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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Out for a run this morning and passed a heron fishing in the neck. It was standing very still but its eye flicked at me when I stopped to take the photo so I moved on

Image shows a grey heron, standing on rocks in a stream bed

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Went for a walk from Bessie Bank Lane to Arnsbarrow Tarn, east side of Coniston Water #cumbria. Heather was in bloom everywhere. Saw at least a dozen different kinds of butterflies. And one mad looking yellow #caterpillar: would love to know what it is

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Some pretty Dahlia flowers in our garden

A purple and red Dahlia flower, a bottle green fly, in the background green foliage

A series of bright red Dahlia flowers, with dark purple stems, there are green vegetables in the background

A bright red Dahlia flowers, with oval elements

A bright mauve Dahlia flowers against a background of green leaves

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Respect the track. A very rough dirt road running towards Black Huts in Askam #cumbria

Image shows a sign in the foreground saying “Respect the track”. There is a fence line running from left to right, and beside it a dirt track. Above these, there is grass to the horizon, then above that there is blue sky and white cloud.

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Snowdrops blooming in a garden up by Nether Houses on the road out of Ulverston, #cumbria

Image shows the green stalks and open white bells of snow drops

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Out for a walk on Woodland above the Duddon valley: looking west towards the sea, with Black Coombe a dark mass on the horizon on the right

Tussocks of grass in the foreground, with a path winding to the horizon. Then ridges or high ground in darker shades. The horizon is a grey white line beneath white cloud masses and blue sky

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

First time growing corn and quite pleased with the results: from seedlings, late to plant and late to harvest but still going to enjoy eating these #gardening #harvest

Picture shows two corn cobs, with an adult hand next to them for scale

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Some flowers and leaves from the late summer garden: dahlias, wild carrot blooms, bay and oak leaves, achillea, #flowers

Picture shows a glass vase with purple, apricot and white flowers, with green oak and bay leaves

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Love the deep red of these beetroots: about to roast them. This season’s harvest

Picture shows a glass tray with an array of deep red beetroots halved

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Bees and not bees in the garden: bumble bees and (I think) a hover fly on Salvia and Angelica flowers #bees #flowers #cumbria

Photo shows a bee with fuzzy yellow hairs on its body, on green stems with small purple flowers

A bee with orange fuzzy body balancing on one of a set of spires of small purple flowers

Maybe a hover fly with banded yellow and black body on a flower with small pink blooms

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Butterflies: a Painted Lady and a Small White (I think) on the Verbena in the garden, a Peacock on the path, a Gatekeeper in the long grass near Mearness farm #cumbria #butterflies

Picture shows a butterfly, with dappled orange and black wings, on a cluster of small purple flowers

Picture shows a butterfly with white wings, with black tips, and black eye spots, on a cluster of small purple flowers

Picture shows a ragged looking butterfly with bright orange wings, with black yellow and purple flashes

Picture shows a butterfly with orange wings with brown rims and black eye spots, in long grass

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Yarrow and Giant Scabious flowers on mid Summer’s day #gardens #flowers

Pictures show green stems and two kinds of flowers: yellow clouds lower down, and yellow globe shaped flowers near the top

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Grey clouds but no rain: Harrison Stickle and Pavey Ark over Stickle Tarn, looking over Langdale in #cumbria

Grassy meadows in the foreground, then a blue grey glimpse of lake, below a high rock wall with a grey sky, growing black

Picture shows grass in the foreground, a rocky stream going down, then green grassy ridges receding away into the background

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Northern Marsh Orchid (I think) on a grassy bank in front of factory buildings #wildflowers #orchids

Picture shows an orchid: tall with small spotted purple flowers. In the background, there are factory buildings

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Walked up Whitbarrow last Sunday — a great limestone plateau in Furness — and the top was covered in orchids: stands of Early Purple orchids everywhere #wildflowers #orchids

Image shows a purple orchid, a tall stem of many small flowers

Image shows dark grey clouds above a field of grass and white grey stone scattered purple orchids

Image shows purple orchids, beside pale grey stones, and in the background a dark green horizon

Image shows a pink purple orchid, with many small flowers, set against a grassy field, with birch trees in the background

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I somehow took a bunch of pocket photos and ended with these pleasing (to me) abstract images

The image shows a diffuse circular red patch against a darker almost black background

Image shows a circular patch of white to pink colour, with a couple of odd white streaks in the top left quadrant, all against a dark red background

Image shows a dark red circle against a darker red background. There is a lighter vertical red bar just left of centre

Image shows a cloud of grey and white and yellow coin shapes, there is a dark grey and black patch in the bottom left corner

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Azaleas in bloom in the garden: so scarlet it feels like they’re bleaching photoreceptors

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

This caught my eye: plastic policeman points to the right, standing on a fake road, in an old amusement arcade, Lytham

Picture shows a cartoon style sculpture of an British policeman, in an old fashioned uniform, pointing to the right, standing in front of arched windows

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Picture of a Linnet: it’s not great but I’m amazed I got anything on my phone. I heard and saw a flock of five or so, in the woods above Chittery Lane, below Hoad #cumbria #birding

Picture of a bird, white and shades of grey, seen from below, its wings are outstretched, against branches of trees

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Bluebells now in bloom in the woods below Hoad #Cumbria #wildflowers

Picture shows a field of green shoots, dotted with blue bell flowers

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Spring! Was pleased and sorry to disturb a frog while gardening

The picture shows a flower bed: blue star shaped Glory of the Snow flowers with narrow green leaves; rounded pink Primrose flowers; in the background, pointy looking blue Grape Hyacinths

The picture shows a brown frog sitting on brown leaves

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Sunny Spring morning walk through the woods and they are awash with wild garlic, also found some wood Anemone in bloom #spring #wildflowers

Image shows a pink bell-shaped flower, again serrated green leaves, and at the top there is a stream

The image shows a stream running through a wood. There are long green shoots in bunches of Wild Garlic.

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Out for a walk in hazy nearly spring sunshine, through the woods at Roudsea Nature Reserve. Lots of song birds. Old yews growing out of the rocks

The picture shows a landscape: yellow long grass and pine trees in the foreground; low hills on the horizon; and blue sky and white clouds above. A board walk curves out to the horizon from the bottom of the image.

The image shows a natural wall of green tinged white rocks. A yew tree’s brown roots grow out of the rock.

The image shows smooth brown bark. Thin green needles grow out of the bark in patches.

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

The view across the Crake estuary, south towards the Cark fells, Chapel Isle, and Heysham: in the foreground, swans, and snowy ground #cumbria #birds

Colour photograph shows a landscape: in the middle of the image, at the horizon, from left to right, low grey and white smudgy looking hills, then a dark oval shape, an island and its reflection; in the sky above, from left to right, blue sky and white clouds, then darker clouds; in the foreground, from left, a blue and silvery water surface, then green and white snow covered grass land

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It stopped raining for a day so walked in the sunshine to the stone circle at Birkrigg Common: view looking south towards the Cark fells, Morecambe Bay

Image shows in the foreground a ring of small grey stones, standing in short grass, then a dark blue strip of sea, and on the horizon dark low hills, with bright blue skies above

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

From the staircase down to the South Stack lighthouse on Anglesey: the cliffs show these sharp bends and folds in brilliant orange and green #geology #wales #walks

Picture shows a cliff through a rocky window: the stone of the cliff appears to be sharply folded, with the orange or green of the cliff side bent in lines peaking at the top of the image

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The clouds cleared so got three walks in today: round Llyn Maelog; then along the beach at Rhosneigr; then the estuary at Aberffraw

A colour photograph showing low winter sun shining down on the estuary at Aberffraw, snaking silver from left to right. There is a row of houses on the right of the middle of the image.

A sky with apricot and grey clouds with the sun shining. There are low hills smudging the horizon. A strip of blue sea. Great and pebbly beach.

Orange and grey cloudy sky, with the sun shining. A lake with grey and silver water is in the lower half of the image. There are reeds in the foreground.

