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Al
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Gardener, birder and insect enthusiast. Happiest outdoors!
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Al @valezina15.bsky.social · Dec 31
New Year, new platform. All the best for 2025. Here's a picture of my favourite butterfly, the valezina form of Silver-washed Fritillary.
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 2h
It's #WorldAlgaeDay! Japanese algologist Kintaro Okamura (1867-1935) provided taxonomies & descriptions in English & Japanese for his monumental work "Nihon sorui zufu" / "Icones of Japanese Algae" (1907-1942). Find it in #BHLib via
#MBLWHOILibrary
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪
Historic illustrations of algae Historic illustrations of algae Historic illustrations of algae Historic illustrations of algae
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Al @valezina15.bsky.social · 17h
Headed to Filey Brigg today in the hope the Needletail would turn up. No luck, so had to be content with Rock Pippits, feisty Stonechats and a handsome Wheatear!
Lines of dark rocks with waves breaking over them, reaching out into the grey North Sea at the very tip of the headland at Filey, North Yorkshire. Little breaks in the cloud cover allow glimpses of blue sky overhead.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 2d
Just extraordinary to witness this nature-hating government sabotaging Labour’s own legacy. And for absolutely no reason: nature protection isn’t blocking development - it’s a necessary prerequisite for it (& for everything else, come to that…)
Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups
Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law
www.theguardian.com
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Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social · 1d
Saturday #morningread
Have a restful and peaceful weekend!
Enjoy the autumnal woods!
🍂🍁
From wildreckoning: an anthology provoked by Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
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Al @valezina15.bsky.social · 2d
I'm watching a zaunkönig (great word) right now!
Agree we could all do with some joyful shouting though, so C gets my vote.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d
The Freedom Frogs of Portland are multiplying. It’s beautiful.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 3d
"Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen."
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

An October Morning (1910)
🎨 Frank Alfred Bicknell
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Al @valezina15.bsky.social · 3d
Good luck to you and everyone watching. I'm stuck at work 😭.
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 5d
Pause, and read...

• Kenneth C. Steven •
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Al @valezina15.bsky.social · 12d
FYI it's the Library room at The Victoria pub, Paddington 😊
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Al @valezina15.bsky.social · 12d
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 14d
Stop for a moment, and read...

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Jonathan Pomroy @jonathanpomroy.bsky.social · 16d
Four watercolour studies sketched on a September evening.
My sketchbooks will be available to view at my forthcoming Ampleforth Abbey exhibition.
Saturday and Sunday 4th/5th October
10am-4pm each day
More details at

jonathanpomroy.wordpress.com
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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 17d
Big news from #OutintheField at the Walled Garden excavations at Stourhead! ⛏

The team, led by @nationaltrust.org.uk archaeologist Steve, have uncovered a 19th-century cast iron stove, sitting in its original spot - the cellar of the pine house. 🧵
A man in a black tshirt with a green National Trust emblem is holding a bucket, kneeling in front of an iron stove which was used to heat a pineapple house
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Galling, @galling.bsky.social · 17d
Gall of the week is caused by a moth, Mompha sturnipennella on rosebay willowherb, Chamerion angustifolia.
Gall photo by Tom Higginbottom, causer photo unknown, taken from the British Plant Gall Society website: www.britishplantgallsociety.org
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 17d
Breathe in...

• Wendell Berry •
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Dave Simpson 🇪🇺 @nemumdave.bsky.social · 16d
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
United Utilities underspent £52m on vital work to reduce sewage pollution, FoI reveals
Privatised water company criticised over efforts to connect private septic tanks to mains and cut pollution
www.theguardian.com
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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 16d
It's #FatBearWeek! To celebrate, here's a nice #FatBear from BHL's image collection. For more historic #SciArt of bears (of all sizes) see our BHL Flickr collection: www.flickr.com/photos/biodi.... For this year's fattest bears, see www.explore.org/fat-bear-week 🐻
A fat brown bear standing in front of a river with its front paws on a rock. There are snow covered mountains in the distance.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 23d
No longer needed for farming, they remain part of the landscape’s story and, thanks to groups like the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, are being restored as quiet havens for wildlife. Image courtesy of Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. See their article at www.ywt.org.uk/wolds-dew-po... 2/2
Wolds dew ponds | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
Gazing across the rolling Yorkshire Wolds, you may spot glimmers of water among the farms and fields. These are the mysterious dew ponds - providing a glimpse into past farming practices. Our restorat...
www.ywt.org.uk
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Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social · 20d
Monday #morningread
First day of Autumn
Happy Autumn Equinox & Mabon
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Lyme Disease UK @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social · 21d
Help track UK ticks! Found one on yourself or a pet? Send it in to support research on tick populations, distribution, and species diversity. Every sample counts.

Learn how: gov.uk/guidance/tic...

#TickAwareness #TickSurveillance #LymeDisease #BeTickAware
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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 22d
Stealing, fomr the wonderful Iain Banks:
“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”
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HullDockster @hulldockster.bsky.social · 22d
@joe-solo.bsky.social

Please give a shout out for the counter protest in Hull on Saturday 27th.
4 far-right groups are amassing in our city centre, the same people who organised the Farage Riots last year.
Join local Unions and anti-racists to let them know they’re not welcome.
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 24d
"Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine."
~ Carl G. Jung

September (1956)
🎨 René Magritte
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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 27d
In times of darkness
keep sowing
the seeds of goodness.

》Vincent van Gogh
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Al @valezina15.bsky.social · 27d
Great trip to the coast today. Quality birds and good conversations at #RSPB Bempton. Pied Fly, smart Lesser Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, Hobby, Kestrel, Sprawk, masses of Chiffchaffs, W.Warblers, Blackcaps and Whitethroats. Icing on the cake was a stunning male Redstart.
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Blurry back of camera shot of a male Common Redstart.
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