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Ana McKellar

@anamca.bsky.social

Always curious. On a narrowboat, hoping for a passivhaus one day. Landscape history, nature and biodiversity. Partially-sighted. Please use descriptive alt-text to help screen-readers and include everyone.

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Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 9h ago

Sunset over Glengorm Castle (September 2023)

The roof of a castle seen against an orange sunset, with a tower, pinnacles, and chimneys standing black against the sky.

Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 11h ago

Good evening everyone. Going to catch up on comments and do some #BirdOfTheDay Hope you are all having a lovely day. 🙏🏼 #RedOrDead #photography #ECK #birds #Ireland

A close-up portrait of a juvenile house sparrow perched on a slender branch with glossy green leaves and deep red stems. The young bird has soft, buff-brown plumage, a pale cream breast, and a chunky pinkish bill with a hint of yellow at the gape, indicating it has recently fledged. It faces slightly to the right, its dark eye catching the warm sunlight, while its fluffy feathers give it a rounded, endearing appearance. The background is a smooth blur of olive and dark green tones, isolating the sparrow and creating a calm, natural setting that draws attention to its delicate features and fresh juvenile plumage.

Nighttime on Still Waters @noswpod.bsky.social · 20h ago

Like everywhere, At the moment, The talk all along The canal is the rain. The eager chatter of drips. Gentle whispering Sighs among alder. Reed and iris' High-pitched plinks, The oaks deep exhale. The slow celebration Of slug and snail. #DailyNature #ukcanals #naturepoetry

Juraj Mikurcik @jurajmikurcik.bsky.social · 19h ago

Meeting the Passive House Standard with EcoCocon Straw Wall System 🌾 new blog 👇 ecococon.eu/blog/meeting...

Photo of prefabricated straw wall panels lifted by a crane, with three construction workers

Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 22h ago

Stile on the way to Scalpay (off Harris) lighthouse, sent by a friend not on this platform.

Three runged ladder stile over dry stone wall. It's muddy at the bottom so there are 3 stones to stand on. Blue sky with cirrus clouds. To the left a red and white painted lighthouse. Stile looks like it could do with an additional rung.

Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 22h ago

Good morning. The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #RedOrDead, any bird with red in the capture but not on the bird or a photo of a bird on bare winter branches. Alt #SummerVisitors Migratory birds associated with summer or your favourite bird to capture in summer. #birds #photography #ECK

A Meadow Pipit perches sideways on the curved seed head of a dark purple grass, its finely streaked brown upperparts and cream underparts sharply in focus against a smooth green background. The bird grips a large reddish earthworm in its slender bill, likely carrying food back to a nest or recently fledged young. Its alert dark eye and slightly raised crown feathers give it an attentive expression, while the soft, blurred backdrop draws full attention to the delicate plumage and the vivid contrast of the red worm against the bird’s pale face.

Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 21h ago

The cleft of Minster Gates leading from Minster Yard to Stonegate and Petergate, York. A medieval gateway stood here, controlling access to the Minster. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #ArtShare

A narrow street between three storey buildings with strong shapes and some of the background catching the light.

Paul G Photography 📷@paulgsphotos.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ashness Bridge #landscapephotography #eck #eastCoastKin

A stream tumbles over rocks in the foreground beneath a stone bridge. The sun streams through the arch giving the water spray a golden hue.

Sophie Carr @sophiecarr.bsky.social · 2d ago

After over 2 years of pain & stress, finally managed to sell my flat (completed today)! We finally found a really nice buyer who didn't mess us around, & a very efficient estate agent who helped it through. Here's to new beginnings! 🎉🥳🍾 (And a photo of sunrise in #Iceland from a few years ago).

A couple of small icebergs on a beach at sunrise. The sun is off to the left and the icebergs look a little golden. The long exposure waves are pink. The sky is peachy. The ice reflects gold on the beach which is littered with small black pebbles.

