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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 3h

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies. Byron

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Elma @maybelmamazed.bsky.social · 9h

Another Wensleydale squeeze stile for #StileSaturday Don’t ask me how I can possibly live without these views…🥲 @lakesstiles.bsky.social

A dry-stone wall with a squeeze stile frames a view of the Yorkshire Dales village of Askrigg with rolling green hills and a blue sky filled with clouds beyond. A small wooden gate sits between the walls.

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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 7h

A little story about flowers, folklore and wool 🐑 #Shetland #Shetlandwoolweek

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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 6h

Colours of a storm #Shetland

two young boys standing in front of turquoise wavy sea

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Mart_the_Gooner @mart-the-gooner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Happy #FlyDay #SEO #ShortEaredOwl #BirdsInFlight #ECK #BirdOfTheDay #Owll Hoping for a good year for the Shorties 🦉🤞 2025 was a disappointment, so fingers crossed for plenty more sightings this winter. This one from 2024. 📷

A Short-eared Owl flies low over a rough grassland field, its broad wings fully extended and striking yellow eye clearly visible. Its mottled brown and cream plumage blends with the muted winter vegetation in the background.

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Occasionally Lost @mostlyrambling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today's Bird of the Day theme is "Best Beaks" I'm going with this Whimbrel in Arrecife in January 2020. #BirdOfTheDay #BestBeaks #WaderWednesday #BirdsOfBluesky #Nature #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #ECK #EastCoastKin

Portrait-oriented, 3:2 image.

A brown and buff patterned wader on a sandy shoreline. It has distinct dark bands on the crown of its head, separated by a pronounced, central light stripe. Light bands can be made out on the sides of its head too.

The bird is facing the camera with the water's edge behind it. Its head is pointed down and its long, dark beak is probing for food at the base of a rock on the left. Because it is leaning downwards there is a clear view of the plumage along its back which is very slightly tilted towards the viewer.

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A view of York Minster from the Bar Walls. Kendal Bridge and Bridge House, now Pizza Express in the foreground. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #ArtShare

A lone walker on the city walls with York Minster on the horizon.

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The entrance bay of the Grand Hotel & Spa, Station Rise, York. Built 1899-1906 as the head office of the North Eastern Railway Company, designed by William Bell of the NER and Horace Field. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #ArtShare

Pencil drawing of the entrance to an Edwardian office building.

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Brian Gallagher @bgallaghercoll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another video clip from early on Monday morning this week (it was a local holiday for some). An Otter feeding in the River Clyde, east of Glasgow Green.

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Grant Bulloch @bulloch.photography · 01/10/2026

The next in a series where I’m revisiting a trip to Colonsay and sharing a few of the wonderful textures and patterns along its varied coastline. #photography #landscapephotography #photographers

Blue tones of a rocky outcrop contrasting against the yellow sand

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Love Lento? ❤️ Could you slip us a few quid to help us cover our growing costs?

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Alan Cleaver @postalpathsguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is World Postcard Day and amazingly a painted postcard I entered in a Winsor & Newton competition has been chosen for a postcard exhibition at London's Saatchi Gallery! The exhibition runs from October 1 to the 11th at the Saatchi Gallery, London, SW3 4RY. #WorldPostcardDay

Painted postcard of a duckling with a L plate round his neck standing nervously by the edge of a pond from which a sign saying 'Deep End' is showing.

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Mart_the_Gooner @mart-the-gooner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fabulous birds 💜

A purple sandpiper in flight, wings raised, with foaming waves and a blue-grey sky behind it.”

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Nighttime on Still Waters @noswpod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The thick darkness Of a mole-blind morning. Feet slip on gravel and tiredness. Racing clouds lower themselves To the earth in rain. No moon or stars, Just waterlogged sky And the wind among the alders. But that is alright, For I have Stars enough And windsong among alders. #naturepoetry #night

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Elma @maybelmamazed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy #ThickTrunkTuesday 🌳 A magnificent tree enjoying the Yorkshire Dales sunshine.

A large tree stands beside a dry-stone wall, with a green hillside, stone barn and bright blue sky in the background.

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Harding's Linen Drapers Shop, 5 Coppergate, York. The 1st floor window of 5 Coppergate has a pair of sculpted figures possibly designed by Edward Caldwell Spruce, chief designer at Burmantofts Pottery of Leeds who provided the faience tiles for this part of the facade. #pencil #drawing #ArtShare

Pencil drawing of a window with two ceramic figures decorating the arch at the top.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bright light touches the trees across the river OTD in 2024

A view across a flooded meadow as trees catch a pool of light which casts their reflection on the water. There is a village seen below a tall tree on the right, and a hill beyond it.

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Brian Gallagher @bgallaghercoll.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kingfisher on the flint mill lade by the River Kelvin in Glasgow this afternoon. #birds

Kingfisher sits on a branch, surrounded by leaves

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here are some lovely Icelandic horses in the snow :) #Iceland #Horses #AwesomeFoursome

Blonde and red horse (not the technical name for the colour). Very white mane blowing in the wind with some soft light coming in from the right. Snow behind.

Brown and red horses with snow on them and snow visibly falling on them.

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Day arriving for this Torridon ladder stile.

6 stepped ladder stile over a deer fence in front of a river in which the sunrise colours are reflected.

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's stopped raining and now Wester Ross has decided it's down with kids and showing us a lovely 1930s Art Deco sunburst. That's crepuscular rays innit

Cloudy sky over the sea hiding the sun but producing rays that go both down and up from the lower cloud.

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I initially drew the shielding with stone walls penning in the sheep. The archaeologists thought it more likely that living walls or hedges were used, cue a significant redraw. This is the original pencil stage of the illustration.

Pencil drawing of a shielding or seasonal living hut. It is shown with stone walls penning some sheep.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m on my nonsense again. This week’s Six Things: – Typesetting – Vernacular – BPOTY – Pips & Nubs – Lobster – Hortle

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Six Things, Volume 167

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A Long-tailed Tit among the berries. Delightful. What have you spotted in nature this weekend? 👇

A Long-tailed Tit perches among branches covered in red berries and green leaves. Its small round body, pale face, dark head stripe and soft pinkish markings stand out against a blurred golden-green background.

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Paul Green Wildwire @paulgreenwildwire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Freehand lifesized Wire Egyptian Goose Sculpture #goose #wiresculpture #art #wireartist

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An English Bluebell a day until I run out of photos #106

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One bike passing another

Black and white photograph of a pedal cyclist dressed in black passing a parked pale motor scooter.

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Mellon Udrigle. The stile at the camping ground (very much not 'campsite') has collapsed.

Turquoise sea on white sand beach in a rocky bay with mountains beyond and clouds

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WildDartmoor @tonydartmoor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New blog from me about the ongoing debate over grazing and nature on Dartmoor. Farmers’ livelihoods matter. So does the state of nature. We need to take both seriously. www.dartmoornature.org.uk/post/failing...

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Approaches Failing Nature Require Scrutiny

This article, written by DNA's Tony Whitehead, first appeared in the Western Morning News on 26 September 2026.This week, Farmers Weekly reported that more than 40 Dartmoor farmers and commoners have ...

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Occasionally Lost @mostlyrambling.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today's Mavis pic... Helping with the washing. 🐾 🧺 #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLForLookingIn #LookingIn #ECK #EastCoastKin

Landscape oriented, 3:2 image.

View from above of a German Shepherd sticking her head into a front-loading, white washing machine.

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Mart_the_Gooner @mart-the-gooner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

👁️ Blink and you’ll miss it… unless you slow things down to 480 fps I was just 8 feet away from this Eurasian Sparrowhawk, using a 600mm lens. In slow motion, its nictitating membrane sweeps across the eye and back again, acting like a tiny windscreen wiper.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Spray on the rocks at Mawgan Porth, Cornwall OTD in 2022.

