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Don Beeglès

@donbeegles.bsky.social
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#Bee-keeper, meadow manager, #EHP, #librarian & #taxonomist, #photographer (Canon & Fuji), #charter #sailor, #T1D, #Physics grad, family history & retired gent of Wombwell, UK. (Oh, and dad as well.)

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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
not the usual view of #Scarborough castle
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rose bay willow herb dispensing seeds like sparklers #DalbyForest #Leica
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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What to look for in late summer - Spotted Flycatchers on the woodland/field edge putting on weight before their long journey down to sub-Saharan Africa. They like the long line of sight that a branch over the field margin offers - the best specimens can be picked-off with ease. #Dorset 🦉🌿
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Putting the finishing touches to a pattern weld steel #nakiri knife #damascus #westdeancollege-
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The land remains parched here at #WestDean #Suss. In the distance an #AndyGoldsworthy sculpture abides amid the dry pasture where sheep attempt to graze.
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Andrew Rait @andrewrait.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
And of course the real focus of anger (those who systematically destroyed judiciary & penal institutions since 2010) escape the rightful wrath of the public/press. Cameron & Osborne have so much to blame for the state of UK today 🤬🤬
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
That's where the chucks have been laying their eggs, deep in a nettlebed . . . now revealed by my scythe #hens
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The pyramidal #orchids are starting to look good here in Bedfordshire #Chilterns
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
substack.com/@frankgardne...
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Frank Gardner (@frankgardner)
Wrens can often be quite tricky to photograph. They’ll jump up onto a prominent branch, burst into song, then as soon as you’ve got them in focus they’re gone. But this one in Suffolk obligingly staye...
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
substack.com/@frankgardne...
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Frank Gardner (@frankgardner)
Wrens can often be quite tricky to photograph. They’ll jump up onto a prominent branch, burst into song, then as soon as you’ve got them in focus they’re gone. But this one in Suffolk obligingly staye...
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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nest construction (and here lining) of second brood Chiffchaff nests are underway here despite the inclement weather. #birds
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The chequers are ripening . . . #wildservice #tree
Fruit of the wild service tree - chequers
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I believe the Judas tree blossom is under-rated - it always surprises me when it suddenly appears . . . #gardening
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
@iand777.bsky.social a slightly off focus greenfinch for you 😉
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The pyramidal #orchids are just starting in South #Bedfordshire #Canon #meadows
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
A red kite shelters from the blustery winds of #Bedfordshire today. #Canon
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
#buttercups are starting to supersede #cowslips in the #meadow . . . .
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
my #bees had good foraging today . . . . #Bedfordshire
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
It's warming up in the USA - highest temperatures since records began in 1895 . . . and chronic drought emerging in the western states. 'Course, it's all a scam 😉
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
'Private Eye' nails it again #cartoon #Hormuz
Carton illustrating how crude Brent oil is
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
The red currant is flowering on sleepy south Bedfordshire- the signal to start checking our #bee hives 👌🏻😎
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Japanese Quince, Chaenomeles × superba 'Pink Lady' reminding me of better things to come. #Spring #flowers #Fuji #photography
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Rhubarb is coming on right nice! #Fuji #photography
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PrairieSam 🇨🇦 @prairiesam.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Trump is purposefully trying to bring an end to NATO. He couldn't do it by a hostile takeover of Greenland so mow he's insulting ever man & woman in uniform who fought along side the US is Afghanistan. He truly is Putin's puppet
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Signs of #Spring in sleepy Bedfordshire . . . the #rhubarb is coming through in my dad's chimney pot 😀
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The shrine of #StAlban at St Albans cathedral #Hertfordshire #UK
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Shadow on the beach at Dawlish after Storm Bram #photography #enigma
Shadow on the beach at Dawlish UK
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Stormy moonlight in Dawlish #Devon #UK #seawall
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Great White #Egret nabs a huge fish . . . but Grey #Heron spoils it . . . #CollegeLake #Tring #birds #photography #Canon
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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Delighted to publish this personal essay by me and John: Getting Britain out of the hole. We wanted to write something quite readable that covers the big picture of the UK’s economic struggles. Hopefully we’ve managed at least one of those! @johnspringford.bsky.social getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
No sign of #Aurora in Dunstable tonight
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy."
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The preposterous #McSweeney must go immediately, if not sooner. #Labour
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Malala looking furtive on the duvet this morning #dogs
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Here to see "Entertaining Mr Sloane" #YoungVic #London #Theatre
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Meadow vista through my #Zeiss Distagon 17mm ultrawide lens. Lovely! #photography #Leica
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Mountain ash leaves in the Autumn sunshine #photography #contrejour #Canon #Bedfordshire
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Field maple in the autumn sunshine #photography #nature #Distagon #Leica #contrajour
a field maple covered in ivy surrounded by colourful leaves in the autumn sunshine
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I can't quite see the #glider pilot . . . . #Dunstable #photography
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Almost all our local grey #squirrels are in fact jet black. We rarely see a grey and (of course) red is entirely absent. #Bedfordshire #nature #photography
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Out and about this afternoon with a 2x extender on my zoom lens doing test photos on local #raptors. I'm not convinced by the extender (fringing, softness, unwieldiness) and will likely exchange it . . . . the 100-400 L Mk2 is enough by itself 👍 #birds #Canon #photography #Bedfordshire
red kitered kitebuzzard?kestrel about to pounce
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Rannoch Moor from the Caledonian sleeper, heading south into the night. #Scotland #railtravel #photography #Canon
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range @rangedan.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
misty morning
To the east this Misty morning. Large fir trees on the left in silhouette. The fence off areas of the yard down low and mist in blue skies above
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The last of the roses in my Bedfordshire garden #gardening #photography #Leica #Voigtlander
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Vanishing and Endangered Cultures @nowaykgn.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Imagine it. No toys forged in distant factories, no screens glowing with borrowed dreams. Just 52 rectangles of faded cardboard, edges curled from a thousand shuffles by hands before his. In a life stripped to essentials, imagination is the ultimate wealth.
At nine years old, his world is a frayed jacket passed down from an uncle lost to the snows, boots mended with sinew, and that single, sacred treasure: a battered deck of playing cards, scavenged from a tourist's discard pile in Leh.

