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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 01/06/2025
Marsh orchid and health spotted orchid in north Skye’s mild month of May. #wildflowerhour
Marsh orchid buds against green grassy background Marsh orchid blowing in the wind heath spotted orchid amidst reflectiveness of green grass
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 01/06/2025
Health bumble, carder bumble, fringe cups, bumble on bugle, and tree wasp with hawthorn flowers. #bees #pollinators #inverts
Health bumble closeup with fringe cups Carder bumble bee buried their head deep in the barrel of a pink flower A bumble bee on carpet bugle Tree wasp on hawthorn flowers
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 19/05/2025
Red clover, seamar a’ chapuill, the mare’s clover in Gaelic, also sùgag for the honey infused bloom that comes a little later. #wildflowerhour
Early stage of red clover
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 19/05/2025
white clover, seamar bhàn, the fair gentle one in Gaelic and Irish. #wildflowerhour
Blossomed white clover
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 19/05/2025
white clover, seamar bhàn, the fair gentle one in Gaelic and Irish. #wildflowerhour
White clover flower’s early stage amidst green grass
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 19/05/2025
sweet vernal grass
Sweet vernal grass looking pink and purple agains blurry green background of field
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 11/05/2025
Veronica chamaedrys, Germander Speedwell in Skye, nuallach (also for a howling cry) in Gaelic. #wildflowerhour
Germander speedwell blooming amidst greenness
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 05/05/2025
hawthorn, sgeach - a haw, roots in hu (celtic) - pervading while its scent smelled. #wildflowerhour
hawthorn flower buds and blooming flowers rising from shadow like suspended bubbles
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 05/05/2025
heath spotted orchid, maculata, ùrach bhallach #wildflowerhour
heath spotted orchid amidst reflectiveness of green grass
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 29/04/2025
Green-veined white, Skye #teammoth
A white moth amidst green grass and horse tail
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 29/04/2025
Ruby tiger moth, Skye #teammoth
A red moth holding onto a long brown straw upside down
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 29/04/2025
opposite leaves golden saxifrage, Skye #wildflowerhour
Opposite leaves golden saxifrage shining through shadows, moisture, and a hint of spider web
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 29/04/2025
drinker moth, Skye #teammoth
Drinker moth between long grass
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 29/04/2025
hardy fuchsia, Skye #wildflowerhour
Hardy fuchsia’s blooming pink white-ish flower
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 29/04/2025
bumble on bugle #wildflowerhour
a bumble bee on carpet bugle
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 29/04/2025
red campion, skye #wildflowerhour
close up of a red campion against blurry green background
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 27/04/2025
cuckooflowers in Skye #brassicaceae #wildflowerhour
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 27/04/2025
coast rockcress in Skye #brassicaceae #wildflowerhour
blooming coast rockcress against blurry green backdrop coast rockcress obscured against blurry green backdrop
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 22/04/2025
Heard the calls of cuckoo birds before seeing the blooming cuckoo flowers.
A closeup of cuckoo flowers and flower buds
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 20/04/2025
Pottailes in north Skye. #tinyplants #wildflowerhour
brownish red shoots of tiny mosses against warm and greenish background
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 20/04/2025
Field woodrush, learman-raoin in gaelic, lear, or léir - being clear and discernible. #tinyplants #wildflowerhour
a close up of field woodrush, bearing brownish-purple flower with large light-yellow anthers.
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 20/04/2025
Rowan's tiny flower buds showing through in north Skye, known as fuinseag coille - the wood enchantress, or craobh chaoran - the berry tree, and in old gaelic as luis, for a drink. #tinyplants #wildflowerhour
a closeup of rowan leaf bud unopened with flower buds showing through on top
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 17/04/2025
The process of knowing another — marsh-marigold (caltha palustris), through consistent visits. A chorrach shod — the clumsy one of the marsh. Or, lus bhuidhne bealtuinn — the yellow plant of Beltane/May, with bel/baal referring to the sun-god, and teine the fire.
The curved capsule of marsh marigold fruit, drying to brown with golden yellow tips on their ends The curved capsule of marsh marigold fruit, drying to brown with golden yellow tips on their ends A tapered drone fly seen leaving a marsh marigold flower
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Shen Xin @shenxin.info · 07/04/2025
the calls, heard in an April morning signalling a temporary goodbye, connecting one home to another, from Mni Sota Makoce to An t-eilean Sgitheanach, the Maang (Anishinaabe), the Mdóza(Dakota), and the Muir-Bhuachaill(Gaelic). #seabirds
a great northern diver in the ocean seen from a far
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