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Stephen Rutt

@steverutt.bsky.social
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Author, birder, naturalist (he/him).

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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
💧Introducing the BEAUTIFUL new paperback cover of #TheWaterlands by @steverutt.bsky.social, now with a 20% discount when you pre-order from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social! This is a captivating retelling of the water cycle, and an urgent call to protect our most essential resource. 🗓 Out 11 March
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Scottish Wildlife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tickets are going fast for our Words of the Wild Book Festival, with some events already sold out! Don’t miss your opportunity to meet some of today’s top nature writers, join our online talks or nurture your creativity at one of our workshops. Find out more on our website 📖 buff.ly/fI23XcV
A logo which reads, "Words of the Wild Book Festival, 29 Sep - 3 Oct 2026". The letters in "wild" are stylised to show an eagle, squirrel, butterfly and puffin respectively.
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British Wildlife @britishwildlife.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
And @steverutt.bsky.social has been reading Ghosts of the Night by @chrissperring.bsky.social . Read the review: www.britishwildlife.com/ghosts-of-th...
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Jason Ormiston @missedtheargo.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
After reading @steverutt.bsky.social's The Waterlands, a colleague put me on to his storytelling on bats and art from Claire Todd, in partnership with Species on the Edge. If you're looking for insight and a moment of calm, well worth a listen/ watch. speciesontheedge.co.uk/echoes-whisp...
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Echoes & Whispers | Species On The Edge
Explore the world of bats in this six-part podcast, a creative evaluation piece by Stephen Rutt and Claire Todd.
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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🎉Huge congratulations to @steverutt.bsky.social on his book #TheWaterlands: Follow a Raindrop from Source to Sea being longlisted for the @wainwrightprize.bsky.social for Nature Writing! #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect #waterlands #wetlands #bog #marsh #nature #NonFiction #WaterCycle #ecology
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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The Flow Country — where nothingness is something very special... @steverutt.bsky.social speaks to @thetimes.com about The Flow Country, a vast bog in the far northeast of #Scotland where the plants have turned predator and the soil is less solid than milk: www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
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The Flow Country — where nothingness is something very special
The vast bog in the far northeast of the Scottish mainland is an otherworldly place where the plants have turned predator and the soil is less solid than milk
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Kate Blincoe @kateblincoe.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
At last, time to sit down and read @resurgencetrust.bsky.social magazine. Adore the Echopoetry (inspired by bats) and am reminded how much I enjoyed reviewing The Waterlands @steverutt.bsky.social
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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Dive into the hidden world of water with author of #TheWaterlands @steverutt.bsky.social. From chalk streams to peat bogs, in this episode of Roots and All Stephen Rutt explores the watery landscapes we so often overlook: bit.ly/4uZibYy #WaterCycle #Nature #Water #Wetlands #NonFiction #NatureWriting
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Episode 380: Following a Drop of Water
Podcast Episode · Roots and All - Gardening Podcast · 13 April · 37min
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Paul Cheney @halfmanhalfbook.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This arrived whilst I was away on holiday. Thank you to @eandtbooks.bsky.social for sending a copy of @steverutt.bsky.social's new book, Waterlands
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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
💧Happy publication day to #TheWaterlands by @steverutt.bsky.social! Follow a raindrop as it flows through diverse waterscapes: river sources, saltmarsh-flanked firths and estuaries, spectacular lochs, crystal-clear chalk streams, blanket bogs and more. bit.ly/4dbmYka #NatureWriting #wetlands
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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Join naturalist and award-winning author, @steverutt.bsky.social on 1st April at 7pm, as he chats to Jen Stout at Blackwells #Edinburgh about his lyrical and insightful new book #TheWaterlands. 'A masterpiece' - Ajay Tegala, author of Wetland Diaries Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stephen-ru...
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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Stories from the earth, sea and skies — @financialtimes.com pick four of the best new books on the environment - including @steverutt.bsky.social's new book #TheWaterlands! www.ft.com/content/83ef... #wetlands #bogs #conservation #WaterCycle #NonFiction #marsh #nature #NatureBooks
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Stories from the earth, sea and skies — four of the best new books on the environment
The brutal business of oil and gas — plus green tariffs, the wonder of ‘murderous birds’ and bringing wetlands back to life
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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Join naturalist and award-winning author @steverutt.bsky.social Blackwells Edinburgh on 1 April at 7pm, as he chats to Jen Stout about his lyrical and insightful new book #TheWaterlands. Tickets now on sale! 🎟️ bit.ly/4sbuDmR
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
30 seconds of skeins over Dumfries (just along from Lidl if we're being precise).
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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Looking forward to reading #TheWaterlands? Close your eyes and immerse yourself in Britain's watery landscapes with author @steverutt.bsky.social's playlist on Spotify: 🎧https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ib6U5Mayp8LuXk4BdFLTY?si=37ZlSZiqSrOfKeeaKLHz-g&pi=ZJglFI8ARkCiA&nd=1&dlsi=f7a09a9f067841dc
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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Species on the Edge. Echoes & Whispers - Explore the world of bats 🦇 in this six-part podcast, a creative evaluation piece by @steverutt.bsky.social and Claire Todd. Thanks to @lotterygoodcauses.bsky.social speciesontheedge.co.uk/echoes-whisp...
