bevm1066
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Commenting on anything, used to be biased towards my broadcast technology career.
Nowadays, retired, so likely to be local things like wild flowers and countryside walking.
All images, unless otherwise credited: Bev MARKS©2025
Nowadays, retired, so likely to be local things like wild flowers and countryside walking.
All images, unless otherwise credited: Bev MARKS©2025
Very high tide at Rye Harbour today. Sea covered all of Camber Beach sands and the marshy land beside the harbour channel, with its walls completely covered in water, up to the Harbour Masters building...
Meanwhile Egret fishing, as water flowing fast into the Nature Reserve.
Meanwhile Egret fishing, as water flowing fast into the Nature Reserve.
February 4, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Very high tide at Rye Harbour today. Sea covered all of Camber Beach sands and the marshy land beside the harbour channel, with its walls completely covered in water, up to the Harbour Masters building...
Meanwhile Egret fishing, as water flowing fast into the Nature Reserve.
Meanwhile Egret fishing, as water flowing fast into the Nature Reserve.
Close encounter at Rye Harbour - shingle shifting back to where it came from, having been moved eastwards due to "longshore-drift".
February 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Close encounter at Rye Harbour - shingle shifting back to where it came from, having been moved eastwards due to "longshore-drift".
Spotted today (Jan-28) on 1066 Country Walk
January 28, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Spotted today (Jan-28) on 1066 Country Walk
#Wildflowerhour
To me quite a few of the Stellaria are rather similar, but guessing these are Lesser Stitchwort (Stellaria graminea) - found in a long term slightly boggy hill top lay grass field....
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To me quite a few of the Stellaria are rather similar, but guessing these are Lesser Stitchwort (Stellaria graminea) - found in a long term slightly boggy hill top lay grass field....
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November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
#Wildflowerhour
To me quite a few of the Stellaria are rather similar, but guessing these are Lesser Stitchwort (Stellaria graminea) - found in a long term slightly boggy hill top lay grass field....
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To me quite a few of the Stellaria are rather similar, but guessing these are Lesser Stitchwort (Stellaria graminea) - found in a long term slightly boggy hill top lay grass field....
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#Wildflowerhour
Fuschia flower found in a hedge amongst ivy within a public open space - nearby a pot shaped clump of compost - naughty discarding, but a surviver continues to flower!
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Fuschia flower found in a hedge amongst ivy within a public open space - nearby a pot shaped clump of compost - naughty discarding, but a surviver continues to flower!
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November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
#Wildflowerhour
Fuschia flower found in a hedge amongst ivy within a public open space - nearby a pot shaped clump of compost - naughty discarding, but a surviver continues to flower!
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Fuschia flower found in a hedge amongst ivy within a public open space - nearby a pot shaped clump of compost - naughty discarding, but a surviver continues to flower!
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#Wildflowerhour
For UK watchers - appropriate to today - poppies doing well in a set aside area of a huge winter wheat field...
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For UK watchers - appropriate to today - poppies doing well in a set aside area of a huge winter wheat field...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
#Wildflowerhour
For UK watchers - appropriate to today - poppies doing well in a set aside area of a huge winter wheat field...
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For UK watchers - appropriate to today - poppies doing well in a set aside area of a huge winter wheat field...
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Here is another image of Butchers Broom, observed yesterday, with a more fully open flower showing (lower centre right) - only about 3/4mm across.
Note how it is situated in the middle of the "leaf", which is actually a modified stem.
Note how it is situated in the middle of the "leaf", which is actually a modified stem.
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Here is another image of Butchers Broom, observed yesterday, with a more fully open flower showing (lower centre right) - only about 3/4mm across.
Note how it is situated in the middle of the "leaf", which is actually a modified stem.
Note how it is situated in the middle of the "leaf", which is actually a modified stem.
Can someone please help id this fungus, growing in a pretty damp grass verge location at a woodland edge - South East England coastal region. (No significant colour variation across the whole visible fruiting body.) #fungusfriends
November 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Can someone please help id this fungus, growing in a pretty damp grass verge location at a woodland edge - South East England coastal region. (No significant colour variation across the whole visible fruiting body.) #fungusfriends
Simply, I think with cooling weather recently it is time to brighten up with this image of 2 weeks ago...
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Simply, I think with cooling weather recently it is time to brighten up with this image of 2 weeks ago...
The fisherman, whose bright coloured float can be seen, said the Grey Heron always turned up when he had a catch! This one stretched out to show, surprising to me, very different wing feather colours.
