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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 11h

Very lovely sun rise to start the day.

Sky with orange at the bottom and stripes of pink in the cloud.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Currently existing in a bowl of sunshine and delight encircled by cloud. Birds are delighted with the weather.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every morning is a mixture of loveliness and climate concern. Needing rain as we do. Listening to magpies, jacks, crows and Robins as I walk.

Path through a woodland with light breaking though.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Garden's ivy starting to fill with bees. 💚🐝

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Beautiful. We had a sunset like this visiting Norfolk at new year. Gasp worthy. Completely wrapped around us.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

With creative use of the watercolours of @drrjwarren.bsky.social some hobby art #embroidery on @staceysoloman.bsky.social napkins.

2 beige linen napkins one embroidered with a golden plover the other an avocet.

2 beige linen napkins one embroidered with a redshank the other an sandpiper

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Decided another day trip was in order. Drive to Poole. Lytchett Reserve (marsh Harrier) last minute ticket on @harbourbirds.bsky.social autumn safari this afternoon. Up on Ham Common for sunset. Tidy. 4 eagles, 2 osprey including Mighty Titch with a fish, lots of other lovelies. #ukbirder

View of Poole Harbour from Ham Common viewpoint.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Very nice day put at Dungeness Very long bird list with lots of goodies. Met some great birding folk and got good guidance on idents. Consequently some of the standouts were Arctic Skuas, velvet scoters and red throated divers. So wonderful to see the swallows off. #UKbirding #Kentbirding

Board walk stretches out to sea with a bench at the end. Turquoise sea and a grey sky toned dark up to light.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Critical reflection alone is like painting only in red — and then judging people by how well they paint in red. When we add compassionate, appreciative and creative reflection - we get the whole palette. More ways of seeing, understanding and imagining what could be different.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Final paddle & snooze at Uisken. Filled with folks enjoying the sun & warm. Walk to the fossil leaves. Dramatic landscape, found the gully, not the leaves. Always good to have something for next time. Now I know the way. Wish farmers would not put rusty barbed wire on gate posts. #Mull #IsleOfMull

Basalt headland, black columns of rocks plunging into a calm sea. Loch and headland beyond, blue sky above.

White sandy bay between headland. Calm turquiose sea, ble sky.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Will try to see if I can see the eclipse.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A stunning day best weather ever. A walk along the Pottie path followed by a paddle. Ravens, one who came to tell me to stop singing, standing stone, far distant white tail, lapwing, greylags, and many more. Seal came close responding to my voice by being a little brave. #isleofmull #Mull #UKbirds

Pottie standing stone with Ardmeanach and Ben More and a clear blue sky.

Green paddle board on small coral beach and Kintra pink granite tombolo. Blue sky above.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Lovely afternoon at Ardalaneish. Golden eagles over the headland when we arrived. The wind dropped and sun came out. Birds a swallows started to come out. Beautiful colours and of course geology. #Mull #IsleofMull

Layered rocks in a bay of sand with sea behind and blue sky with cirrus clouds above.

Rocky hill with purple heather and bracken behind a sandy beach.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Great weather again today. Walk to St Colomba's Bay on #Iona , met some fun people, dolphins in the sound with the #Iolaire as we walked back to the car.

View across the swa towards Jura. With swirling grey clouds above.

View over the Bay at the Back of the island, with the Dutch man's cap in the far distance. A sweep of sandy bay with rocky headlands and a sandy machair to the right.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Well thats a wrap. Brilliant day.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Absolutely stunning Knockvoligan day. Just a quick note to those arriving to the beach by boat when there is only 1 group of people there - it's a big beach with spots for your barbecue that are not 20 yards north of the only other people on the beach in a southerly. #Mull #IsleofMull

Private boat anchored at Knockvoligan beach.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Lovely trip to Lochbuie. Lunch at the old post office while watching two otters hunt, eat, groom and play. Golden eagles flying over. Walk to Laggan Sands and then the stone circle. #Mull #IsleofMull

Fallow deer stags in long grass and rushes.

Lochbuie stone circle underneath Ben Buie

Photo of a pair of otters on a rocky islet. Taken with a phone camera and kept sime distance away so as not to disturb them.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Beautiful today. Watched a buzzard try to take on a white tailed eagle this morning very close to us. Spinning through the sky talons out. Very absorbing so no photos. Sunshine at Uisken. People having fun.

Small untouched sandy bay and turquoise sea between Heather clad headlands under a blue sky.

View of Ardnameach from the compass point in Tieregan.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Stunning dry day on Knockvoligan with northerly winds a bit too much for paddle boarding. Very beautiful light here. #Mull #IsleofMull

Wide angle view of sandy beach, with sea and small islands in the dustance. Blue sky with a few clouds overhead.