Waves breaking with white spray over rocks on a beach. The sea appears black, with green on the underside of the waves before breaking in white foam on the beach.

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Occasionally Lost @mostlyrambling.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lighting up time. 🌅 Photo: Brighton, November 2013 #BlueSkyArtShow #Lights #UrbanGaze #Travel #ECK #EastCoastKin

Landscape oriented, 5:4 photo.

Two nineteenth century, cast-iron standard street lamp posts, each with a pair of pendant lights. The tops of the standards are marked by ornate, decorative moulding. The lights are on.

Between the lamp posts are two strings of modern lights, one string above the other. These small bulbs are larger than fairy lights but provide the same effect. The strings also extend outwards from the posts and disappear outwith the edges of the frame.

It is twilight. The background is mostly clear sky and the cast iron posts are silhouetted against this golden background. There is a large band of dark grey cloud extending horizontally from the top right corner of the frame.

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Elma @maybelmamazed.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another photo from our holiday (the end is in sight😅) for #FingerpostFriday and #StileSaturday #YorkshireDales 💚 @lakesstiles.bsky.social

A squeeze stone stile and wooden gate in a dry-stone wall, with a public footpath fingerpost, green fields and hills beneath a cloudy sky.

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Ben Potts @benjaminsteven.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Friday to you.

An expansive view across a rocky crag to a wide river valley, green fields and a sky filled with dappled clouds.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The lighthouse on Pladda, south of Arran, with Ailsa Craig beyond, this week in 2020.

An island with a lighthouse on it. The lighthouse is white with a red top. Beyond and to the right is a tall rocky island. The sky is cream and pale blue.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Etymology of the day: the expression ‘you have another thing coming’ was originally ‘you have another think coming’: today’s version appeared within a year of the original, back in the 1800s. A short piece on the joyful messiness of linguistic evolution. susiedent.substack.com/p/another-th...

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Another think coming

How linguistic evolution is as messy as it is joyful

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Grant Bulloch @bulloch.photography · 24/09/2026

A tale of two castles. Kilchurn in the rain the day before presented little to photograph and then Castle Stalker the next morning in quiet but changeable conditions. At least it brought a bit of colour, and a few otters to watch. #photography #landscapephotography #photographers

A castle on an island with dark moody skies behind and light reflecting off the waters in front

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Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The #ADoorableThursday portal that leads to the station buffet tea rooms in Barter Books, Alnwick, the incredible secondhand bookshop in the former railway station. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pen #drawing #Artshare

Rows of bookshelves leading the eye to a doorway with an arched fanlight with letters proclaiming the room beyond the door to be a station buffet. It is in fact the tearoom of a secondhand bookshop that was once a railway station.

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Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Blue sky stilin' in Wester Ross. Sadly for me, but probably thankfully for you, I couldn't get the Trotternish Ridge in this angle so you don't have to put up with my blue Skye pun. On BlueSky.

Solid two step wooden stile over fence with hand rail to steady the wobbly stiler, and a notice on the stile that says something about livestock. It's in a field near the sea, with an island on the horizon.

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Elma @maybelmamazed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This double bank of drystone walling contains Sedber Lane (a former packhorse way) which leads down from Grassington to Linton Falls on the River Wharfe in the #YorkshireDales #WallsOnWednesday

A stone-walled path leads through fields towards Linton Falls, with rolling hills and dramatic clouds in the distance.

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Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

An old favourite, taken on this day in 2019 up in the Westfjords of #Iceland 🦭🍂

A seal sits on a clump of kelp, looking around at the camera. Beyond are autumnal slopes with a couple of ephemeral waterfalls and some fog above the hills. The colours are reflected in a fjord.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Leaving Arran OTD in 2020

View from a ship back towards an island at sunset. There are dark lines in the water stretching back towards the black outline of the island. The sky is yellow above the land, rising through grey to blue above.

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