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@drumarland.bsky.social
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Canal dweller, wildlife drawer, pronoun user (she/her)

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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Cycling along the towpath. Constriction ahead, overhanging brambles; three cyclists approaching. I stop and wave them through. ‘Thank you!’ ‘Thank you!’ ‘SMILE!’ the last one shouts as he passes. Thanks, that really helps
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
At last the green woodpecker who’s been yaffling away every day, paused for a photo opportunity. And there’s a toad too
Green woodpecker perched on a railing Toad in the canal
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The local swan family on morning patrol
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Johnny Morris on a boat @nbjohnniefaa.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Sheep can be a bit of a surprise sometimes too!
A sheep staring intimidatingly through a narrowboat window
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A short walk in the cool of the dawn. Startling bellowing of a cow in the night; there’s a herd in the adjacent field. How like the foghorn is the cow When moos come unexpectedly. I thought I was alone; but now There’s loads of them right next to me.
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Thank goodness, someone moved their boat this morning so I slipped Eve into a mooring where the row of poplars on the other side of the canal offer shade from mid-afternoon onwards. Still hard work, this weather, but counting my blessings
The gangplank onto Eve’s welldeckEve moored up in the shade Thermometer at 1830 - 30C indoors, 28 outdoors
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Poem for a hot day on the canal
Picture of a lolly, with a poem


The hoverflies have come to greet

The newly-blossomed meadowsweet

And dragonflies nod from the stalk

Beside the towpath where we walk,

Glad of the shade the ash tree casts

From the sun's heat that makes us gasp

Perhaps for Pimms, or maybe Bolly?

No; Fran would like a Sky Ray Lolly.
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Hummingbird hawk moth, being attentive to a patch of valerian
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The gean is busy with chuckling blackbirds and pigeons, cos the cherries are almost ripe and that’s good enough for them.
My canal boat almost hidden by the hemlock water dropwort, and a gean (wild cherry) tree
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
A new picture, using pencil. So I’m putting it here as another start at using Bluesky… hello again
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Oh yes, and this is my new map of Somerset
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Cosgrove_Outdoors @dermotncosgrove.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Happy St Brigid’s Day!
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Happy St Brigid’s Day! Oystercatchers are called ‘Gille-Brìghde’ in Gaelic- ‘Brigid’s servant’ - because they saved her life once
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share videos, photos & artwork of seabirds to brighten timelines. Here is a close up of a stunning European Shag to get us started #SuperSeabirdSunday
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Starting the RSPB birdwatch
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
A lump of elm glowing like a coal, in the stove. It’s supposed to be not very good for burning, but the wood of this long-dead tree is excellent and hot
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Freezing dawn. Redwings in the hawthorns
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Stop it, you lot
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Opened the hatch for a bit of stargazing. Orion’s well up in the sky now. Blooming cold wind though. Retired to bed to warm up
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
A useful miracle for Christmas; St Werburgh miraculously restores a goose to body and life after a servant ate it, earning the grateful thanks of the flock
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
A misty dawn at Diggers
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
keeping warm in the boat
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Thumbing through the British Trades Alphabet for 1969. Did you get this at school too?
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Accidentally overfilled the handwarmer yesterday- it’s still hot after 12 hours or so, which is nice on a chilly morning
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Full moon over Avoncliff, viewed from the aqueduct over the Avon
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Parched peas for a winter’s day
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
A chilly dawn with the last sliver of the moon
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Pulled this big lump of tree out with these chaps’ help
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
What a lot of rain! River level's rising...
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Just downloaded a video-making app, so here’s my first effort with it…
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Clear night now, and I can see Orion from the comfort of my bed. Time to put the kettle on though
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
*blows the dust off her Bluesky account…* hello again!
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
“This IS the Kennet and Avon?” “Yeah, there’s the river Avon but that’s through Bath, nowhere near us” Walkers passing on the towpath, 100 yards from the Avon (but a different Avon!)
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
The place where there used to be an angel’s feather, but now there’s just a hungry spider
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
A brace of Sekidens. Ideal for plinking each other with duck pellets, and the ducks appreciate it too
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
My map of the Bristol Avon
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Yet another bicycle to add to my collection. This is an Elswick Hopper
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
it was a bit worrying this morning, tuning in for the Shipping Forecast to find that it wasn't there. It turned up later. Seems they've jiggered the schedule around
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It's busy here - frogs croaking (and ahem-ing) away, and barn owl ghosting around the field
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
fixed fourth puncture in a fortnight today. Glad to have moved the boat past Hawthorn Alley…
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
The first cowslips! On the upper wharf at Bradford on Avon
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
On the egg of the guillemot, for #SuperSeabirdSunday
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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos and artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is my contribution, a ‘bridled’ Guillemot on the Isle of May #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
A lively dawn, promising stormy weather
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This morning’s dawn. Blackbirds singing
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Updates my phone software and had to choose a new ringtone. Several calls almost missed because I thought “that’s a noisy duck outside…” #DuckRingtone
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
A quick morning picture, based on this old chap at Woolhampton lock
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@wessex-wyvern.bsky.social
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The head came off my maul when I was hammering mooring pins in. Fixing it back…
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Dru @drumarland.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Crane Day on Bradford wharf; the boats that’ve been on hard standing over the winter we’re being lifted back into the water today
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