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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 8h

& gloam shows between fractious showers & as you go rabbits scatter & a tawny owl hoos the movements of tail-lights below & arclights on hillsides a neighbour waves from their curtainless kitchen as your headtorch bobs by

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

& all day pied wagtail repeats dee-deet, sometimes matching yr keystrokes - increases volume when the pheasantshooters assert their anthrophony, becomes an earworm as they leave when rain arrives from the west

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

& blackbird dinking time with scrap of rainbow, afterglow encouraging dark to exhale from wearied fields, but light lingers on water & pools in a basin of woods - an uneven skein of pinkfooted geese moves west to find the glint that for them means roost

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

& the gateway is an eye that reflects & gathers leaves, copper beeches tarnishing heavy & shabby - jackdaws are revisiting roosts & bewildered pheasants worldbuild by cloking from cover: a single robin enacts a map the dunnock trespasses

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

west & red kite quartering, desireline of an otter; bar-tailed godwit sunk in mud, little egret with suspiciously clean shoes

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

coastal. far low tide & everything distant. raptors (kestrel, buzzard) sweep scrub & merse. such geese that are on the flats (barnacle) occasionally spill themselves to settle. common darter with glitched eye buzzes you. butterfly a comma, the thin daymoon.

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

& yr winter neighbour joins you for coffee

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

you need do no such thing - just checking in with you. So glad you are OK.

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

october. sun low from the outset & moon high, changing places. friction of dry leaves, their papery withdrawal. damp of morning. damp of evening. sweet & deep reduction begins. hill constellations configure again. the sky is an old but unfamiliar language you learn again.

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

& last of September false moon in cloudroil & skies churn out a pressure front the gather & break gone Michaelmas from here negotiations with dark

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

<represses other examples> except eyebrowns. that one fgs.

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

& 3rd night in a row the ripped lead flashing on a fencepost is a robin, perched; the lane luminous blue as the town's light pollution starts to effervesce; across Solway the 80s kid in you finds a graphic equaliser (military grade), & in such gloom after a long day you go

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

& 1st thing, mist levering up off the damp land (ghosts of watercourses), small moon falling towards flightpaths

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

& learn to walk the dark again (haptics of gradient & turn firming up almost 9 months here), spare headlamp for moon (upper right rubbing away already) & it candles on the lochan (mallards burbling somewhere, kwik & quibble of tawny owl), dandelion clock running slow in final phase

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

& caught out by early sunset moon already up when you set off strafed leaves feathering its telescopic view blackbirds dinking alarm in woods' underbrush lane through the farmyard flooded with light sky still & open to cold Venus a gritty garnet

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

& the deep blue receding NE, pulling colour out from all it leaves behind

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

& the changing front you lie awake as all the doors creak

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

rolling billow of cloud but then september's full moon lit bright through a tear in the fabric

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ebbtide, between sea & tree filled with small, bitter apples - an oak that has grown horizontally creeps on soilless rock above headheight; receding strands feathers & ziplok bag of jellyfish, curlews begin to work the strand

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

& the rashy field filled spills into gravity & pools hinge & returned mallards group (a sarcasm of) & the moon 1 night from full brims over

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Depeche Mode earworm arrives uninvited

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

will not. Be good to you. Hope for outbreak of efficiency & clarity.

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

& grey heron brings sky into the field to strut for pickings, doubles themselves on take-off & evening arrives early

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@thehoursgodsends.bsky.social - alerted the moon was up by indicator light in tatter

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

& equinox settles to shed light before leaf, pink footed geese trickling in - moonrise through insect-strafed leaf (91%, moving clear), a small fire to mark the day

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

& morning of the equinox, field below the house is low rumble & hoo as cows do dawn roll-call, steady rain & traffichiss from the main drag - but some promise SSE as cloud gives up the hill

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

& sky thickens midafternoon, dingy light turning changing leaves grubby, but stirring in the bright moss base of the oak: treecreeper #birds

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

& the coluring up to break down, a stunned aspect to everything at a time of waiting (bramble season over &, week of the equinox, 32 minutes' less light in 7 days) - a diving little grebe is all on the lochan, sun in the hedgerows at 17.30

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

hump-backed bridge, young cormorant - bill rivershingle offgrey - loitering, twists their head to notice, time to go

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

just unlocked that smell from memory... can say nothing else but I hear you

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

pink footed geese, right out of the arctic circle & southing into morning, chorus of rusty saws working over towards the coast

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

& out after moonset, out as pipistrelles emerge (a tawny owl birls down out of white sky on sight), at the lochan trees lay out to stretch where last light pools - heron's rawrk locates them set down to roost (you are both unsettled), from hilltop transmitter, smoking dark

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

woken before light by the calls of pink footed geese: squeaky gate of autumn is open

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

this morning, commute among corvids in claggy air, dew de-stealthing spiderwebs, exhale of dawn

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

high tide of shallow pewter, water hard enough cormorant's takeoff steps stand, soft enough for little egret's bill; harvest eldeberries by the path, end-of-season speckled wood flittering, garden spider (inverted, big as a bramble) has found a niche they seal off with mist-net

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

& the ditches gurgle 1st time in months, the lane filled with chaffinches gorging on haw & blown seed (curious calves follow a spell), hirundine hawking on the hill, & hornbeam levering keys to position for launch

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

a strange, uncanny dusktime: light refracted & gauzy, sun nimbused - smoke from Canadian arctic fires, the news says, arriving over the Atlantic, makes for hazy & soft gloam, temperatures falling quickly

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

this is my patch for annual february beached bird survey, gauging how seabirds have fared over winter

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Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

wish a swop my have been possible!

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