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Adam Markham
@adammarkham.bsky.social
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Climate, biodiversity, heritage & archaeology.
Co-chair Climate Change Specialist Group of IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. UHI PhD student researching Viking/Norse birds. Trustee ICOMOS-USA. #HeritageAdapts #archaeobirds #zooarchaeology
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I’m officially over this winter, -17C is not funny.🥶
Partial screen showing outside temperature is -1F (-17C)
February 8, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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The Everglades just south of Tamiami trail. #WorldHeritage
Picture of a wetland from the window of a plane, with part of the engine seen to the left.
February 5, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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I loved the @empirepoduk.bsky.social pod by @willdalrymple.bsky.social & @anitaanand.bsky.social on the 1857 Indian rebellion, & went back to my grandparents' photo album. They visited Lucknow residency from Meerut in about 1923, my grandfather probably remembered his own Boer War siege experience
Sepia-coloured b/w photo of the Lucknow residence in c. 1923. The residence was a key site in the Indian rebellion of 1857 and ha been preserved as a memorial. Sepia-coloured b/w photo of the Lucknow residence in c. 1923. The residence was a key site in the Indian rebellion of 1857 and ha been preserved as a memorial. Sepia-coloured b/w photo of the Lucknow residence in c. 1923. The residence was a key site in the Indian rebellion of 1857 and ha been preserved as a memorial. This is the residence of Dr. Fayrer.
January 24, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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Red sky in the morning - shepherd’s warning.
-15C, and expecting the big snow storm tomorrow.
A fiery orange sunrise behind bare winter trees. Some snow on the ground in the foreground.
January 24, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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Pigeon boy NYC.
A statue of a boy with hands outstretched upwards. Pigeons are sitting on each hand and his head. There are bare trees and a winter sky in the background.
January 23, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Architecture seems to have changed since I was last at this end of 5th Avenue…
A construction site clad in a tower-block size facade in the shape and style of a pile of Louis Vuitton luggage. A yellow cab speeds away from the scene of the crime at bottom left.
January 23, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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St. Agnes! Ah! it is St. Agnes' Eve—
Yet men will murder upon holy days:
Thou must hold water in a witch's sieve,
And be liege-lord of all the Elves and Fays...
John Keats

-16C, appropriately brisk for the traditionally coldest night of the year.
A blue screen showing an outdoor temperature of 3 degrees F (translation: -16C).
January 21, 2026 at 12:13 PM
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We woke to a Narnian sunrise today.
Snow covered trees at dawn, with pink flushes in pale lilac sky Snowy trees with a yellowish sun rising low behind
January 19, 2026 at 9:12 PM
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Boardwalks are brilliant!
A man with greyish hair, and wearing a blue shirt and pale yellow shorts, is lying across a two-plank boardwalk taking a photo of sundews with his i-phone on Isle au Haut, a unit of Acadia National Park in Maine.
January 14, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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The recent round of snow has melted.
A dead leaf on a grey board, with large droplets of water on it.
January 11, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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Summer will inevitably come and then so will gannets.🪶
Large black and white seabirds againts a blue sky with a sheer cliff in the right bottowm corner. There is one wispy cloud at left.
January 2, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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Thoth hopes the good in your heart for 2026 weighs up favorably against Maat's ostrich feather. 🏺 #archaeobirds #DivineEgypt
An ibis carries a feather - depicted in part of a hieroglyphic inlay. Photographed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Divine Egypt exhibition.
December 31, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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And on a completely different scale (this beauty is just a few cm tall) is a limestone snake with arms holding a sun-disc incised with a heron-like Bennu bird and wedjat eye. Dated 664-332 BCE. #archaeobirds 🏺
A pale brown carved stone figure on an ivory colored plinth.The figure has a snake's head and human arms. it holds a disc with carved images.
December 31, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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I particularly liked this giant late scarab (Khepri) taking a bit of time off from pushing the sun across the horizon. 🏺
A very large stone scarab beetle 3/4 view A very large stone scarab beetle seen from the front. The wall behind is yellow.
December 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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The Divine Egypt exhibition at the Met in NYC is filled with a beautiful mix of social zooarchaeological wonders. Dozens of different animal deities giving up just a little of their meaning. This is a falcon-headed Horus sharing a throne with King Haremhab from about 1300 BCE.
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A stone statue of two barefooted persons sitting on a throne. One has a falcons head. Both wear high hats or crowns with cobra heads represented. The arm of bird-headed deity appears to be placed protectively behind the mortal.
December 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Rare sighting of a “bagel and cream cheese” mushroom. 🍄‍🟫
December 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Weir Farm Christmas Day- 7 seconds of winter zen. #NationalParks
December 26, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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And the Christmas cake, just iced and with marzipan under the icing, & which i've been "feeding" with brandy every couple of days for the last two weeks. A brilliant @nigelslater.bsky.social recipe I've been doing for many years (but probably not as elegantly as he does!!).
A white cake on a blue and white plate. The cake is covered in white icing and in the middle is a plaster model of a man in red with a green xmas tree. Behind the cake plate is a bowl with oranges, lemons and limes and blue and white jug.
December 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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And now the mince pies & brandy butter. 🌲
A tray of mince pies being prepared before cooking. There are 24 pies, 12 of which have tops on already, the others have just been filled with mince. A metal tray of 24 mince pies just taken out of the oven. A glass mixing bowl with a mixtiure of sugar, butter and brandy that is "brandy butter" for having with mince pies and Christmas pudding on Christmas Day.
December 23, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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We always try to have something from the garden for Xmas lunch. This year we're going with these "greasy grits" beans. We ate them green for three weeks in the summer & then kept the rest for winter. They were super productive & dried very nicely. We'll have plenty left to plant next spring. 🌱
A metal colander full of small dry mottled brown beans. The conter top is covered in dry bean pods and more spill out of the top of a white compost can.
December 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Pretty grateful to have Nod Hill Brewery just around the corner. Great pick-up Irish night starting the weekend off right.
December 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Tomorrow came.
Bare trees at sunrise, with snow on the ground. The sky is orange and yellow at the horizon and blue above.
December 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Cleaning out the spice cupboard on a snowy afternoon & came across this bottle of vanilla. We bought it in a market in the Seychelles on our honeymoon 32 years ago. I think it may have finally passed it's sell-by date. But we'll keep it. #foodhistory #foodarchaeology
A small White Horse scotch whisky bottle with about 2cm of dark brown liquid in it and some crystals growing inside. The lid is pale yellow with the words White Horse in red, and decorated with a dent and some rust. The liquid is not scotch.
December 14, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Yesterday & today. Tomorrow?
Bare trees at sunrise with a pink and lilac sky. Bare trees after snow, with a grey sky.
December 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Another cold day starts, and what a beautiful start it is.
A fiery sunrise behind bare trees. The sky is orange, pink and lilac.
December 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM