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How to identify Sparrowhawks are small birds of prey. They're adapted for hunting birds in confined spaces like dense woodland, so gardens are ideal hunting grounds for them. Adult male Sparrowhawks have a bluish-grey back and wings and orangey-brown stripes on their chest and belly. Females and young birds have brown back and wings, and brown stripes underneath. Sparrowhawks have bright yellow or orangey eyes, yellow legs and talons. Females are larger than males, as with all birds of prey. The Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), also known as the northern sparrowhawk or simply the sparrowhawk, is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Adult male Eurasian sparrowhawks have bluish grey upperparts and orange-barred underparts; females and juveniles are brown above with brown barring below. The female is up to 25% larger than the male – one of the greatest size differences between the sexes in any bird species. Though it is a predator which specialises in catching woodland birds, the Eurasian sparrowhawk can be found in any habitat and often hunts garden birds in towns and cities. Males tend to take smaller birds, including tits, finches, and sparrows; females catch primarily thrushes and starlings, but are capable of killing birds weighing 500 g (18 oz) or more. The Eurasian sparrowhawk is found throughout the temperate and subtropical parts of the Old World; while birds from the northern parts of the range migrate south for winter, their southern counterparts remain resident or make dispersive movements. Eurasian sparrowhawks breed in suitable woodland of any type, with the nest, measuring up to 60 cm (24 in) across, built using twigs in a tree. Four or five pale blue, brown-spotted eggs are laid; the success of the breeding attempt is dependent on the female maintaining a high weight while the male brings her food. The chicks hatch after 33 days and fledge after 24 to 28 days. The probability of a juvenile surviving its first year is 34%, with 69% of adults surviving from one year to the next. Mortality in young males is greater than that of young females and the typical lifespan is four years. This species is now one of the most common birds of prey in Europe, although the population crashed after the Second World War. Organochlorine insecticides used to treat seeds before sowing built up in the bird population, and the concentrations in Eurasian sparrowhawks were enough to kill some outright and incapacitate others; affected birds laid eggs with fragile shells which broke during incubation. However, its population recovered after the chemicals were banned, and it is now relatively common, classified as being of least concern by BirdLife International. The Eurasian sparrowhawk's hunting behaviour has brought it into conflict with humans for hundreds of years, particularly racing pigeon owners and people rearing poultry and gamebirds. It has also been blamed for decreases in passerine populations. Studies of racing pigeon deaths found that Eurasian sparrowhawks were responsible for less than 1%. Falconers have utilised the Eurasian sparrowhawk since at least the 16th century; although the species has a reputation for being difficult to train, it is also praised for its courage. The species features in Teutonic mythology and is mentioned in works by writers including William Shakespeare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes.

