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The Last Apple.
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Along Troon shore, stared rainy and cold, got a little warmer and changed to dull. Lots of dog walkers. But I saw quite a few birds. Greenfinch, stonechats & linnets on the dune side. Turnstone, sanderling and redshank at the edge of the sea. Took blurry photos of them all. Good enough for id & iNaturalist. Also a small dead porpoise washed up on the sand.
Walked part of the Finlas Loop yesterday. Sparking hill day, snow. A lot of deer. Deer seem less inclined to run off in the winter. Fox track all over. A glimpse of an eagle, later watched for 10-15 minutes as it circled back and forth along the skyline above.
map, photos & notes: walkmap
Winter Flora along the Forth & Clyde Canal.
Had a walk along the Forth & Clyde this afternoon. Weather mild & gray.
Accidental Focus
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The Advent calendar in Glow Blogs has now 15 wee activities for mid-upper primary. 5 minutes of Christmas fun or a brain break for each day. New ones appear at 1 minute past midnight.
I have learnt a bit about the Site Editor when making the Calendar page. I used the new, to Glow, Grid Block. Each grid contains a group with a display post shortcode. The Display posts plugin allows me to show a thumbnail for the post published on a particular day. If there are no posts it just shows text of my choice. In this case ‘wait for the date’. The posts are queued up by scheduling.
There is an Advent Calendar in H5P itself, but I like the display post approach.
Each post has a simple H5P activity. Matching games, quizzes and the like.The Site Editor in Glow blogs is a really powerful tool for creating different looks. I’ve enjoyed testing the cover block a bit this weekend.
Chat GPT’s geography is a bit off.
Somewhat inspired by @eclectech. I was looking at frost with my class one child noticed the likeness to people so I had to add eyes.
That is the way the Google Cookie Crumbles. A good example for my class to look past the first results.
Warm dull with a bit of drizzle this morning. Brightened by a charm of goldfinch feeding on burdock. A couple of minutes later excitement when a crow chased a sparrow hawk overhead.
Greenside Reservoir Late Afternoon (quarter past 3). Saw quite a few fieldfares on the way up the path.
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I took a rather dull photos of some starlings in a bare tree yesterday. I did like the shapes, so:
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Having coffee by the trig point, heard some ravens and went to look over the steep side. Below a hen harrier took off, curved and headed off over the moor. Blurry photo, clear memory.
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Visit to the V&A Dundee. Amazing building. These photos taken on Monday Evening. Went to the Kimono exhibition the next day.
We got great weather yesterday at the Japanese Garden, Cowden. A few more photos Japanese Garden, Cowden | Flickr.
Large Dragonfly at the Japanese Garden. I wasnot sure what it was so uploaded to iNaturalist: Common Hawker (Aeshna juncea) from Clackmannanshire, UK on 14 October, 2024 at 01:41 PM by John Johnston · iNaturalist. Surly the last I see this year?
I enjoy seeing it at the end of the working day. I won’t see this one for a week as the October week holiday starts.