September’s garden bugs. These are not to scale - lacewing larvae are, thankfully, tiny, but still terrifying if you’re an aphid. 🐡 #invertebrates
Emma
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Artist and nature lover - celebrating the wildlife and wild landscapes of northern England. Author of ‘Hartlepool’s Seaside Birds’. Art and photos are my own unless stated otherwise. Occasionally I write poetry - apologies in advance.
Grey Plover at North Gare last week - very smart little bird! Plus Curlew, Oystercatcher and Redshank. Pen and watercolour sketches. 🪶🐡 #birdingNorthEast #waders
Think I’ve got Spear-leaved and Grass-leaved Orache? Or variable forms of Common Orache? Plus Frosted Orache in the second post below. Teesmouth, North Gare. (1/2) #wildflowerHour #wildflowerID
#HaikuSaturday #haiku seasonal visitors... acorns knock on rooftops Please add a version if you feel like it. If you want your version posted with the other versions please include the hashtag #VersionsHaikuSaturday.
The Easterton Of Roseisle Stone - a Class 1 Pictish Symbol Stone discovered at Moray in 1894. The stone probably dates to the 5th or 6th centuries, and is now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own #StandingStoneSunday #Picts
Ghosts, locked in dark rocks. Coal-age creatures - stay stone, or You’ll see what we did. #haikuSaturday
House martins depart as pink- footed geese arrive! A blog at jonathanpomroy.wordpress.com Plus a look at my forthcoming exhibitions this autumn.
Weirdly blue lichen at the beach yesterday - possibly Ramalina siliquosa that’s been exposed/covered with something? There were several separate tufts all the same colour. There was remains of a campfire nearby 🤨 (northeast England). #lichen #fungiFriday #nature #fungi
Fungi from a walk near Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire - the IDs are mostly tentative, in some cases non-existent! But a huge variety of shapes and colours. Pen and watercolour drawings. #fungiFriday #fungi #nature
Sketches of plants from the beach and dunes at Seaton Carew - some interesting ones on the area where the tern colony had protected the beach from disturbance and the council tractor. (NE England) 🐡 #wildflowers #botany
Marsh Harrier found shot in North York Moors National Park. Police appeal for information & some commentary by me 🔽 #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/09/22/m...
Marsh Harrier found shot in North York Moors National Park – Police appeal for information
Press release from North Yorkshire Police (21 September 2026): Marsh Harrier found shot in North York Moors On 28 August 2026 a juvenile Marsh Harrier was found in the Westerdale area suffering fro…
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Meadow Pipits feeding on the Saltmarsh plants at Teesmouth - can anyone recommend a book or website on saltmarsh ecology and how plants adapt to those conditions? Doesn’t have to be British if it deals with the general principles. (Watercolour painting.) 🪶🐡 @teesbirds.bsky.social #botany
Country diary: A lesson from my final diary after nearly 40 years – keep looking closely | Phil Gates
Country diary: A lesson from my final diary after nearly 40 years – keep looking closely | Phil Gates
Stanhope, Weardale: I’ve realised in that time that beauty and fascination can lie in the most mundane of plants – in this case, broad-leaved dock
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I was a day too early for the Yellowlegs at Saltholme, so instead here are some Ruff sketches. 🐡🪶 #art #nature @teesbirds.bsky.social
Watercolour studies of Glasswort and Sea Blite from the salt marshes at Teesmouth this week. 🐡 #wildflowers #botany
Never mind the Bayeux Tapestry, look at the Seaton Snail Weaving! (I believe the script is known as Molluscule, but researchers have been unable to interpret the meaning 😉
Celebrating receiving an advance copy of my new Magnum Opus (with 4,000 images), by catching a Clifden Nonpareil on the same day.
Birds on the salt marshes, Seaton Snook - lovely to see the Whinchats, surprisingly well hidden in the green and purple marsh plants (thank you to the birder who pointed them out to me!) I will have to do a separate page for the plants… 🪶🐡 #wildlifeart #birdingNorthEast @teesbirds.bsky.social
August’s garden bugs - I shouldn’t play favourites, but the Brown Argus was a new one, so particularly exciting! And shieldbugs are always cute. #invertebrates 🐡 #sketches
Borrowed this from the library - 20 years old but interesting reading (how times change!) Are there any plans for an up-to-date version? @teesbirds.bsky.social @teesmouthbirdclub.bsky.social
Reminder for first indoor meeting of new season. Senegal & Gambia by Colin Dodsworth at Stockton on Tees central library @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
Please check out your local Oystercatcher flock! Blog about tagged birds - BUT Verónica Mendez also needs to know where the colour-ringed birds are! wadertales.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/a... Thank you! @webs-gsmp.bsky.social @birdtrack.bsky.social
A young Oystercatcher’s first adventure
I find it amazing that, when they depart on autumn migration, juvenile waders can be faced with a journey of hundreds or thousands of kilometres. In the latest phase of their Oystercatcher studies …
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Celebrating #haikuSaturday (after taking to the books to teach myself the parts of the sunflower bloom): phyllaries unfold ray florets free, flare, and flex nature's rhythmic flow #poetry #haiku
Watercolour of recent beach finds from northeast England. I suspect the Langoustine claw may not have got there through natural means - probably someone’s seafood picnic! 🐡 #art #seashells 🦀🦞 #fossils