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Canterbury (/ˈkæntərbəri/) is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the primate of the Church of England and the worldwide Anglican Communion owing to the importance of St Augustine, who served as the apostle to the pagan Kingdom of Kent around the turn of the 7th century. The city's cathedral became a major focus of pilgrimage following the 1170 martyrdom of Thomas Becket, although it had already been a well-trodden pilgrim destination since the murder of St Alphege by the men of King Canute in 1012. A journey of pilgrims to Becket's shrine served as the frame for Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th century classic The Canterbury Tales. Canterbury is a popular tourist destination: consistently one of the most-visited cities in the United Kingdom, the city's economy is heavily reliant upon tourism. The city has been occupied since Paleolithic times and served as the capital of the Celtic Cantiaci and Jute Kingdom of Kent. Many historical structures fill the area, including a city wall founded in Roman times and rebuilt in the 14th century, the ruins of St Augustine's Abbey and a Norman castle, and the oldest extant school in the world, the King's School. Modern additions include the Marlowe Theatre and the St Lawrence Ground, home of the Kent County Cricket Club. There is also a substantial student population, brought about by the presence of the University of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church University, the University for the Creative Arts, and the Girne American University Canterbury campus. Canterbury remains, however, a small city in terms of geographical size and population, when compared with other British cities. The Roman settlement of Durovernum Cantiacorum ("Kentish Durovernum") occupied the location of an earlier British town whose ancient British name has been reconstructed as *Durou̯ernon ("stronghold by the alder grove"), although the name is sometimes supposed to have derived from various British names for the Stour. (Medieval variants of the Roman name include Dorobernia and Dorovernia.) In Sub-Roman Britain, it was known in Old Welsh as Cair Ceint ("stronghold of Kent"). Occupied by the Jutes, it became known in Old English as Cantwareburh ("stronghold of the Kentish men"), which developed into the present name. Landmarks Canterbury Cathedral is the Mother Church of the Anglican Communion and seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Founded in 597 AD by Augustine, it forms a World Heritage Site, along with the Saxon St. Martin's Church and the ruins of St Augustine's Abbey. With one million visitors per year, it is one of the most visited places in the country. Services are held at the cathedral three or more times a day. The Roman Museum houses an in situ mosaic pavement dating from around 300 AD. Surviving structures from the Roman times include Queningate, a blocked gate in the city wall, and the Dane John Mound, once part of a Roman cemetery. The Dane John Gardens were built beside the mound in the 18th century, and a memorial was placed on the mound's summit. A windmill was on the mound between 1731 and 1839. The ruins of the Norman Canterbury Castle and St Augustine's Abbey are both open to the public. The medieval St Margaret's Church now houses "The Canterbury Tales", in which life-sized character models reconstruct Geoffrey Chaucer's stories. The Westgate is now a museum relating to its history as a jail. The medieval church of St Alphege became redundant in 1982 but had a new lease of life as the Canterbury Urban Studies Centre, later renamed the Canterbury Environment Centre; the building is used by the King's School. The Old Synagogue, now the King's School Music Room, is one of only two Egyptian Revival synagogues still standing. The city centre contains many timber-framed 16th and 17th century houses, however there are far fewer than there were before the Second World War, as many were damaged during the Baedecker Blitz. Many are still standing, including the "Old Weaver's House" used by the Huguenots. St Martin's Mill is the only surviving mill out of the six known to have stood in Canterbury. It was built in 1817 and worked until 1890; it is now a house conversion. St Thomas of Canterbury Church is the only Roman Catholic church in the city and contains relics of Thomas Becket. Canterbury Heritage Museum houses many exhibits - including the Rupert Bear Museum. The Herne Bay Times has reported that the Heritage at Risk Register includes 19 listed buildings in Canterbury which need urgent repair but for which the council has insufficient funds. (Wikipedia) Canterbury [ˈkæntəbəɹɪ] (von altenglisch Cantwaraburig für „Burg (oder Stadt, Ort) der Leute von Kent“, lat. Cantuaria, veraltet im Deutschen auch Kanterberg, Kanterburg oder Kantelberg) ist eine Universitätsstadt mit 55.240 Einwohnern (2011). Sie liegt am Fluss Stour in der Grafschaft Kent im Südosten Englands und ist Sitz des Erzbischofs von Canterbury und Zentrum der Anglikanischen Kirche Englands. Canterbury soll der Sage nach 900 v. Chr. von Rudilibas angelegt und von den alten Briten Caerther oder Caerkent (Stadt von Kent) genannt worden sein. Ab 43 n. Chr. entstand an ihrer Stelle das römische Durovernum Cantiacorum (römisch: duro = „Fort“, verno = „Sumpf“), das sich zu einem Verwaltungszentrum entwickelte und das größte römische Theater Britanniens besaß; ab 200 n. Chr. wurde die Stadt mit einer Stadtmauer umgeben. Æthelberht von Kent, der ab 568 n. Chr. regierte, machte Canterbury zu seiner Residenz und nannte sie Cantwarabyrig. Nach dem Übertritt der Angelsachsen zum Christentum wurde die Stadt Sitz des Erzbischofs-Primas, dem geistlichen Oberhaupt der Kirche von England und der anglikanischen Kommunion. Die Erzbischöfe von Canterbury werden seit dem Bruch Heinrichs VIII. mit Rom vom englischen König (später britischen König) bestimmt. Der Mord an Thomas Becket ist Gegenstand in den Dramen von George Darley (1840), Alfred Tennyson (1884) und Jean Anouilh (1959) sowie in T. S. Eliots Theaterstück Murder in the Cathedral (1935), das im Chapter House uraufgeführt wurde und in Ken Folletts Roman Die Säulen der Erde. Die Erzählungen der Canterbury Tales (deutsch: „Canterbury-Geschichten“) des mittelalterlichen Dichters Geoffrey Chaucer sind in eine Rahmenhandlung eingebunden, die von einer Pilgergruppe auf ihrem Weg von London nach Canterbury zum Grabmal von Thomas Becket handelt. Die Themen der Erzählungen variieren und beinhalten höfische Liebe, Verrat und Habsucht. Die Genres variieren ebenso, es gibt Romanzen, bretonische Lai (kurze rhythmische Erzählungen), Predigten und Fabeln. Canterbury entwickelte sich in römischer Zeit als besagtes Durovernum Cantiacorum zu einer bedeutenden Siedlung. Nach der Christianisierung Kents wurden einige frührömische Kirchen wieder für den Gebrauch hergerichtet, so z. B. St. Martin und die damals an der Stelle der jetzigen Kathedrale befindliche Kirche. Seit jener Zeit ist Canterbury Mittelpunkt der Kirche in England und Anziehungspunkt für viele Besucher; nach der Ermordung von Thomas Becket waren das vor allem Wallfahrer. Im 12. Jahrhundert avancierte Canterbury zur zweitgrößten Münzstätte Englands nach London. Im 16. Jahrhundert setzte dank der Einführung der Weberei durch die Hugenotten, die als Religionsflüchtlinge vom Festland kamen, ein wirtschaftlicher Aufschwung ein. Im Jahr 1888 erhielt die Stadt Grafschaftsrechte, obwohl sie bis dahin von der Industriellen Revolution kaum berührt wurde und die Zahl der Einwohner nur geringfügig zugenommen hatte. Die Stadt blieb über lange Zeit weitgehend unverändert, wurde aber im Zweiten Weltkrieg durch die deutsche Luftwaffe bei den „Baedeker-Vergeltungsangriffen“ auf kulturell bedeutende Städte Englands im Jahr 1942, vor allem am 1. Juni, stark beschädigt. Seitdem hat sich Canterbury zu einer modernen Stadt und einem wichtigen Einkaufszentrum entwickelt, mit großem Freizeitangebot, guten Verkehrsverbindungen und vielfältigen Unterkunftsmöglichkeiten. Weil viele historische Bauwerke erhalten blieben, konnte der mittelalterliche Charakter des Stadtkerns bewahrt werden. Bemerkenswert sind außer der Kathedrale auch die vielen anderen alten Kirchenbauwerke in der Stadt. Erwähnenswert sind hier u. a. Greyfriars, St Martin’s Church und St. Dunstan's Church. Ein Großteil der Stadtmauer ist unversehrt; von den sechs alten Toren ist nur noch eins, das Westgate, aus der Zeit Richards II. erhalten; es beherbergt heute ein Museum. Am Fluss Stour entlang reihen sich die historischen Weberhäuser aneinander, und weiter flussabwärts liegen die Klöster der Blackfriars und Greyfriars aus dem 13. Jahrhundert. Canterbury bietet eine Vielzahl weiterer historischer Sehenswürdigkeiten wie den Bergfried des ehemaligen normannischen Canterbury Castles oder die normannische Treppe der King’s School. Einige von ihnen haben berühmten Dichtern und Schriftstellern als Anregung gedient. Christopher Marlowe wurde in Canterbury geboren und in St. Georg getauft. Trotz seiner engeren Bindungen an Rochester und Broadstairs wählte Charles Dickens als Schauplatz seines Romans David Copperfield Canterbury. Neben der Kathedrale von Canterbury ist auch die St Martin’s Church Weltkulturerbe. (Wikipedia)