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Echoes & Whispers | Species On The Edge
Explore the world of bats in this six-part podcast, a creative evaluation piece by Stephen Rutt and Claire Todd.
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Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
A collaboration between naturalist/writer @steverutt.bsky.social and audio-visual artist Claire Todd, ‘Echoes & Whispers’ is a creative evaluation of bat conservation in the Solway region www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/11/echo...
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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Introducing... #TheWaterlands by @steverutt.bsky.social, a captivating retelling of the water cycle. Follow a raindrop as it flows through diverse waterscapes: river sources in the upland moors; saltmarsh-flanked firths and estuaries; spectacular lochs and crystal-clear chalk streams. Out 26 March
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Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
We are so excited to be publishing @steverutt.bsky.social's new book #TheWaterlands, an evocative journey through British waterscapes revealing everything a single raindrop can show us on its journey from source to sea. 💧 Read more @bookbrunch.bsky.social: www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article...
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E&T signs book on water
Elliott & Thompson aquires The Waterlands by Stephen Rutt, an evocative journey through British waterscapes 'revealing everything a single raindrop can show us on its journey from source to sea'
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
On the sandy soils of the Breckland, red-banded sand wasp is common. It catches caterpillars, immobilises them with a sting, lays an egg in them and drags them down a burrow. The egg hatches and the wasp larva eats it's way out of the living caterpillar.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I'm offering mentoring sessions now for writers of non-fiction. One-to-one video call, 2000 words of your writing reviewed with honest feedback and pointers for development. More information here: stephenrutt.com/mentoring/
Me standing in front of some reeds looking authorial.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A walk in Galloway: common blues, bog asphodel & big orchids.
Common blue butterfly upper wings Common blue butterfly under wings Several bog asphodel plantsA really big orchid
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
When the cinnabar finds the sunlight in a shady hedge.
Cinnabar moth, red hind wings glowing.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Kite and clouds.
Red kite circling in front of billowing grey clouds
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Scenes from a series of Galloway dawns.
Full moon descending behind hill, mist in the valley, stars aboveDawn down a valleyPanorama of pines, distant hillside and hint of loch A strip of sunrise across a hill
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Michael Warren has written a terrific book about birds, people and the past. I've reviewed it for British Birds. britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti... @drmjwarren.bsky.social
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The Cuckoo’s Lea: the forgotten history of birds and places
We remember places through their birds. We remember the corners of suburban woods where Eurasian Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus lurk, the...
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Hair ice in the woods, lingering after the thaw. And a frost of fungi.
Hair ice bursting out of a stick, surrounded by dead beech leaves.Close up on hair ice on back of leafClose up of hair ice on a stick, the filaments of frost lifting up like hair.A dead tree liberally coated in white mushrooms I don't know.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
A train through the fens. It's all black fields and lines of golden reeds and hundreds of wild swans. Silvery skies. East Anglia always does something to me.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Exit jackdaws.
A flock of jackdaws departing from the silhouette of an oak tree that reaches over a fence, a hill in the background. Entire photo is underexposed and gloomy in a Gothic way.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I love birch trees. Hard as nails. This one does not recognise your fence.
A birch tree growing through a wire fence.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Into the last week of editing my words. Or as I prefer to think of it, moving the matchstick furniture on my scale-model of the Titanic.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Last night's stormlight
Ragged peach and grey clouds, strewn across a blue sky as the sun goes down.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Love this news story: a twelve-year old girl in Slovenia is helping the cicada reintroduction to the New Forest www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Slovenian girl, 12, saves project aiming to reintroduce cicadas to New Forest
Conservationists failed to capture elusive insects this summer, so Kristina Kenda offered to step in
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Calm before the inevitable weekend weather.
Silhouette of reeds with diving ducks in the background. Apricot, blue and grey clouds in the sky.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Sunrise skein. And the view in the other direction.
Big skein of pink-footed geese flying through a pink sunrise with bare tree shapes.Pink sunrise reflected in river Frosty pink sunrise with moon
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Frost on the ground but the peacock persists, sunning on the sandstone.
A peacock butterfly sunning itself on a sandstone wall.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
In the space between dusk and dark, skein-lines drifting like a smoke
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Morning, furred and thorned, the delicate bite of -3.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Delighted to read that Ronald Blythe's house is to become a nature reserve - amazing cultural heritage there as well www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘A force for everything he represented’: Ronald Blythe’s home to become nature reserve
The Akenfield writer’s ancient Essex farmhouse will be opened up as a sanctuary for people and wildlife
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hello. It's been a while. How are you doing? I've had a shocking year. But here are some things that brought me joy. Firstly, a mega skein over Dumfries at sunset.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
1st September. Maybe three weeks until the geese return. I can't wait. A mood board from past winters.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 28/08/2023
Downriver at otter-speed.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
I have reached the stage of parenting where we watch bees together. I have reached the stage of parenting where I try to stop the bee being patted.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 26/08/2023
Overflowers.
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Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
I love this sun-struck, tern-shreiking sweep of sand.
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