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Robbie Rowe

@privateshufti.bsky.social

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Healthcare scientist, naturalist, spotterish Omnivorous reader and book collector (modern firsts, nature writing, climate fiction) Casual birder, insect enthusiast Into food, travel, history, music Fediverse presence: @[email protected] No DMs

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 2d

Trying to get in the mood for #Halloween so reading this

Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 3d

Went on a ramble yesterday from my house through the local woods and fields.
A late-flowering thistle still attracting bees.
A variety of fungi despite the dry weather.
Flocks of finches and tits patrolling the hedgerows in the former pasture between the M27 & Broadleaf Park, Rownhams
#NatureNotes

Russet toadstool surrounded by autumn leaves

Speckled brown Agaric toadstools emerging from woodland soil

Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 4d

"In this autumntime,
why do I so feel the years?
In the clouds a bird"

By Matsuo Basho, translation by Andrew Fitzsimons

Autumn Haiku Picks From Japan's Poetry Tradition | Tokyo Weekender share.google/LKSkMCotaksm...

#Autumn
#BookWormSat 📚🍁

Autumn Haiku Picks From Japan's Poetry Tradition | Tokyo Weekender

The best autumn haiku selection by Matsuo Basho, Kobayashi Issa, Masaoka Shiki and Yosa Buson, in Japanese and English translation.

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 4d

My grandparents had those 'century of' anthologies, remember browsing through them as a child

Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 4d

We have a print of this in our dining room / library

Klimt print of autumnal forest hanging on a blue wall in a room with untidy bookshelves

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 6d

Morning

Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, I try to read a relevant non-fiction / history or travelogue book when visiting too

Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, it is so good on many levels. Love the tree narrator! I reread it now as we were in Cyprus for the 1st time

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 9d

Just finishing The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (reread). Next up: Slags by Emma Jane Unsworth
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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 12d

Some Entish trees along an old cart track near Botley, Hampshire today

#Autumn #Trees

Beech trees with prominent roots, along an old track. The leaves are just starting to turn golden

A phalanx of beech trees, with tangled roots anchored in a mossy bank

Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 21d

The sun sets into the wine-dark sea, Paphos

#Cyprus #Sunset

The sun is just beginning to sink below the horizon, in an orange-red sky. The surface of the sea is dark, with waves beginning to break in the immediate foreground

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Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social · Jun 17

Fragaria vesca, Wild Strawberry, Invert Associates
Native of woods, scrub & hedgerow, embankments & road verges, an important element of the ground flora. It supports 51 species of invert as a larval host, of which 14 are Coleoptera, 30 Lepidoptera.
📷 CAM Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora
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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 27d

Like a visitation from Faerie

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · 27d

I once saw this on Walthamstow Marshes in London, in the mid 80s. Not hundreds, but certainly dozens

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · Sep 8

Yes, it's beautiful. I'd love to visit the Prespa lake region but fear I might not want to leave

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Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social · Sep 8

Edmund Berninger’s The Bay of Naples, with a hazy Vesuvius looming beyond, its smoky plume dwarfing the chimney smoke at far L (late 19C)

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · Sep 8

Cemetery portal, Southampton Old Cemetery.

Portal path past ivy-shrouded gravestones and overhanging trees to distant golden sunlight

Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · Sep 8

Reading Greyhound, the travelogue / memoir by Joanna Pocock (another birthday present). Listening to Wolf Hall (a revisit)
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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · Sep 5

Gorgeous day with good views of several ospreys and marsh harriers. Finished with a large flock of spoonbills on Brownsea lagoon in the company of numerous waders, terns & gulls
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Roost of spoonbills with a grey heron and oystercatchers in the foreground, with lagoon, hide and castle beyond the lagoon

Blue sky reflected in the flat calm waters of Poole harbour

Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · Sep 5

Really looking forward to @harbourbirds.bsky.social Osprey cruise today, looks like the weather will be fine 🤞
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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great news!
For the record though, my current boss is lovely

Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, tribunal rules

Woman who was immediately sacked when she insulted her manager during a row wins unfair dismissal case

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · Aug 31

ebird.org/checklist/S2...

eBird Checklist - 30 Aug 2025 - Fishlake Meadows NR - 17 species

Submitted by Robert Rowe.

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · Aug 31

Fishlake Meadows, Romsey yesterday.
A breezy day with periods of light rain.
A huge flock of house & sand martins chattering & feeding above the marshes.
A tree creeper exploring the fissured bark of a giant poplar.
A pair of ravens patrolling.
A lesser stag beetle on the path.
#nature #UKBirding 🪶

Lesser stag beetle crawling on a muddy path

Large poplar tree with deeply fissured bark, growing by a canal tow path beside marshland

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Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · Aug 31

Yeah I know. I can't be bothered to get into that whole 'what do we do about great art by bad people' debate @ 0600 on a Sunday morning though

Robbie Rowe @privateshufti.bsky.social · Aug 30

'Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world'

The Road, Cormac McCarthy - the darkest of #dystopias for #BookWormSat

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