'Christmas Kitsch'
2024 ... Hello again - Merry Christmas to my Flickr friends (I somehow forgot to bring this fellow forward last year?) ************** 2022 ... Season's Greetings! It's a long standing tradition now. All the best! ************** 2021 .... You might recognize this fellow by now. Stay safe and healthy everyone ... Merry Christmas! ************************** 2020 And yet again ... that's 10 years in a row now. A full decade of annual appearances by this very little snowman at Christmas (he is only about 10 cm's tall). He has appeared on an Irish Christmas Calendar and is available for purchase from a Dutch card company. I donated his image to the Irish charity that made the request and I was promised payment by the Dutch company that requested use of the photo but I have yet to see a dime. All the best to you and yours! Stay safe and healthy in 2021 - Happy Holidays! *************************************** 2019 Merry Christmas everyone! *************************************** 2018 He's back for yet another year wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas! ************************************** 2017 All the best to you and yours ... this photo is becoming quite 'famous' ... it's been used for a Dutch Xmas card and an Irish Xmas calendar now. 2016 Making his appearance in 2016! All the best ... 2015 One more time! Merry Christmas everyone! 2014 And here he is again ... Merry Christmas to all ... be safe and happy! *********************************** 2013 I am bringing this forward once again ... it's a tradition now 🙂 All the best in 2014 ... Merry Christmas! **************************************** 2012 I am too lazy this year to set up anything to photograph that suits the holiday spirit so I will take the easy way out and bring forward a previous year's offering. In spite of my laziness, I sincerely wish everyone safe and happy holidays ... I hope the new year brings good things for all ... as Lord Alfred Tennyson said: "Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true." I will catch up with your photostreams in a few days. *********************************** 2011 I had great fun yesterday for an hour photographing Christmas miniatures - our home looks a wee bit like a Christmas gift shop as I write this ... no thanks to Rosa, the resident Christmas Elf! This fellow is quite small but very photogenic I think and has made a special request to be viewed large on black - press L on your keyboard to make him happy. The background is some equally kitschy wrapping paper that refracts the light in glorious ways ... my best wishes to all of my Flickr friends for the holidays and may 2012 be a grand and great year for each of you! My attention to Flickr will be sporadic over the holidays so please accept my apologies in advance if I miss some of your great photography during the next week or so ... I shall endeavour to catch up in the new year.

