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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

-- Gifts-- cross my palm with robin just one pin, just one needle tiny claw-prickle human hand blood-orange-bib bird across my heart line along my love line this pumpkin-sky morning sunrise has trusted me with a fragment of itself...

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Final Judgement of The Birds Watercolour and pencil

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

looking through the dragonfly's wings

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy longest day of the year! Sunrise through the Spiral of Honesty the beautiful translucent seedpods of the plant - honesty - arranged in a spiral, stuck on to glass.

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

-- Cursive -- remember? you acted as scribe to the sky wrote down thoughts of clouds in a cursive hand your flight pattern - I mapped it on to my life at a scale of one year per loop that you looped....

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

A kill we walked inside the circle dandelion clockwise twice onion-skinned our knees smelt for air-hinge, sundial turnings, tested for levity, tasted the gravity...

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

--two white horses -- without tv or news or clocks time is measured in white horses in the field below the morning brings a new alignment they are enacting all the prepositions in front of, behind, next to and some that only horses know the stations of the horse....

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower”

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

A Mobile - The Sun and Honesty seedpods

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

These! Real life green men and women. Artists Karoline Hjorth & Riitta Ikonen have been on a journey to find them. Their project, “Eyes as Big as Plates,” transforms elders around the world into living sculptures, adorned with the very landscape they inhabit moss, seaweed, branches, and soil.

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Inkling Days, I'm talking about different kinds of Inkling days on the lovely podcast Stopping by Hedgerows. It'll only take 6 minutes of your time. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/00iU... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I think it's today, the inkling day

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I'm very fond of looking at stained glass windows in churches. Often my favourite parts are the unregarded details tucked away in the corners. Plants, animals and birds - the naturey bits - are often to be found there. This is a montage I've made of some of those

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Alder leaf - stained glass window (eaten away by alder leaf beetle)

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

it was like Pompeii for the Ivy people some were trying to escape, others embracing, a kissing couple, this one was caught in the act of climbing over a wall.

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Things That Don't Exist - Peacock They used to think there was a bird with a hundred-eye shimmer for a tail. Rainbow fractured in the facets of a fly's compound eye. And get this - Some still claim to see them.

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Brimstone butterfly It's great to see butterflies doing well this year. And insects in general. After an atrocious year last year - it's good to see them bounce back, in this much better weather. It was like the old days - almost.

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

The canal maiden's long flowing hair

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

- Because I Could Only Walk Twelve Steps - threw myself forward to where I'd soon be, traveled in the slipstream, like a skein of geese, in person-form the dog I would be walking If I had a dog, sniffed out new routes found novel ways to get lost ....

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

My, what a long ovipositor you've got . it also has a very excellent latin name - Gasteruption jaculator it has a very, very long ovipositor for laying eggs in the nests of solitary bees and wasps

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

another journey to the centre of the dandelion macro photograph of a dewy dandelion seedhead

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. paraphrase of Terry Prachett

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Wall chart of tree leaves the hi res file is free download with the code may2025 also tree buds and bark microcosmic.shop

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I was an odd child, life sticking out in all the wrong places the boy I was didn't speak much, not to people anyway the man I am found the words he left in birds, returned them to the boy

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

-- the pond -- by the pond in always falling daylight misted moon-smitten blue I waited ------------------ My poem - graphic novel style

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Avocet ripples and reflections - stripes are in!

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

birds are poets telling earth what sky is thinking

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

another journey to the centre of the dandelion - macro photograph

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Six great tit eggs in the garden, hatched yesterday. It's a miracle naked, blind hatchling to being to mini Great tit - a creature that seems to have the 'lights on' - it has that spark...it has - life ...turning caterpillar into bird consciousness magically appearing, seemingly out of nothing

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

A robin comes to check on my work. As the book that I'm writing has a lot about birds, it's good that I've got one to fact check me :) This is a robin that feeds from my hand , and some time pops in to see what I'm up to. 🙂

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

If heaven exists I think it will be a bluebell wood, it will always be late April, and the sun will always be just coming up. There will be a joyous dawn chorus and the sound of nearby running water.

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end"

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A horse chestnut bud bursting Not just bursting, but leaping into leaf, jumping for green joy. There's an extravaganza happening right now out there - the best show it town - and country. It's called spring!

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Phil Barnett @squinancywort1.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Displaying Great Crested Grebes I saw this yesterday - one of the most beautiful 'first signs of spring'. I made a montage of their 'moves'.

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