Helen Bennett 🌿@helenbennett.bsky.social · 2d ago

Good morning all. For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme I've chosen #FabulousWaders Any wading bird that you love! For me it's the Avocet, a calm and graceful beauty wading along the shoreline! 🤍🪶 The Alt. theme is #Speckled any bird with speckled patterns on its plumage. 📷 #birds #photography #ECK

Occasionally Lost @mostlyrambling.bsky.social · 2d ago

Artist, Simon Beck, creating one of his designs on Brean Beach, in May 2014. High tide will wash away his design, leaving a blank canvas for his next creation. 🌊 #TidesOutTuesday #Abstractia #Angles #AlphabetChallenge #Ephemeral #WeekEForEphemeral #Scape #LandscapePhotography #ECK #EastCoastKin

Landscape oriented, 3:2 photo.

View down from a clifftop path onto a broad, flat sandy beach.

In the foreground, there is a huge, geometrical design in the sand. Near the centre of the frame, a small dark figure can be seen - the artist Simon Beck, in the process of creating this piece of art. He is carrying the rake he uses to do so.

Behind Beck, the beach is clear aside from a diagonal (from the viewer's perspective) line of wooden posts that run down to the sea.

Beyond the beach, the sea is visible at the top of the frame. It is reflecting the blue sky above, in various shades depending on currents and the depth of the water.

Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 2d ago

Oops. www.publictechnology.net/2026/08/03/h...

NHS apologises and admits Palantir engineers have access to identifiable patient data

The central health service body has acknowledged the inaccuracy of claims previously made in a transparency document which indicated that only NHS staff were able to see such sensitive information ...

publictechnology.net

Brian Gallagher @bgallaghercoll.bsky.social · 2d ago

Another pic of one of the juvenile Sparrowhawks in Glasgow from week before last. #birds

Sparrowhawk on a branch, looking towards camera, with one set of talons raised

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 2d ago

Main Span xkcd.com/3279/

Comic. [Bridge with three peaks. The ones on the outside have pillars digging under the water. The middle one is held up by a hot air balloon, surrounded by equations.] [caption] How to get past the 3-4 km limit on suspension bridge main spans

Ana McKellar @anamca.bsky.social · 2d ago

Interesting report of what can be done to transition a farm profitably to sustainable practice. Alt-text: a vigorous green strip with wildflowers, mature gold cereal field behind it with harvester at work, short hedge beyond it and clumps of trees, with misty sky above, early or late in the day

@nffn.bsky.social · 2d ago

Waitrose's Leckford Estate took a phased, evidence-led approach when it started to implement regenerative approaches, avoiding the dreaded financial dip. 🌾 How they did it: 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/quxyceihqd

Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 3d ago

Behind the bewildering transformation of British universities, are management consultants being paid millions Really proud to have this vital piece on our unis are being gutted from the inside by @jheathershaw.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale. Do read democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-bri...

Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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WildDartmoor @tonydartmoor.bsky.social · 3d ago

Really good article about how peat restoration is helping farmers - a good counter to all the nonsense from the usual nonsense about "fuel load" and "rewilding" from the minority. www.walesfarmer.co.uk/news/2614875...?

Elan Valley farmer speaks out after devastation of terrifying wildfire

A farmer has spoken out after watching the land she calls home ‘burn’ and the restored peatland that helped save it.

walesfarmer.co.uk

Alan H @alan678.bsky.social · 3d ago

Good morning. It’s #MacroMonday. Hope you all have the best of weeks ahead. #Bee happy. 🐝 Another shot of a Buff-tailed Bumblebee approaching the St. John’s Wort in my garden. #BloomScrolling #photography #Nature #Naturelovers #ECK

A buff-tailed bumblebee hovers in flight above the centre of a vibrant golden-yellow St John’s wort flower, its translucent wings blurred with rapid movement. The bee’s ginger-brown thorax, black abdomen, and fluffy white tail are sharply lit by bright sunshine as it pauses to feed from the flower’s dense ring of yellow stamens. Pink-tinged flower buds rise on either side of the bloom, while the softly blurred green, blue, and yellow background creates a colourful summer backdrop that emphasises the bee’s moment of suspended flight.

