Mark Walters

@mark-walters.bsky.social

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Archaeologist at Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology. Into: Sound & Music, Photography, Botany, Dragonflies, Palaeontology, Astronomy, Art, LiDAR, Ancient History, Numismatics, Gaming, Border Collies

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 5h

Our winter Scandinavian visitors, the Fieldfare and Redwing, were out in large numbers on the lunchtime walk today in freezing conditions. Also a few Meadow Pipits. The Montgomeryshire Canal is frozen over again.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 7h

‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘A precarious position’: almost 3,000 species at risk of disappearing from Wales, report finds

Environmental body says modest investment and changes can help preserve long list of animals, fungi and lichen

www.theguardian.com

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 1d

Kingfisher and Treecreeper on the lunchtime walk today

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 1d

I was going to say there was nothing new in the BBC Civilisations series but in the strange diversion at the start to the attack by the Kushites on Roman Egypt I did learn about the origin of the bronze head of Augustus in the BM. The rest of it was just the standard Honorius/Stilicho/Alaric story.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 4d

Very atmospheric here with it curling around trees and creeping across fields.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 4d

Gorgeous evening out there with the fog advancing and receding across the fields then it opens up to a setting sun.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 4d

Fog has rolled in unexpectedly. Everything looks ethereal out there

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 4d

As the crow flies

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 4d

It’s usually on 28th Nov but of course retailers have stretched it to the weeks either side now too.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 4d

Avoiding all of the Black Friday nonsense like a Pro. Put that money into a cancer or animal charity instead 👍

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 4d

Some black and whites from a 2 hour stroll yesterday

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 4d

Thought I would give this novel a go. It’s not often you get some Neolithic fiction and I think the last time I read a novel with a Neolithic setting it was Jim Crace’s Gift of Stones which I really enjoyed.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 5d

Enjoying a read of the Red River photobook by Jem Southam. It takes a look at the less visited landscape and communities around Redruth and Camborne in Cornwall - the kind of places I like because they are less visited and stuffed with industrial heritage. Plenty of accompanying text and poems too👍

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 5d

-5 this morning and the Montgomeryshire Canal was frozen over.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 5d

Watched the film Eden (2024). I had never heard of this intriguing real-life mystery that played out on the Galapagos island of Floreana in the 1930’s. Well worth your time 👍

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 6d

Oh yes, definitely 👍🙂

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 6d

Clown of a dog 😁

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 6d

Gorgeous out there today in crisp sunshine ☀️ Headed up the Montgomeryshire Canal to Llanymynech via Carreghofa Locks

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 6d

Somehow Lola finds the largest log in the field deposited by the recent floods and proceeds to drag it around the rest of the walk - too big to throw 🙂

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 6d

The old straight track - a ‘green lane’ preserved by the River Vyrnwy at Carreghofa. Amazed this one has survived hedgerow removal for agriculture.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 7d

Enjoying, if that’s the right word, the Channel 4 Summerwater drama. It’s kind of bleakly compelling as the back stories of fractured lives unfold and intertwine.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 8d

Nice of the Border Collie Trust to send a birthday card for Lola after one year in her new home 🙂

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 9d

Dropped into Cymer Abbey near Dolgellau. Construction started in 1198 under the Abbey’s patron Maredudd ap Cynan, Lord of Meirionydd, for the Cistercian order. It was never a wealthy abbey & the normal church plan was never completed. By 1388 there were only 5 monks and the abbey was closed in 1536

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 9d

Nice to see the restored gold processing Britten Pans are still OK at the Coed y Brenin Visitor Centre near Dolgellau after NRW closed their premises. They originally came from the Beddcoedwr gold mine (Marina Mine) and were used between 1904-1935. There’s a small Blakes stone breaker next to it.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 11d

👍🙂

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 11d

One of my fave albums from the 80s. Didn’t know there was an anniversary edition out

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 11d

Kind of Vern-wee

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 11d

Flood water at the River Vyrnwy from the Vyrnwy aqueduct and it’s still rising. All the fields between here and Llanymynech under up to 1m of water now in places.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 11d

Mojo looks a great character 👍

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 11d

Such long legs, lovely one 🙂

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