It is beginning to sound like spring.
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Metrological spring evening in Victoria Park; a storm toppled tree still blossoms; the first frog spawn in the small pond; feels like there might be frost tonight.
It was quite sunny yesterday as I left work. Watched this tree bumblebee going around the crocus.
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Warm sunny, for February, day. River running brown and high. I spent a few minutes sitting, watching a kingfisher across the river. Dived a few times and came up lucky a couple. One wee fish took a bit of subduing and was bashed off a branch a few times.
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Another B&W image, testing pootlephotos.com
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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.
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Winter Flora along the Forth & Clyde Canal.
Had a walk along the Forth & Clyde this afternoon. Weather mild & gray.
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H5P Christmas Advent in Glow Blogs
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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