Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 24/02/202630 seconds of skeins over Dumfries (just along from Lidl if we're being precise). 0100
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 18/08/2025On 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. 070
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 11/07/2025I'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/ 081
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 28/06/2025A walk in Galloway: common blues, bog asphodel & big orchids. 0110
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 11/06/2025When the cinnabar finds the sunlight in a shady hedge. 050
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 13/05/2025(unseen, the grim slog of bird surveying: 1.30am alarms, the frigid chill of pre-dawn uplands, cold enough for the shiver of snipe song, cuckoos keeping themselves warm by cuckooing, the ecstatic swan-diving of tree pipits, hours of fruitless waiting and grey dawns, days going nowhere) 080
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Hair ice in the woods, lingering after the thaw. And a frost of fungi. 2110
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 26/11/2024I love birch trees. Hard as nails. This one does not recognise your fence. 0161
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Sunrise skein. And the view in the other direction. 080
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Frost on the ground but the peacock persists, sunning on the sandstone. 0101
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 19/11/2024In the space between dusk and dark, skein-lines drifting like a smoke 170
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Morning, furred and thorned, the delicate bite of -3. 180
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024These scarlet waxcaps, searing out of the grass on a gloomy day 130
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Hello. 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. 4141
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 01/09/2023Those are pink-feet. More moods: barnacle, brent, tundra bean (with greylag) and white-front. 020
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 01/09/20231st September. Maybe three weeks until the geese return. I can't wait. A mood board from past winters. 360
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 27/08/2023I 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. 180
Stephen Rutt @steverutt.bsky.social · 25/08/2023I love this sun-struck, tern-shreiking sweep of sand. 090
