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Hairy Neil

@rovingrollo.bsky.social

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Retired. Interested in Landscape and Nature Photography, Climate Change, Ecology, History. Left Leaning. Member of #EastCoastKin Now working on a blog about my travels and eco-gardening https://rovingrollo.co.uk No Alt Text, No repost - Sorry.

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Hairy Neil @rovingrollo.bsky.social · Apr 30

I've finally managed to finish the next instalment of our Eco-Gardening blog. 🌱

I hope you enjoy reading it, feedback always welcome.

#Gardening #Eco-Gardening #Nature #Photography #Garden #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin

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In an English Country Garden - April 2025 Update

A tale of two rank amateurs attempting to work with Nature. April short of Showers

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Marjo Slingerland-Boks @marjosl.bsky.social · 2h

Apologies for the second photo this day @alan678.bsky.social for #BirdOfTheDay #Beakfull a lovely great tit with a beakfull with the hair from our dog and few years back✨️❤️
#EastCoastKin #mobilephonephotography #birds #spring

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Hairy Neil @rovingrollo.bsky.social · 10m

Beautiful 😍

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Lizzie Wallis DPAGB, EFIAP, BPE3* @lizziewallis.bsky.social · 1h

"... Interruptus"
A willow warbler interrupting mating damselflies on the dipping pond at Ballycroy NP, Co. Mayo, 🇮🇪
Today's #birdoftheday set by @alan678.bsky.social is #beakful
It occurred to me that if the male let go of the female, she'd have a chance of escape.
#EastCoastKin
#birdphotography

A small brown bird with white eye stripe stands on a wooden rail facing left. In its beak is a pair of mating damselflies, the male gripping the female behind the head.

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely love this 🥰

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 8h

Can we talk about an exciting fall visitor to the yard this week?: Purple Finch! #birds (1/7)

Bird that looks like a sparrow dipped in cranberry juice is perched on the edge of a bird bath.

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The Garden Jungle @thegardenjungle.bsky.social · 2h

As #Beakfull is the theme of #BirdOfTheDay today, here are a selection of our avian friends for you to enjoy #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

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Steve Carter @shieldaig.bsky.social · 29m

My other half's latest pastel pencil drawing.

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$diffractiongrating.bsky.social$

Valéry Giscard d'Estaing @diffractiongrating.bsky.social · 17h

What's going on here.

A gazebo thing with a window full of a large stack of soft toy geese

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Hairy Neil @rovingrollo.bsky.social · 25m

Thanks Alan 🌞I confess I'm rather pleased with this one 😀

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Hairy Neil @rovingrollo.bsky.social · 34m

Morning All !

@alan678.bsky.social has set today's #BirdOfTheDay theme and it is #Beakful

A puffin nest building, Isle of Lunga, #Mull, #Scotland. May 2025

#Birds #Seabirds #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin

Close up of a puffin, it is staring straight at the camera and it's colourful beak is full of small sticks and bits of dried grass.

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Hairy Neil @rovingrollo.bsky.social · 1h

Thanks Marjo 💚They are one of my favourites 🤩

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Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 5h

Good morning. Time for the #BirdOfTheDay theme and it is #Beakful , so anything in the beak from food to nest material and the alternative is #wading Good luck!! #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

A female European Stonechat with a warm orange-brown breast and a light brown head perches among green leaves, holding a few wisps of dried grass or straw in its beak. The soft, blurred background highlights the bird’s detailed plumage and the delicate strands it carries, giving a sense of nesting activity in a calm natural setting.

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Marjo Slingerland-Boks @marjosl.bsky.social · 3h

Every sunset have the promise from a new day ✨️🙏
Evening light at the Oostvaarders Plassen.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Glow #EastCoastKin #zeldenzomooigezien #mobilephonephotography #reflections #birds

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Marjo Slingerland-Boks @marjosl.bsky.social · 3h

Good morning all,
For @alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme #Beakful is here a lovely Jay on the peanuts 🥜 have a fine weekend 💛
#EastCoastKin #birds #garden #mobilephonephotography

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 5h

Russia launched its massive onslaught on 24 February 2022.
We pay tribute to the men and women who took up arms and stood to fight the Russian invaders.
Their sacrifice will never be forgotten.

RIP - Yurii Prus (21), American soldier Ethan Hertweck (21), Artem Babenko (29), Yevhen Lapchevskyi

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Hairy Neil @rovingrollo.bsky.social · 13h

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TMBtrain @hmcclaff.bsky.social · 15h

#BeeFriday Would you like to see an Icelandic bumblebee? Sure you do! Here's a pic of the only one I saw in September last year. I was beginning to question what was doing the pollinating until I saw it! What tough little creatures they are 😊🐝 #Fridaybee #invertebrate

One of the white-tailed bumblebees. The bee sits on a dandelion, side on to the camera facing right, wings folded over its back. It has a yellow collar, a white/grey band at the back of the thorax, a yellow band on its abdomen and a white tail.

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Tairāwhiti Doc @tairawhitidoc.bsky.social · 16h

Cloudy sunrise, Saturday, 11 October, from Okitu Beach, Aotearoa / New Zealand.

Ata mārie / Good Morning ☀️

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Island Girl (IG)🇨🇦 @tenoaks6.bsky.social · 18h

"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring." David Bowie

#Scape #quotes #photography #adventure #nature #getalittlelost