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Young Gannets practicing their fishing skills at Seaton Carew yesterday (NE England.) I only saw one catch a fish, and it was immediately mugged by a young gull - which was subsequently mugged by an adult gull, who was then assaulted by crows…😕 🪶 @teesbirds.bsky.social

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Surprised to see a few Sandwich Terns still at North Gare today - think the one on the left is a juvenile? @teesbirds.bsky.social

A group of Sandwich Terns standing on a sea-washed beach - Hartlepool, northeast England

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

More interesting fungi from Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire, last month. 🐡 #fungi

Pen and watercolour sketches of fungi from North Yorkshire - Fairy Inkcap, Blusher and Hen of the Woods

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Jonathan Pomroy @jonathanpomroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A week today, October 1st, my Birdscapes Gallery exhibition opens in North Norfolk, finishing 1/11/26. The exhibition will be available to view online later this week. For further details see jonathanpomroy.wordpress.com and www.birdscapes.co.uk

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Merely a mizzle Breathing over stone-hard land; Beneath, it’s bone dry. #haikuSaturday

Photo of a dark rain cloud over a tree-edged field in County Durham, Northeast England

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September’s garden bugs. These are not to scale - lacewing larvae are, thankfully, tiny, but still terrifying if you’re an aphid. 🐡 #invertebrates

Pen and watercolour sketches of invertebrates from a garden in northeast England

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Grey Plover at North Gare last week - very smart little bird! Plus Curlew, Oystercatcher and Redshank. Pen and watercolour sketches. 🪶🐡 #birdingNorthEast #waders

Sketches of Grey Plover and other shorebirds at Teesmouth, northeast England

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Think I’ve got Spear-leaved and Grass-leaved Orache? Or variable forms of Common Orache? Plus Frosted Orache in the second post below. Teesmouth, North Gare. (1/2) #wildflowerHour #wildflowerID

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ivy Bees have arrived! Three on our ivy yesterday. 🐝 #invertebrates @teesbirds.bsky.social

Ivy Bee (Colletes) on flowering ivy - Hartlepool, northeast England

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Susan (Morhar) Andrews @andrewssusanm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#HaikuSaturday #haiku seasonal visitors... acorns knock on rooftops Please add a version if you feel like it. If you want your version posted with the other versions please include the hashtag #VersionsHaikuSaturday.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Easterton Of Roseisle Stone - a Class 1 Pictish Symbol Stone discovered at Moray in 1894. The stone probably dates to the 5th or 6th centuries, and is now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own #StandingStoneSunday #Picts

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ghosts, locked in dark rocks. Coal-age creatures - stay stone, or You’ll see what we did. #haikuSaturday

Close-up photograph of Carboniferous coral fossils in black limestone found at Hartlepool, northeast England

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Jonathan Pomroy @jonathanpomroy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

House martins depart as pink- footed geese arrive! A blog at jonathanpomroy.wordpress.com Plus a look at my forthcoming exhibitions this autumn.

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Weirdly blue lichen at the beach yesterday - possibly Ramalina siliquosa that’s been exposed/covered with something? There were several separate tufts all the same colour. There was remains of a campfire nearby 🤨 (northeast England). #lichen #fungiFriday #nature #fungi

A lichen on a rock that's a strange turquoise blue colour

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fungi from a walk near Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire - the IDs are mostly tentative, in some cases non-existent! But a huge variety of shapes and colours. Pen and watercolour drawings. #fungiFriday #fungi #nature

Pen and watercolour drawings of a variety of fungi from Strid Wood, Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire (UK)

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sketches of plants from the beach and dunes at Seaton Carew - some interesting ones on the area where the tern colony had protected the beach from disturbance and the council tractor. (NE England) 🐡 #wildflowers #botany

Pen and watercolour sketches of plants from Seaton Carew, northeast England. Clockwise from top left: Red Bartsia, Sea Rocket, Sea Holly, Eyebright, Sea Spurrey, Prickly Saltwort and Chicory.

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Meadow Pipits feeding on the Saltmarsh plants at Teesmouth - can anyone recommend a book or website on saltmarsh ecology and how plants adapt to those conditions? Doesn’t have to be British if it deals with the general principles. (Watercolour painting.) 🪶🐡 @teesbirds.bsky.social #botany

Watercolour painting of three meadow pipits feeding on glasswort and sea-blite plants on low saltmarsh, Teesside, northeast England

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I was a day too early for the Yellowlegs at Saltholme, so instead here are some Ruff sketches. 🐡🪶 #art #nature @teesbirds.bsky.social

Pen and watercolour sketches of Ruff (juveniles?)

Field sketch in watercolour of landscape at RSPB Saltholme, northeast England

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Watercolour studies of Glasswort and Sea Blite from the salt marshes at Teesmouth this week. 🐡 #wildflowers #botany

Watercolour painting of Purple Glasswort, Annual Sea Blite and Long-stalked Glasswort

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Never mind the Bayeux Tapestry, look at the Seaton Snail Weaving! (I believe the script is known as Molluscule, but researchers have been unable to interpret the meaning 😉

Snail trails on a sandy beach in northeast England

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Richard Lewington @rlewington2.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Celebrating receiving an advance copy of my new Magnum Opus (with 4,000 images), by catching a Clifden Nonpareil on the same day.