No toys forged in distant factories, no screens glowing with borrowed dreams. Just 52 rectangles of faded cardboard, edges curled from a thousand shuffles by hands before his. The kings and queens stare back with imperial indifference, their crowns mocking the barren horizon. But in Tenzin's grip, they're alchemy.

One card missing—the three of hearts, torn away in a storm. He doesn't mourn it; absence is a lesson too. In this vast emptiness, where possessions are burdens carried on weary backs, that deck is freedom. It fits in a pocket, weighs nothing, yet holds infinities: games to banish boredom, stories to trade with strangers, even fuel for the fire if winter turns cruel.

Come dusk, as the family gathers around a dung fire, he transforms the deck into music. Pressing the stack to his lips, he blows gentle breaths through the gaps, coaxing a reedy hum that echoes the Himalayan winds. It's not a harmonica, but in his world, it sings lullabies of forgotten valleys. Changthang means Eastern Flat Land; it is the land of nomads located in the east of Leh on the Chinese border.
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Stinking iris comes good in #Autumn #IrisFoetidissima #Leica #Rokkor
the seeds of Stinking Iris, Bedfordshire UK
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Wild Service leaf litter in #Bedfordshire #autumn #BlueSkyMonday #photography
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
#Ivinghoe beacon from #Totternhoe #landscape #Leica #Voigtlander #photography
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Crafty ciggy in Shaldon #streetphotography #blackandwhite #photography #Fuji #juxtaposition
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Don Beeglès @donbeegles.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
unexpected gathering at Bolt Head, #Devon #photography #blackandwhite #Canon #horses
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