Sarah Watkinson

@festuca.bsky.social

Poet and mycologist

📚 It's August, which means the #SealeyChallenge is underway! To help you on your journey to read a book every day this month, The Poetry Society has gotten in touch with poets we've recently worked with for some recommendations. Next up is Ian Duhig, who is on the judging panel for (...)

Ian Duhig recommends 'Singletary'. "I have followed Geraldine's work for decades and Singletary contains all her characteristic strengths of exuberant wit, intellectual depth, idiosyncratic learning, slant wit and real spiritual and deep human love expressed with great linguistic panache. If you don't know her, take this chance to get acquainted."

Native bees! All photographed recently in the garden. At the moment I’m especially enamored with what I believe are male Western leafcutters: ginger and fuzzy with big green eyes!

Small fuzzy orange native bee with large jade green eyes, feeding on a magenta flower. Metallic green sweat bee feeding on a tight lipped dandelion like bloomSmall striped native bee with extremely full pollen basket, like a super thick sunshine yellow leg warmerYellow and black bumble bee feeding on a purple pincushion flower
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I am starting a PhD and am looking for grassland restoration/rewilding sites in Northern Ireland! Please forward this flier to anyone who might be interested in having their land surveyed for fungi!

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