View of Kintra harbour at low tide with and old boat in the foreground.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

All the greys at sunset tonight. Greys in the sky and some greylag geese come to spend the night in the bay.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Mostly stayed in today. Did get out for a couple of short walks. Being a softy from the south who hasn't walked in rain for a bit I enjoyed the rain. And the sight of a full reservoir. All the more so as there are a few dry beach days forecast. #IsleOfMull #Mull

Side of a resevoir with banks of meadow sweet. Rishes and water Lilies on the lake and a chapel in the distance under a grey sky.

View across a reservoir with rushes under grey sky.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Dawn. Just before a front of cloud.

Seascape, foreground of granite and grass, calm sea and dark rocky peninsular mid ground blue sky with clouds beyond. Some dawn light catching on clouds and sea.

Seascape, Some dawn light catching on clouds and sea.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Morning paddle. Going to windier the next few days so may be the last for a few days. Gentle easterlies this morning. Not much wildlife bey9nd the usial which is all a resfresh8ng change from daily life down south. Seals, herons, oyster catchers, gulls, wagtail, cormorants.

View across a dark grey sea with rippling waves to a skein of silhouetted headlands. Flat grey sky with some pastel yellow morning light in the background.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Metre for metre the walk between Ardalaneish beach car park and the shore must be one of the most bird dense routes I walk in the year. #UKBirds #scotbird

Stream valley with gorse, meadowsweet, rushes and other wildflowers. Green hillside in the background with pastures and bracken.

Ardalaneish shore with Jura in the distance.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

First paddle. Swallows, curlew, ginormous seal, dolphins (not super close).

Little green paddle board on small tombola beach with yellow coral sand. Small islands and the Isle of Iona in the background. Grey skies and a calm clear to turquoise to dark green sea.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Arrived at Kintra. Some swallows, rock pipets and wheatear. Feels fresh and cool. Porpoise sighted on the ferry crossing.

3 masted yacht travels in front of Staffa in the distance.

Kintra pink granite in the foreground. Grey sea and sky mid ground. Some sun breaks through on the Ardamurchan peninsular in the background beyond the Isle I'd Staff with Gigha to the right.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Small blessing and life goal found on Preston Road in this bizarre summer. #ukbirds

Photo of a Jay's feather with bright blue stripes on a small black feather and white feathers edging it.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Another successful nightjar walk. Sticking to public paths. Lots of wing claos. Not sure if thats because I wore a fair but of white. #ukbirds

Dark pines silhouetted in front of an orange to lilac sunset.

Sunset on a hill framed by the leaves of a beach tree filtering the golden light.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I was really lucky this morning, on my day off,to play footie in the park with a child on his holidays and enjoy a beautiful new butterfly house. Everyone around the world should get to enjoy a local park on their day off and to help children play. These are necessities and life's simple pleasures.

Photo of a butterfly with light blue and brown markings. On a grape vine.

Photo of a butterfly with camouflaged outer wing sides on a bunch of grapes on a vine.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Not long until the holiday now. Plenty of this kind of thing...

Red and black metamorphic rocks on a sandy bay under a line of clouds at the north end of Iona.

A white sand beach in front of the turquoise waters of the soind of Iona with Mull beyond.

A full moon reflects on the sea cutting over a small wooden boat moored in the Sound of Iona.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It is so beautiful. Travelling companions were cynical about it. We drive past every year I said let's give it ago. To their credit they were smitten and apologised for their random cynicism.

Interior of St Conan's Kirk with a rounded wall and sweep of tall windows to the right of a tall pillar holding up a wooden roof frame.

Rounded side of St Conan's Kirk with long tall windows abutting Loch Awe under a bright blue sky.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Embroidered some blank napkins. Some Sussex birds. #UKBirds seabirds next maybe.

Taupe napkins with sparrows, a skylark and a wheatear hand embroidered on them.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Absolutely beautiful morning. Calm before a stormy late summer and autumn no doubt. My green cave....

Photo of a small city garden planted thickly with green shrubs.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Went to a fantastic Vrel exhibition at the Maritshaus. 2023. Usuual impeccable curation

Detail from a Vrel painting. Older woman looking down wearing piznez and a fur covered bonnet.

Detail from a Vrel painting. Woman in 19th Century Dutch clothing tipping her chair towards a dark paned window and a figure of a child white in the dark in the other side of the glass.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Something I love in the summer and could never get too much of....red geraniums. Lap them up from now until the first frosts.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Saw what I think was a hobby family near the Bopeep bostal today. Harvest time means lots of birds around. Invigorating circular walk. I need more of these long warm breezy evenings in my life.

View of the south downs with wide angles. Lots of blue sky.

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Its not like nobody told him.. 7 million people told him, worldwide in 2017.

Photograph of a mass women's protest against Donald Trump in Washington DC

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MountainBec @mountainbec.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Several hares on my walk tonight about 5 males and 2 females. Nice sunset. It's a fairly secure location but obviously I won't say where. I dont have a fancy camera.

Fuzzy picture of an hare in some rough grass in a field.

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