October 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The fisherman, whose bright coloured float can be seen, said the Grey Heron always turned up when he had a catch! This one stretched out to show, surprising to me, very different wing feather colours.
#Wildflowerhour
At this time of year it is easy to assume there are very few wildflowers to be seen but this evening I found these flowers about 50m from where I am staying, in Norfolk.
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At this time of year it is easy to assume there are very few wildflowers to be seen but this evening I found these flowers about 50m from where I am staying, in Norfolk.
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October 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
#Wildflowerhour
At this time of year it is easy to assume there are very few wildflowers to be seen but this evening I found these flowers about 50m from where I am staying, in Norfolk.
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At this time of year it is easy to assume there are very few wildflowers to be seen but this evening I found these flowers about 50m from where I am staying, in Norfolk.
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#ThickTrunkTuesday How many would be needed to fully encircle this Wellingtonia/Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)?
Standing in a parkland copse with its base completely hidden on a gentle sloping High Weald parkland location...
Standing in a parkland copse with its base completely hidden on a gentle sloping High Weald parkland location...
September 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
#ThickTrunkTuesday How many would be needed to fully encircle this Wellingtonia/Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)?
Standing in a parkland copse with its base completely hidden on a gentle sloping High Weald parkland location...
Standing in a parkland copse with its base completely hidden on a gentle sloping High Weald parkland location...
#wildflowerhour For a favourite, sticking to most recently seen at Rye Harbour Castle Water, a large patch of Marsh Mallow (Althaea officinalis), with just one or two flowers remaining after many earlier in the season. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
#wildflowerhour For a favourite, sticking to most recently seen at Rye Harbour Castle Water, a large patch of Marsh Mallow (Althaea officinalis), with just one or two flowers remaining after many earlier in the season. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#wildflowerhour Despite record braking very heavy rainfall in our area, yeterday, this hop (Humulus lupulus) still looks pristine and undamaged climbing up a telegraph pole. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
#wildflowerhour Despite record braking very heavy rainfall in our area, yeterday, this hop (Humulus lupulus) still looks pristine and undamaged climbing up a telegraph pole. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Given the debate about id cards and Unitary Authority creation in the UK, I thought this short text may have some resonance to follow.
Lots of parallels to follow in constructing Unitary Authorities!
Lots of parallels to follow in constructing Unitary Authorities!
September 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Given the debate about id cards and Unitary Authority creation in the UK, I thought this short text may have some resonance to follow.
Lots of parallels to follow in constructing Unitary Authorities!
Lots of parallels to follow in constructing Unitary Authorities!
Keeping buffers steel shiney or black?
August 31, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Keeping buffers steel shiney or black?
#WildflowerHour Does this count? In my own garden, definitely not planted by us - so in a sense a wildflower! Very close to bird seed feeder, though... Apple-of-Peru (Nicandra physalodes)
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August 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#WildflowerHour Does this count? In my own garden, definitely not planted by us - so in a sense a wildflower! Very close to bird seed feeder, though... Apple-of-Peru (Nicandra physalodes)
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#WildflowerHour Sorry about this indistinct picture, taken in a hurry of a plant hemmed in by other's leaves, too. Seemed important because of status - beleived to be Red Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis angustifolia) at Rye Harbour NR seen on Wednesday.
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August 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
#WildflowerHour Sorry about this indistinct picture, taken in a hurry of a plant hemmed in by other's leaves, too. Seemed important because of status - beleived to be Red Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis angustifolia) at Rye Harbour NR seen on Wednesday.
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#WildflowerHour #PollinatorPals Too late, but those near matching yellows are rather perfect...
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August 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
#WildflowerHour #PollinatorPals Too late, but those near matching yellows are rather perfect...
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#WildflowerHour #ByTheSea Chicory (Cichorium intybus) at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve - a wonderful bright blue! (Picture might not show how vivid that colour is?) @bsbibotany.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
#WildflowerHour #ByTheSea Chicory (Cichorium intybus) at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve - a wonderful bright blue! (Picture might not show how vivid that colour is?) @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour #ByTheSea - Rottingdean Sea-Lavender (Limonium hyblaeum) at Rye Hrbour Nature Reserve, in a shingle dip next to the river channel... Apparently not liked by SWT because it is considered invasive but I've not seen significant invasion over several years. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#WildflowerHour #ByTheSea - Rottingdean Sea-Lavender (Limonium hyblaeum) at Rye Hrbour Nature Reserve, in a shingle dip next to the river channel... Apparently not liked by SWT because it is considered invasive but I've not seen significant invasion over several years. @bsbibotany.bsky.social