It is inconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us....
who live on this third-rate planet of a third-rate sun 😉 Alfred Lord Tennyson HMM! HSS! Climate Change Matters! Resist!! shrimp cocktail appetizer, Iceland Viking cruise

David Mullett 292pc Autumn Leaves By Millais Nov24 DSC05231
This is the third of four small commissions to David Mullett (aka bungalowbill71 on ebay) made in late autumn 2024. I hoped to encourage David to produce some works with more advanced features, building on his undoubted ability to cut in an assured overall interlocking style and follow a complex outline. You can see the other commissions below. David Mullett 292pc Autumn Leaves by Millais Nov24, leaf shaped whimsies. David has conserved the faces of his wife Effie's sisters in this poignant scene. This jigsaw was cut from a Pre-Raphaelite calendar. Its portrait format gave a wide white border either side which provided space for creating decorative features which comment on the painting but don't obscure it. I said that I wanted a mixture of leaf shapes in a lacy border with shaped side edges and provided a mock-up. David's jigsaw of the Sycamore Gap Tree, with its leaf-shaped whimsies showed that he could produce that shape at different sizes successfully. This was by far the most challenging of the four designs and although what David produced works reasonably well I miss the shaped edge and dropout detail I'd hoped for in that lacy border. For information about the painting: victorianweb.org/painting/millais/paintings/7.html 1855-6. The very specific story-telling that plays such a part in his paintings of the early-1850s is replaced by a concern for creating a mood and suggesting more universal ideas. The season, the deadleaves, the smokeand the sunset are allimages of transcience, reminders that all things must pass. It is a setting redolent of decay and death that makes us conscious that the girls in the foreground, for all their youth and beauty, must inevitably go through the same processes. The apple held by the little on the right is an emblem of autumn but may also intended to recall the Original Sin that made mankind subject to mortality. . . .'Autumn Leaves' . . . . has a solemn, almost sacremental feeling that one might call religious. . . . The ideas of autumn as inducing what Millais calls "the deepest idea of religious reflection" comes not [as his PRB brother F. G. Stephens suggested] from the Psalms or any other part of the Bible but from contemporary English poetry" (139). According to Warner, the painter was reading Tennyson's The Princess while working on the painting, "and his thoughts echo the poet's as expressed in the well-known song in Part IV: Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean. Tearsfrom the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn-fields, And thinking on the days that are no more. "Millais," Warner continues, "visited Tennyson in November 1854" and his experience "of helping sweepup and burn dead leaves" at the poet's home inspired the painting.

