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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Wildflowerhour Bit early but this red clover is fighting the good fight in what was a very autumnal South Lanarkshire morning (ie horizontal rain).

Red clover standing out against very green grass.

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did some sums ... 160 WaderTales blogs about waders/shorebirds. Over 270,000 words - longer than the longest 'Harry Potter' book - the equivalent of three average-length novels. Recent Oystercatcher blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/a... Catalogue: wadertales.wordpress.com/about/ #birds

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Got to visit a nice lagg woodland off a lowland raised bog recently. Plenty of dead wood both standing and lying.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Beautiful male wheatear on way into town, probably my favourite summer visitors.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#BirdingGear Any advice on scopes please? I have an ancient opticron which is huge, heavy and old but that works well. Preferably small and light and that won't require a second mortgage.

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm writing WaderTales blog #160 about a fantastic global Whimbrel study. Lots of info re migration, subspecies, threats, conservation etc to cram into 1500 words. Reckon WaderTales must be up to 250,000 words by now! Catalogue: wadertales.wordpress.com/about/ #ornithology

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Also, I have some lovely sphagnum.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Look at this wonderful standing deadwood, just one of many on one site.

A dead tree with branches all around the trunk below a cloudy but blue sky.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

First pink-foots! Beautiful day and firmly feels like autumn now.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: Quicksand Giant clams Nuclear war Daddy long legs The flying monkeys in the Wizard of Oz (well, until I was about 9) The weird oil painting of a clown in my bedroom The African masks my parents had on the wall. Davros

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #BirdBuddies House sparrow and starling, both species living in my roof.

House sparrow and starling sitting on a cable next to gable end of roof.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #Thrushes Song thrush singing atop of the Scots pine in the garden.

Thrush sitting on top of a pine tree, outlined again the sky, beak open mid-song.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A sad-ish end to swallow season. For the second time a sparrowhawk raided a nest and took the last two chicks. It might be a blessing, they were only a few days old and it's getting late. Interesting array of feathers in the nest though!

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British Dragonfly Society @britishdragonflies.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Small action. Big Impact. 🐉💚 Your donation could make a big difference for dragonflies! We have launched a fundraising campaign to raise £50,000 as dragonflies and wetlands need our help more than ever. 👉 Donate today - www.justgiving.com/campaign/hel...

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#SeedHeads #WildFlowerHour Gorse seedhead, possibly not the bonniest this time of year, especially after a lot rain.

Brown seedhead within green spiky foliage.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

For the love of the gods. If you don't understand something in a show, that doesn't mean that it's a plot hole. The show is not your fan fiction! Fan fiction and fast food delivery is why society is as it is.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Bob Dylan The Cure Mark Lanegan The Cult Suzanne Vega Patti Smith QOTSA The Joy Formidable Big Country Guns n Roses

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #Blue Some black headed gulls stealing a kip.

Three adult black headed gulls in winter plumage, roost on a small fishing boat which is covered with a blue tarpaulin.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #Coastal&River #Rocky Gull on a rock at Ayr beach ticks both boxes.

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Gernot Segelbacher 🪶 🧬 @gsegelbacher.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Christine Grossen demonstrating the reason of low survival in Central European lynx . Lethal alles first time demonstrated in the wild

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #NaturalSeeds Another goldfinch, but you can never have enough!

A goldfinch sits among golden thistle heads

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A flock of about 30+ Mistle thrushes this morning- feels a bit early to see them congregating like this but maybe it's not. Larger group than the last two years.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Bit early for #wildflowerhour this week. Unable to find a #wallflower as the thyme is now past it. But it's heather season! So have some heather by a fence, some milkwort and tormentil. I love tormentil, grows everywhere and flowers for ages.

Some bright purple Heather growing along side a wire stock fence.

Some yellow Tormentil growing among green grass with a couple of purple milkwort flowers behind.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Anyone any good with bird pellets? Found this one very fresh this morning and was thinking corvid. Not so sure on breaking it apart, one set of jaw bones, other small bone fragments, some grit amd hair. #ScottishBirds #ScottishBirding #UKBirds

A greens brown bird pellet about 5cm long

Pellet slightly broken apart- jaw bone of small mammal evident

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Owen Staton - Time between Times @owenstaton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A new journey into the #TimeBetweenTimes… My latest episode I travel to Cae Ellyllon in Mold the Field of the Goblins where people spoke of a mysterious gold figure standing upon an ancient mound. In 1833, workmen uncovered something beneath that very mound… open.spotify.com/episode/22jx...

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Time between Times Storytelling with Owen Staton. The Golden cape of Mold. A Welsh Ghost Story

Time Between Times Storytelling with Owen Staton · Episode

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #ColourfulCharacters a very handsome drake at the local pond, a chaffinch from the garden and a winter stonechat from Lendalfoot.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

So this was last year but it's the same today :)

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It's that kind of day 😅

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Oh I give up with stupid site- how come my photos look fine on my phone gallery or pc but out of focus on here?

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #AwesomeOwls Not a great photo but I was quite far away and didn't want to spook him and only had my little camera. I'd been surveying here all season so to clock him just in my way out on my last visit was a treat. Floofy LEO.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Cheating again for #BirdOfTheDay #Mothers and reusing my female Wheatear photo- she has a beak full of inverts for her brood.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#BirdOfTheDay #StrikeAPose Nothing very flashy but I always love a little brown job. Meadow pipit on a gate and a male white throat in a classic pose.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Listening to @carolinelucas.bsky.social and @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social on @therestpolitics.bsky.social. When will @rory-stewart.bsky.social understand that climate change will knacker our countryside anyway? And when will he recognise the biodiversity crisis?

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Won't be the only one to post Devil's bit scabious. Apparently the devil bit off the root in a fit of pique over the plants medicinal qualities. Used to treat scabies, hence 'scabious' taken from its Latin name. #wildflowerhour #CommonNames

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#UnusualPlaces #SereneBirdScene #BirdOfTheDay Curlew in evening at Loch Etive and a female Wheatear who decided to raise a brood under a busy set of steps (albeit in the uplands). Broods successfully raised.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Trying again- #BirdOfTheDay #50ShadesOfGrey Common and Black headed gull at local loch. Cropped it in a bit.

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Francesca @fgnunn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I'm cheating again and I am trying to get photos of the whitethroats in the garden but possibly don't have the lens or the patience! So have some Muscovy ducklings from 2020. Merlin, from my post the other day, is in there somewhere. #BirdOfTheDay #Ducklings

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