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Balloon animals Cast adrift, washed up - took root, Grew into new life. #haikuSaturday

Photo of Purple Glasswort and Annual Sea Blite growing in the Tees Estuary, North East England

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Birds on the salt marshes, Seaton Snook - lovely to see the Whinchats, surprisingly well hidden in the green and purple marsh plants (thank you to the birder who pointed them out to me!) I will have to do a separate page for the plants… 🪶🐡 #wildlifeart #birdingNorthEast @teesbirds.bsky.social

Pen and watercolour sketches of gannet, Sandwich tern, meadow pipit and Whinchat around Seaton Common, Teesmouth, northeast England

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

August’s garden bugs - I shouldn’t play favourites, but the Brown Argus was a new one, so particularly exciting! And shieldbugs are always cute. #invertebrates 🐡 #sketches

Sketches of insects seen in a Teesside garden in August 2026

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Borrowed this from the library - 20 years old but interesting reading (how times change!) Are there any plans for an up-to-date version? @teesbirds.bsky.social @teesmouthbirdclub.bsky.social

Cover of ‘Birds of Cleveland’ by M A Blick, 2009

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teesmouthbirdclub.bsky.social @teesmouthbirdclub.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Reminder for first indoor meeting of new season. Senegal & Gambia by Colin Dodsworth at Stockton on Tees central library @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

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Saunieindiego @saunieindiego.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Lights out for birds! Please share! #migration #BirdsMatter

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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Jo Hackl @johackl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Celebrating #haikuSaturday (after taking to the books to teach myself the parts of the sunflower bloom): phyllaries unfold ray florets free, flare, and flex nature's rhythmic flow #poetry #haiku

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Stonechat fledglings, Teesmouth; watercolour painting. 🪶🐡 #wildlifeArt @teesbirds.bsky.social

Watercolour painting of two Stonechat fledglings amongst grass and flower seedheads

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Watercolour of recent beach finds from northeast England. I suspect the Langoustine claw may not have got there through natural means - probably someone’s seafood picnic! 🐡 #art #seashells 🦀🦞 #fossils

Watercolour painting of beach finds - claws of Norway Lobster and Velvet Swimming Crab; coral fossils; fragment of a sea urchin and shells of cockles and cowrie

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Ribwort Plantain in the garden that’s gone a bit curly-wurly (fasciation?) #wildflowerHour

A ribwort plantation with its leaf rosette growing from the top of the stem instead of the bottom

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Wild Marjoram/Oregano is absolutely the best plant in our garden - thrives whatever the weather, looks nice, smells gorgeous, and everyone in the garden makes use of it! #wildlife #gardens #wildflowers

Wood Mouse checking out the oregano seeds

Brown Argus butterfly on oregano flowers

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

There’s the leafmould smell On sharpened air - shifting light Glints on Cranefly wings. #haikuSaturday

Photo of a Cranefly hanging from a grass stem

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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Harbour porpoises are in danger. Oil giant ExxonMobil wants to build a carbon capture site in the North Sea. They want to blast the ocean floor with sound cannons—for 3 months, nonstop. Let’s call on the German govt to say NO the plans! act.sumofus.org/go/761561?t=...

Harbour porpoise with upper body out of the water

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Some wildflowers have seed heads that are truly spectacular! The challenge this week is to find some and then share your lovely pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #SeedHeads! Any wild or naturalised blooms you find too are of course always welcome!

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Gannets in the bay - lovely to get good views of these fabulous birds; I wonder if they inspired some of the designs in early medieval manuscripts? They seem to resemble some of the illustrations, and the monks in Northumbria would surely have known them. 🐡🪶 #superSeabirdSunday

Watercolour painting illustration of fishing gannets, Hartlepool Bay.

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

So I’ve got a Brown Argos in the garden - which is a first! - but is it northern or southern? What do you think @teesbirds.bsky.social (the app says Brown Argus but it’s got that white spot, very obvious in life, less so in the photo.) #butterflies

Photo of a Brown Argus butterfly in a Hartlepool garden

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A lobster handshake - plus a Pennant’s Swimming Crab and the cold water coral Dead Man’s Fingers. Beach finds from Seaton Carew, northeast England. Watercolour painting. 🐡 #beach #crustaceans #invertebrates #wildlife

Watercolour painting of a lobster claw, a Pennant’s Swimming Crab and Dead Man’s Fingers coral

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Beautiful lichens on a rock near an old lime kiln in North Yorkshire - Lecanora campestris? And probably others. #lichen #fungi #lichens

Lichens growing on calcareous rock, North Yorkshire, northeast England

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Stonechat fledglings, Seaton Common - you must admit they are cute 🥰 @teesbirds.bsky.social 🪶

Photo of two juvenile Stonechats perched on a hogweed stem, Seaton Common, northeast England

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

July’s garden bugs - several new species of bee and moth! 🐡 #invertebrates #bees #moths

Sketches of insects seen in a garden in Hartlepool during July 2026

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The air felt heavy, Like hot glue, holding you down; Skin burnt, bones melting. #haikuSaturday

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Found this nice moth in Middlesbrough (UK) a few weeks ago but haven’t been able to get a positive ID. What do you think? @teesbirds.bsky.social #moths #invertebrates

Photo of a large moth with brown and cream markings

Photo of a large moth with brown and cream markings, on grass

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Two young Stonechats with (presumably) Mum supervising. They were perched on a dead piece of Sea Buckthorn in the dunes at Seaton Carew. Watercolour painting from my own photos and sketches. 🪶🐡 #birdingNorthEast

Watercolour painting. Two fledgling Stonechats with an adult female perched on a Dead Sea Buckthorn with a background of se and early morning sky. Seaton Carew beach, northeast England.

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