All That Remains
An agave flowers once in its life, building a grand stalk that can reach 20 feet or more into the sky; from this come seeds, and eventually scores of little pups that give rise to the next generation. The parent, however, then senesces and dies. This agave stump is all that remains of a once majestic plant. Yet, to me it seems oddly animated by a personality that is, if not inspiring, at least familiar. Like an old and overweight relative that declines to leave the couch, it sits plopped in its spot, as if glued to a television just beyond our field of view. But perhaps we should not be too critical - at the end of a productive life, some self-satisfied indolence is to be expected. Tennyson would not have approved, but one cannot hold an agave to the standards of Ulysses. Shot with a Mamiya 6 Mamiya 6 G 150mm f/4.5 L lens Kentmere Pan 100 film Shot at EI 200, pushed +1 Developed in the Ego Lab using XTOL (1:1, 9:33 min, agitated each minute at 78F) Scanned on a Coolscan 9000ED

Oak woodland by Bassenthwaite Lake.
The track leads to St. Begas' Church, to the right behind the large tree. Very close to the spot that inspired Alfred Tennyson with his poem Morte d' Arthur. Arthur, dying, bids Sir Bedivere cast Excalibur into the mere which he reluctantly does on his third attempt. So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful. And caught him by the hilt, ...

Le Jour ni l’Heure 6902 : autoportrait à soixante-dix-huit ans, quatre mois et huit jours, Plieux, miroir de la bibliothèque, mercredi 18 décembre 2024, 23:19:05
Mercredi 18 décembre 2024. Semaine 51, Saint Gatien — 353/13. Plieux. Assez bien dormi, réveillé à huit heures sur un rêve archéologico-immobilier, très intéressant, mais dont j’ai malheureusement tout oublié (l’un de mes principaux fournisseurs de rêves, ce sont les (innombrables) envois gratuits de Belles Demeures. Le Jour ni l’Heure, autoportrait de la nuit et Chronique du château d’eau — Fenêtre de la bibliothèque, Plieux, lundi 16 décembre 2024, 08:55:26. Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine… Assez forte production X, plaisante et sérieuse, mais cette belle agitation est un peu gâchée par un troll de niveau au moins troisième année, un M. Stéphane Domaracki, qui se dit professeur à Tachkent ou quelque part par là et se donne pour dessein explicite de me rendre fou, à quoi il parviendrait peut-être s’il ne témoignait, Dieu merci, d’une bassesse et d’une vulgarité qui gâchent tous ses effets : allusion à mon âge et gracieux souhait pour moi d’un AVC pour en finir. Colossal retard, pas seulement à cause de lui. Le Jour ni l’Heure : Marie Laurencin, 1883-1956, Jeannot Salmon, 1923, dét., musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris, vendredi 29 novembre 2014, 15:29:14 ; L’Ombre d’Orphée — Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, vendredi 29 novembre 2024, 15:37:54. 50. 50. 12. 12. 100. 25. 25. 25. 25. György Ligeti, premier quatuor à cordes, “Métamorphoses nocturnes”, 1954. Bain un peu précipité, avec toutefois lecture par Pierre de Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume IV, chapitre XLIII, esquisse (enfin) d’un portrait de Justinien. Rendez-vous à quatre heures avec Bertrand Dellinger, qui arrive porteur d’un somptueux panier de Noël, débordant de victuailles et de vins (très) fins (dont un Saint-Émilion du vingtième siècle). Promenade sur le plateau avec lui, Pierre et le chien Baloo, il nous quitte au portillon au retour. Le châle pour ma sœur est bien arrivé, mais il est infiniment plus léger que je ne l’avais imaginé, au poids (je n’ai pas ouvert le paquet), c’est plus une étole purement décorative qu’un shawl. Le Jour ni l’Heure, suite : Harriet Backer, 1845-1932, Intérieur du pensionnat de Nordgard, 1926-1930, coll. part., dét., exposition Backer, musée d’Orsay, Paris, samedi 30 novembre 2024, 14:49:42. Comptes : Dernière connexion le 16/12/2024 à 10h41 /// Bonjour M. CAMUS /// Avoirs Solde débiteur -1.669,18 € /// Crédits Solde débiteur -14.085,92 € /// Solde au 17 décembre 2024 -1 955,58 € /// À venir -3 107,31 € | Prévisionnel -5 062,89 /// 17/12 VIREMENT DE PAYPAL EUROPE S.A.R.L. ET CIE S.C.A MOTIF: YYW1039010730589 - REF : YYW1039010730589 +200,00 € /// 16/12 VIREMENT DE STE CIV S O F I A - MOTIF : MUL +16,46 € /// Acta avec Pierre. 19:12:59 /////// Journal (la journée de la veille). Irritation urinaire, depuis trois jours — il faudrait consulter avant mon départ mais les trois ou quatre heures qui s’y noieraient me découragent — j’attends que ça passe (c’est le cas de la dire : caillou ?). Raviolis aux cèpes et lamelles de saumon fumé avec des aubergines, très bon. Vin Meyer du château de Reihac. Poire à la vapeur avec de la gelée de mûres. Vu Benediction, Les Carnets de Siegfried, 2022, de Terence Davies, avec Jack Lowden et Peter Capaldi dans le rôle de Siegfried Sassoon jeune et vieux, et Matthew Tennyson (8) dans celui (mineur) de Wilfried Owen. Journal, complétion, relecture, mise en ligne (couché à une heure).