Occasionally Lost @mostlyrambling.bsky.social · 3d ago

The fleeting beauty of spring blossom... April showers and a few rough winds soon set it adrift on the air but while it fills the trees, it lifts the soul. 🌸 #AlphabetChallenge #Ephemeral #WeekEForEphemeral #BloomScrolling #FlowersOfBluesky #ECK #EastCoastKin

Landscape oriented, 3:2 photo.

View up into a sunlit tree covered in masses of white blossom. Bright blue sky in the background.

Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 3d ago

Some cooling quiet for another hot day. 🎧 Episode 130 - Dartmoor stream above waterfall gorge (35 mins) A river on the edge of Dartmoor in July. Just the trickling of the water and the wildlife in this wild place.

130 Dartmoor stream above waterfall gorge - hydrotherapeutic + * sleep safe* | Radio Lento podcast

After an hour's steep upward toil, through a thickly wooded gorge and along some very precipitous granite rock formations, you reach a wooden footbridge. Here the landscape's totally changed. Just den...

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 3d ago

A restful listen for a Sunday night. Episode 126 - The seawall and the night patrolling curlews (43 mins *sleep safe*) Listen with headphones > radiolento.podbean.com/e/126-the-se... <

sunset. the sun has gone down. just the blue and orange of the sky. summer. warm. still.

Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social · 3d ago

Ingram's Almshouses, 90 Bootham, York. Built in 1633, the 10 houses for the poor reused a monastic doorway for the main entrance on the central tower that housed the warden. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #ArtShare

Close up of a drawing of the central block of a row of almshouses. It takes the form of a four storey tower with a round arched entrance. To each side are a row of two-storey dwellings each with an entrance to the street.

Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 3d ago

Slab stile from Pontycysyllte world...

Slab stile with two small smoothed indentations. The wall is of stone, and the scene goes down over parched grass to a canal

Three arches of a high aqueduct over a wooded river. The arches are of metal the pillars stone

Canal with metal lip on the left and towpath on the right with railings. The area is densely wooded with some buildings visible

Chris Dale @chrisdaleoxford.bsky.social · 3d ago

Lots of green still on the meadow, somehow.

A large field with purple-flowering spearmint in the foreground and trees beyond.

Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 3d ago

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Harvest time’ (1950s) Artist: Ronald Lampitt

A view looking down on a country lane at in the 1950s, when horsepower was beginning to give away to machines. There are horse riders in the lane and there’s a small red combine harvester in the field.

Mart_the_Gooner @mart-the-gooner.bsky.social · 4d ago

Just look at the size of those plates of meat 😂 #bigfoot #bluetit #birdsinflight

A blue tit hovers in mid-air with its wings a blur and one foot outstretched as if reaching for a landing. The bird’s bright yellow breast, blue cap and white face are sharply in focus against a smooth beige background, creating the impression of a tiny feathered acrobat suspended in flight.

Brian Gallagher @bgallaghercoll.bsky.social · 3d ago

An Osprey over the Clyde this afternoon. I looked upriver from Parklea and saw a guy fishing at the Finlaystone burn and assumed that meant there would be no birds around there. When i looked again I realised the Osprey was sitting very near him on top of a post. #birds

View of the river with a man fishing and an Osprey sitting on a tall post above him. The Erskine Bridge is visible in the background.

John Altringham @johnaltringham.bsky.social · 3d ago

A stile with an Ordnance Survey benchmark, near Ilkley. The brass rivet above the arrow is at 202.899m asl according to the OS Benchmark Archive. But why is there another benchmark on the left upright on the other side? @lakesstiles.bsky.social

Step stile in drystone wall, with survey benchmark on bottom step - a three pronged arrow cut into the stone, pointing to a brass rivet.

The same stile from the other side, with a second benchmark.

Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 4d ago

#StandingStoneSunday Cheshire Bronze Age. Now well used by sheep.

Bronze Age standing stone in Cheshire on a sunny day. Rolling hills all around.

Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 4d ago

Stile on the way up Moel Siabod.

Wooden ladder stile over wire fence with reeds by the fence. Mountain beyond with small crags and brown vegetation.