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Went for a walk on the beach, Rhosneigr, Anglesey: bright sunshine and very very windy; thankful that days are getting longer #solstice #wales #beach

In the foreground, marram grass bent over in the wind. On the horizon in the middle of the image, cottages to the right. The sea with white caps on the right. Upper half of the image is clouds, the sun shining through white and grey clouds

Image shows blue sky with white clouds. A white washed cottage, and a blue framed window, above a bank of grass and sand

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Out for a walk this morning; still a bit blowy — this view of Morecambe Bay looking south towards Heysham from Ulverston #cumbria #ulverston

In the foreground, beach, on the right a floating rig, in the mid ground sands and silvery water, on the horizon an island and some woods, white clouds and blue sky

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

I bought a Mullein earlier in the summer, planted it despite being late in the growing season and am happy to see it is blooming — with these pretty white flowers. The Bumble Bees are getting at the last of the pollen. Also, amazingly, saw a Damselfly touch down in the garden

A tall stem with white flowers in the foreground, in the background blurry lavender

Two bumble bees, orange furry bits, both on lavender flowers

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Mate … [Better shown than explained: image credit in alt]

Shelves with toilet ducks, in different colours. Credit to Steve Brandist on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevenbrandist/8607805774/

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 19/08/2024

I made potato dauphinoise for the first time this evening. I used this recipe www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/next... which claims to be “next level”. Not going to lie: it is. I think it’s because it calls for cream in a 1:1 ratio to potato #yummy

A glass dish, with a half eaten potato dauphinoise, the top is golden brown

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 18/08/2024

Summer in the garden in #cumbria and starting to harvest: onions today

A row of white onions, lying on bare earth, some green foliage in the background

Green pumpkin, and a gloved hand for scale

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 28/07/2024

Spent an hour or so picking black currants, just the sound of bees — a lovely afternoon

A metal bowl full of black currants; in the background through the window a garden

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 28/07/2024

Summer afternoon in Cumbria and the blue eryngium thistle and the golden fennel were covered in bees: #bees #flowers

Think this is a bee on the small yellow flowers of a Fennel plant

A white tailed bumble bee on a blue thistle eryngium flower

What is maybe a faded old cuckoo bumble bee: a bee with white bands, on blue thistle flowers

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 12/05/2024

Went for a walk in the area between Ulpha and Stickle Pike yesterday, heard a Cuckoo, saw a slow worm, found a bridge over a pretty stream and miles of Bluebell woods. Pretty good. #wildflowers #lizards #lakedistrict #walking

Green fields and stone walls in the foreground, lighter green hills in the background, fluffy clouds and blue skies

Green fields and stone walls, in front of pointy hills, below blue skies with white clouds

A slow worm — a legless lizard — amongst pale bracken straw

Blue bells and green grass amongst tree trunks

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

Ran/walked with Hoad Hill Harriers up Coniston Old Man yesterday; started in drizzle but ended in a nice clear evening

View of rocky bare grassy field? Looking towards a ridge in the middle of the picture, blue mountains and hills on the horizon under cloudy sky

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

Sun coming through after a wet cold morning in Swaledale

Picture of a rural valley, with a grey stone wall running diagonally from left to right, a grassy path running downhill away from the camera, sunshine lighting up the meadows in the valley below, dark clouds on the horizon

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

Sorrel on a mossy tree: Spring, Gunnerside Gill walk, Swaledale #wildflowers

Sorrel Pink flowers, green heart shaped flowers, set against green tree bark

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

Blue bells at the foot of the rowan tree down the end of the garden, not planted by us but blooming after I pulled the nettles and brambles last year #flowers #bluebells

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

Bumble bee checking out comfrey flowers in the garden #bees #flowers

Green leafs and stems, blue-pink comfrey flowers, and bumble bee

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

Walked to Beacon Hill above Coniston Water in #Cumbria. Picnicked looking at the Coniston Old Man mountain. On the walk there, from Woodland Vale, saw Kestrels, Buzzards, Wheatears, a Pipit, a Warbler, a Curlew, and a Raven. It’s high grassland, rocky bluffs, marshes and woods here so good #birding

Landscape: Rocks and rock pools in the foreground, a lake in the middle to the right, on the horizon low mountains beneath white and grey clouds

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Rob Davies @robayedavies.bsky.social · 03/03/2024

Out for a run this morning and heard my first sky larks of the year: they were up above Birkrigg Common, which is in the background of the photo. These daffodils were blooming in the path down

Daffodils in bloom, a hedge, a path leading to a gate, a hill and blue sky with white clouds

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