Design for the Moxon Tennyson - The Palace of Art (King Arthurs and the Weepng Queens), Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1856-57. Victorian Radicals exhibition, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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Juvenile SparrowHawk
How to identify Sparrowhawks are small birds of prey. They're adapted for hunting birds in confined spaces like dense woodland, so gardens are ideal hunting grounds for them. Adult male Sparrowhawks have a bluish-grey back and wings and orangey-brown stripes on their chest and belly. Females and young birds have brown back and wings, and brown stripes underneath. Sparrowhawks have bright yellow or orangey eyes, yellow legs and talons. Females are larger than males, as with all birds of prey. The Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus), also known as the northern sparrowhawk or simply the sparrowhawk, is a small bird of prey in the family Accipitridae. Adult male Eurasian sparrowhawks have bluish grey upperparts and orange-barred underparts; females and juveniles are brown above with brown barring below. The female is up to 25% larger than the male – one of the greatest size differences between the sexes in any bird species. Though it is a predator which specialises in catching woodland birds, the Eurasian sparrowhawk can be found in any habitat and often hunts garden birds in towns and cities. Males tend to take smaller birds, including tits, finches, and sparrows; females catch primarily thrushes and starlings, but are capable of killing birds weighing 500 g (18 oz) or more. The Eurasian sparrowhawk is found throughout the temperate and subtropical parts of the Old World; while birds from the northern parts of the range migrate south for winter, their southern counterparts remain resident or make dispersive movements. Eurasian sparrowhawks breed in suitable woodland of any type, with the nest, measuring up to 60 cm (24 in) across, built using twigs in a tree. Four or five pale blue, brown-spotted eggs are laid; the success of the breeding attempt is dependent on the female maintaining a high weight while the male brings her food. The chicks hatch after 33 days and fledge after 24 to 28 days. The probability of a juvenile surviving its first year is 34%, with 69% of adults surviving from one year to the next. Mortality in young males is greater than that of young females and the typical lifespan is four years. This species is now one of the most common birds of prey in Europe, although the population crashed after the Second World War. Organochlorine insecticides used to treat seeds before sowing built up in the bird population, and the concentrations in Eurasian sparrowhawks were enough to kill some outright and incapacitate others; affected birds laid eggs with fragile shells which broke during incubation. However, its population recovered after the chemicals were banned, and it is now relatively common, classified as being of least concern by BirdLife International. The Eurasian sparrowhawk's hunting behaviour has brought it into conflict with humans for hundreds of years, particularly racing pigeon owners and people rearing poultry and gamebirds. It has also been blamed for decreases in passerine populations. Studies of racing pigeon deaths found that Eurasian sparrowhawks were responsible for less than 1%. Falconers have utilised the Eurasian sparrowhawk since at least the 16th century; although the species has a reputation for being difficult to train, it is also praised for its courage. The species features in Teutonic mythology and is mentioned in works by writers including William Shakespeare, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Ted Hughes.

Tennyson King
Great singer from HongKong/ Canada. Performing at The Bug last night youtu.be/Ocw_SFxLKa4?si=pTVYRqf7Z78POlKs

Tennyson and guitar
Tennyson King Great singer from HongKong/ Canada. Performing at The Bug last night youtu.be/Ocw_SFxLKa4?si=pTVYRqf7Z78POlKs

Tennyson singing
Great singer from HongKong/ Canada. Performing at The Bug last night youtu.be/Ocw_SFxLKa4?si=pTVYRqf7Z78POlKs

1954 Ford Zephyr Six MK I Saloon
Originally issued by Brooklin Models in their Lansdowne Range. It is 1:43 scale and crafted in white metal. The model has been reworked and modified by Roger Tennyson at Crossway Models. It is a 1 of 1 prototype. LDM 07/CS 005 The 690th Brooklin model to join my collection and was added in April 2023.