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Fraggs Photography 📸🦊🦉🦋🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @fraggenstein.bsky.social · 8h

Another foxy photo this evening ~ Bonus of a second fox in this capture and did not know it was there when taking the photo as the light had almost gone 🤩🦊 #ukwildlife #mammals #fox #wildlife #foxlove #redfox #foxlife #cutefox #bluesky #naturephotography #naturetherapy
@foxeveryhour.bsky.social

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 7h

That must have been a great trip! 😍

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 8h

More homework??!!! Kiddo’s gonna be maaaaaaad 🤣🤣

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 8h

95,002…

Just joined. First time joining any political party

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 13h

We can't keep up...

Yesterday we reached 90,000 members. Today we're at 95,000.

Be part of the Green surge. Join the Green Party today ⤵️

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 9h

CAN YOU GUESS THIS ONE?? 👀

(Thanks to @schmidtocean.bsky.social for letting me share their video!)

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 9h

Spot the odd one out!

Lovely photos. Where was the hummingbird?

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Breeding Bird Surveys (BBS) @bbs-birds.bsky.social · 22h

(1/) Hi, I’m David, and I help to run the BBS social media channels. This #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek, I am sharing something about myself, rather than the usual BBS posts, in order to raise awareness of my mild learning difficulties.

David White saying that he is Dyslexic and Dyspraxic.

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 1d

A big win for one of California’s smallest native mammals 🎉

The CA Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously today to declare the Pacific pocket mouse a candidate species under the California ESA, granting protections for them as the state conducts a yearlong review.

Read on ➡️ bit.ly/474L4Iz

A small brown rodent, the Pacific Pocket Mouse, sits on the ground with its tail slightly curled around its round body.

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 10h

Ahahahaha he did! And thanks!

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 10h

Bird of the day theme is ‘spotted’ so these are my contributions: a redwing, a woodpecker, a buzzard and a crow? Why? Read the alt text!

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #LondonBirds #UKBirding #Photography

This is a redwing, a member of the thrush family. Like other thrushes, it has dots on its abdomen. And in this case, more dark grey dots running from its head and down its back. So, a spotted bird.

This photo shows a mainly grey bird perched on a branch. It is facing left, looking a bit up. Its abdomen is white with some darker dots. There are patches of red just under its grey wings.

This is the great spotted woodpecker. It also has some spots. So a twofer there.

A photo of a bird clinging on to the side of a tree trunk. It is black and white with a patch of red on top of its head. Its beak is long and sturdy and he looks ready to peck at the trunk.

This buzzard was spotted by my eagle eyed kid. It also has a few spots. So another twofer!

A large bird is standing on a moss-covered branch, ripping into a frog - its lunch. It is a sturdy, largish bird, with large orange talons and thick legs. It is leaning forward to eat. It is a brown bird with some lighter mottled and spots.

Crow clocked the camera - I got spotted!

A black bird is standing on a ledge, facing a bit to the left, but with its head cocked and looking at the camera.

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 12h

I’m laughing but not with happiness…

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 12h

Right back at ya! ❤️❤️❤️

Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 13h

Me too. Honestly, if I hadn’t received the text today, I would have marched to the GP’s office and sat there til they sorted it 🤣

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 13h

Yes!! Thanks for asking :)) Went today to the pharmacist. Dealt with actual humans. In and out quickly and kiddo has her meds. Hurrah!

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Bob Fischer @bobfischer.bsky.social · 13h

Anyone free on actual Halloween night? Come to Whitby, I'll guide you gently through memories of 1970s/80s Halloweens ("The sky is blue, the grass is green") and there'll be music, dressing up, sweets etc. I might even do the "Witches of Halloween" song from 'Words and Pictures'. A fiver. A FIVER!

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 16h

My daughter’s version (part of her GCSE coursework)

A pencil sketch of Antinous as Dionysus. A marble bust of a young man, chest bare, wearing a headdress of grapes vines and other vegetation. On a black background with a bit of text and more grape vines.

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Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social · 18h

We love it that the Christopher Bland Prize recognises debut novelists and non-fiction writers over 50. Not all of us are spring chickens 😁 Now open for entries.
#WomenWritersNet

Royal Society of Literature @rsliterature.bsky.social · 3d

The 2026 Christopher Bland Prize is now open for entry 🏆

Closing 5pm on Friday 5 December 2025: https://rsliterature.org/rsl-christopher-bland-prize/

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks!

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 17h

Ooh, thanks! Will check it out :)))

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 21h

Noor Inayat Khan was in the Special Operations Executive, a UK government department. She aided the French Resistance against the occupying Nazis. She was betrayed, captured and executed at Dachau Concentration camp.
#Antifa #History #WomensHistory #WomenAreBadAss

A black and white photo of a young woman in military uniform. She has black hair and is smiling into the camera. Photo is public domain (I nicked it off of Wikipedia).

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 21h

This is my mum, after her stroke. In her 20s (1960s), she was part of a group of students who smuggled people out of East Germany, into the west, outsmarting the Stasi and reuniting families. She continued to fight for others’ human rights
#Antifa #History #WomensHistory #Resistance #WomenAreBadAss

A photograph of an elderly woman in a wheelchair. She has chin length grey-brown hair and is smiling gently at the camera (well, me!). She is wearing a tan top with a grey cardigan. A bookcase is behind her.

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 22h

Some women were actual founders of antifa, not just ‘girlfriends’

Sophie Scholl was a member of White Rose, an anti-Nazi group at the university of Munich. She was murdered by the Nazi regime (for treason) on 22 February, 1943 She was only 21 years old
#Antifa #History #WomensHistory #Resistance

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 1d

This common darter just hung out on the bank, I guess shouting out instructions to the flying pair…

#Insects #LondonWildlife #Dragonflies

A red dragonfly resting on the dry muddy bank of the lake.

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 1d

The dragonflies’ aerial egg-laying acrobatics was made more, erm, interesting, by this juvenile Little Grebe, who was trying to eat them. After a couple of attempts (those dragonflies are good at flying whilst attached!), he gave up and went back to his sticklebacks
#LondonBirds #Birds #UKBirding

A young bird on the lake. It is mainly different shades of brown, with a slender neck, small beak and largish eyes. It also has a floofy bum.

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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 1d

Common darters (Sympetrum striolatum) dispersing eggs across the lake. It’s a rather precarious way to ‘lay’ eggs - the male attaches himself to the female and they fly around together as she sprays eggs all over the place 😳

#LondonWildlife #Insects #Dragonflies #NaturePhotography

A photo of two dragonflies flying together in tandem. The red male is in front, his tail end attached to the female’s thorax. She is a paler yellow colour. They are flying over water, some lily leaves are coming into the photo on the right.

The same pair, still attached, flying over the water.

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