of the arriving weather front. Result! Total of 120, in five flocks. My first patch sightings since 2012 and, more importantly, species #101 for 2022, a new record.

@SandersonJim @ModernBritain I have struggled and failed to read what appears to be the agent’s board on the tower in the background. I’m guessing Healey & Baker…

Market Way, Coventry in 1961.

@birdbrainuk @_OSME This is from the fellow we met at Sizewell. I thought you might appreciate some more pipits!

Long-billed Pipit showing well at Wamm Farms, UAE yesterday. Easier in the winter than the summer. Richard's Pipits and lots of Tawny Pipits were present. Both Eurasian Skylarks (the eastern types) and Oriental Skylark were present, vocally more confusing than visually @_OSME

@SandersonJim @GBNEWS @markwhiteTV I have done it many times in a small boat, albeit not an inflatable. It is not perilous in half decent weather conditions, although commercial shipping can be a worry.

A staggering 2,225 people have made the perilous journey in the past three days, reports @markwhiteTV gbnews.uk/news/out-of-co…

@SandersonJim @DailyMailUK In that case it must be excellent! I have a robot lawnmower that I am very pleased with - money well spent!

Cleaning hospital ROBOT branded 'useless' by frustrated staff trib.al/sAp0vTK

@SandersonJim @soult The highest Zone A rate that I know of in Merseyway was £181.50 psf in 2008. My most recent settlement is at a Zone A rate of less than £50.00 psf. A dramatic decline!

@SandersonJim @soult Or hasten it’s demise with over rented properties and gifting the landlords of their other properties with the ideal comparables to crank up the rents for the rest of their portfolio…

While exploring a new high street it's always interesting to track down the old Woolworths. This one in #Ilford High Road is pure Woolies in its handsome cinema-style frontage, and traded at 118-122 High Road from about 1913 until 1983. #networknortheast

@SandersonJim @snowangelmrsp That is to be cherished! They are one of the UK’s most rapidly declining species, mainly due to diminishing nest sites from ‘better’ building maintenance.

Is somebody able to ID this moth for me please?

Searching for the already departed White Tailed Lapwing was deeply frustrating today, but a moulting Garganey and BNGs feeding their now quite large chicks were some consolation.

@Gertcorfield The chat at Woolston today was that this morning’s report was erroneous. Nobody present had seen the bird, including people who were there when it was allegedly seen, and nobody knew who made the report, but who knows….