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Janet Roch

@cumberlandjc.bsky.social

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Photography and nature keeping me sane. Retired paediatric EM now trying to do my bit to leave this beautiful planet for the next generation. All photo's my own unless re-posts / credited Sheffield UK

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 3d

Sept '25 Just back from a #herps holiday 38 diff species + lots of other #wildlife
🧡 the stark beauty of the dry #Morocco #landscape of rocky formations perfect for filming #StarWars with green vegetation anywhere there was a hint of water

#Stunday #EastCoastKin #Photohour #travel #ArtYear

View of the Moroccan landscape in the high Atlas Mountains. The steep slopes are barren with red sandstone rocks, layers eroded away giving a striped appearance, while the softer slopes are tinged faintly green from sparse vegetation clinging onto life with the help of moisture in the mountain air in summer and snow in winter. in the valley the small stream is enough to give life to green trees and strong bushes making a marked contrast to the surrounding drier land. The layers of hills fade away into the background lit by the dappled light of the sun finding its way through the small blue gaps in the clouds. On the edge of a nearer hill a town is lit up by the sun, seemingly perched on a descending ridge. Zooming in reveals flat topped white buildings and a beautiful Minaret all of which look so clean amongst the rest of the dusty landscape

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks Rob. 😊

Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 4h

🤩😍 even more beautiful than Sid 😂

Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 13h

Admission of Guilty Pleasure.....Think I've seen every programme of Midsommer and Vera over the years but how did I not know about the Shetland one - hope it's on catch-up 😂😂

Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 15h

That voice ❤️‍🔥

Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 16h

still a beautiful bird and photo 😂

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 16h

#Morocco 2025 - #kestrel
This beautiful bird was so incredibly well camouflaged against the sandstone cliffs it looked like it could have been sculpted from the rock and brought to life.
Canon R5 500mm f/8 1/400s ISO500 (taken at distance 😂)
#BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #nature #travel #birds

Photograph of a, likely juvenile male, kestrel (please correct me if I'm wrong about sex) sitting on a cliff of ocher sandstone, looking over its shoulder. The bird, with its brown wings patterned with black spots, buff breast, similarly spotted, and orange brown face and rump matches the patterned rock, only the white shoulder and grey tail barred with black breaking its camouflage. The main tell tail sign of its presence, and a sign that this is a frequent perch are the streaks of white bird poo extending down the rock face, which indeed was the thing that stood out at the long distance we were from the cliff and which, along with its call, led us to notice the bird in the first place.

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Robert - both for the inclusion and for introducing me to some great photographers I don't yet follow 😊

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 1d

#Morocco Sept 2025
It felt strange getting better and more (if distant) views of some "British" birds on #migration than I can back home
This beautiful ♀️pied flycatcher was enjoying the evening sun
Canon R5 500mm f/8 1/400 ISO800
#birdoftheday #birds #EastCoastKin #travel #nature #ukbirding

A female pied flycatcher photographed in Morocco during her migration south from her breeding grounds in Europe. She is sitting on a succulent bush, a cactus in the foreground. She is back-lit by late afternoon sun, imparting a glow on her and her surroundings. Original photo cropped and enlarged as she, like most of the birds we saw, was quite distant.

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 3d

#Morocco 2025
Where The Desert Meets The Sea
A rim of seaweed lent a hint of green but the salty sea gave few plants any hope of water and the sand met the the softly lapping waves in a harsh line, matching the fierceness of the sun

#BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #Travel #Scape #photohour #naturetrek

View from Southern Morocco where the Sahara falls down to the Atlantic Ocean. The sun is shining brilliantly and the sky is cloudless. The photo is taken from the top of a rocky sandstone cliff, the same colour as the distant sand. The sea in the bay is dark blue reflecting the blue of the sky. There is a small spit of land projecting into the sea on the left side at the edge of which is a thin band of seaweed and in the distance the sand dunes form a hard line where they meet the sea on the other side of the bay. It looks hot (it was - our maximum temp while we were there was 45 deg celcius 🥵)

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 3d

Absolutely love these microscope pictures - the world is so beautiful and weird close up😆🥰

Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 3d

😢😡 The original provocation was awful but I simply don't understand how anyone can justify the inhumanity being done to the people of Gaza.

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 3d

The beauty of that brickwork 😍😍

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 3d

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Carla Jack @pocketwildingie.bsky.social · Jan 21

Pruning tips to assist #CavityNesting insects and more from the excellent "Nesting & Overwintering Habitat for Pollinators and other Beneficial Insects" guide from @xercessociety.bsky.social - a Science-based invertebrate conservation nonprofit.

#Bugsky

PDF here:
xerces.org/sites/defaul...

Full guide: Nesting & Overwintering Habitat for Pollinators and other Beneficial Insects https://xerces.org/sites/default/files/publications/18-014.pdf

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Cath Hodsman @cathhodsman.bsky.social · 6d

Did u know? This autumn, don't clear away dead plants. Ladybirds sleep in curled up leaves; bees overwinter in hollow stems; caterpillars take refuge in long grass & spiders rely on dead stems to hang their webs on. It might look like *rubbish* to you, but it's home to someone else. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🕷️🪲🐞🐛

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · Aug 29

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Dan Higgins @danehiggins.bsky.social · Aug 15

Once again, for those in the back, our native pollinators love dandelions and thistles. There was an abundance of these butterflies out today.

#LifeHack get rid of your weeds by calling them flowers. 👍

#butterflies #pollinators #nature #insects #Ireland

A small tortoiseshell butterfly on a purple thistle. Grey gravel and green grass in the background.

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Philip Amies @amiesphilip.bsky.social · Aug 10

Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe (1 December 1901 – 7 February 1979) was a major visual influence on my childhood. House Sparrows feeding on wheat, a story about abundance, about a pest, which became a beloved bird (for many people) which became scarce.

Common Ragwort (biennial plant) a yellow flower, which has Cinnibar moth caterpillars on it which are orange and black striped, they feed on the plant, also Common Blue butterflies on flower visiting for nectar, growing alongside is a thistle, maybe Creeping Thistle a perennial plant spreading by rhizome growth. Beyond is the edge of a wheat crop with Common Poppy growing (an annual plant). A large flock of House Sparrow feeding on and flying into crop giving an impression of large numbers of birds. Beyond a small glimpse of a hedged field system, with perhaps Elm trees once a common sight in the rural landscape, blue sky and clouds complete this bucolic landscape.

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · Aug 10

Fascinated by the mantis shrimp......☺️

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · Aug 10

Thanks for the brilliant thread - I was having a meal with some farmer friends the other day and his nonagenarian father, also a farmer, was describing how abundant the house sparrows were being paid by his dad the numbers he shot in the fields - still considers them to be a pest

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · Jul 13

Just stunning 😍😍😍 and just how a Gannet looks - they all look like they're plotting to murder you 😂

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · Jul 13

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · Jul 13

Tbh not a big football fan - my son played Lacrosse with the Sheffield Steelers lacrosse club so that's where my alligiancies lie 😂😊

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · Jul 13

Bramall Lane! Just round the corner (or 2) from me 😊

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · Jul 11

North Rona is about 44 miles from the next bit of land we were travelling to!