Andy Gell
@andygell
#Yorkshire #birdwatching (especially raptors) and occasional #phonescoping. Art,Space and other stuff. Proud Manxman 🇮🇲 living in God's own county. Former RAF & airline pilot. Location:
Visited St Wendreda's church today after listening to the Harrier Angels (below) a few months ago. 118 angels with Marsh Harrier wings and a rare double hammerbeam roof. An amazing sight and well worth the detour. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
A night of solar related science topics ahead organised by @quantum-sauce.bsky.social sat under the glow of Helios a 6m diameter representation of our Sun. wxwakefield.co.uk/Whats-On/Det...
Blakey ridge with purple heather trimming was superb but seeing #swifts flying in the small #Yorkshire villages were the highlights of today's 🏍 ride.
Ship steel plate #portal. Aire valley view now obscured by tree growth. Sculpter: Michael Lyons 1943-2019 @simonguy.bsky.social
The 1st #phonescoping video with my new phone. A family of Kestrels that nested in an abandoned room in a Leeds tower block. #raptors #Yorkshirebirding
60 million stars at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy. Largest and most detailed visible light image ever taken of that region. #Space #astronomy 📷ESA Euclid
As a raptor geek an Eagle trumps three lions any day. I'm Manx 🇮🇲 not English.
I was part of the art tech team setting up the Magic Show exhibition at Sunny Bank Mills. Featuring work by artists with disabilities and neurodiverergence. It's colourful and joyous, come and visit if you can.
Coincidentally, the Ai Weiwei exhibition at Aviva Studios has The Great Wave off Kanagawa made with Chinese Lego and migrants in rubber dinghies replace the Japanese fisherman in boats. Amazing exhibition.
The Black Kite or “Tobi” トビ as it is known in Japanese.Woodblock print by Utagawa Hiroshige. Seen at the Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige exhibition at the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester. #BirdsinArt #Raptors
I've been watching #Peregrines today in the Avon Gorge. I've become accustomed to seeing them in an urban setting around the chimneys, spires and mills of West #Yorkshire so this feels weird.
Stunning etchings by Leeds born artist Norman Ackroyd. Exhibition of his work is on in Bath. #art #Yorkshire www.victoriagal.org.uk/event/norman...
16 hrs in a car for a few ticks and a bit of togging📷. Twitchers🤦🏻♂️ #lowcarbonbirding
I'll admit that choosing a beer based on an image of raptors is ridiculous but it was an inspired choice. If you're trying to sell me anything you know what to do.
Went to see the Peregrines at Lister Mill and Dalton Mill. 2 juv and both parents seen at both sites. Stretching, preening and naughty cable chewing. Buzzard seen off at Lister by the male. Lots of aerial action I failed to capture. Well worth a visit soon if you're local. @leedsbirder.bsky.social
My Golden Eagle sculpture now sits on a plinth of Lewisian gneiss. I found the rock on Harris in the #OuterHebrides where I was also fortunate to see two Golden Eagles and a dozen Sea Eagles. #BirdsinArt #raptors
I have no expertise or interest in gulls but this is what Obsidentify App thinks.
"No, I'm a dinosaur watcher"* *my new response to anyone calling me a Twitcher. Looking forward to reading this by @stevebrusatte.bsky.social #birds #Booksky #BooksofBluesky