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I AmAnita
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The older I get the curiouser I become, in every sense of the word. Finding my way, here and elsewhere. #cloud watcher, respecter of #nature, 99% #vegetarian On Mastodon as @CloudsGoBy@mindly.social
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I AmAnita @cloudsgoby.bsky.social · Jan 18
I fled to Mastodon before the proverbial really hit the fan on the fallen bird and I feel at home there so won’t be leaving any time soon. However - totally gobsmacked by the number of old friends I’ve rediscovered on bluesky and it looks like I’ll make some new ones too 🙂
cloudsgoby.bsky.social
@lakesstiles.bsky.social Tall photo. Posting straight away. Still out walking - what a treat of a day 🌞 😎 Spot the benchmark! (I’ve shared this one before btw) Clue: Not on the stile. Will try and remember to add an alt description later 🙏🏻 #StileSaturday
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
cloudsgoby.bsky.social
Great Spotted Woodpecker drumming on our leccy pole today 👍🏻 #birding
February 14, 2026 at 12:50 PM
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endodoc.bsky.social
There are around 700 traditional fingerposts in Dorset, but only four are painted red - always have been - and no-one knows why. (See alt text for details) #FingerPostFriday
Fingerpost at a 3-way junction between Sherborne and Wincanton. It is painted red with white lettering. The map grid reference is displayed on the on the finial (as is the case for all Dorset fingerposts). It's been suggested red posts mark junctions where gallows once stood. One near Bloxworth was used as a way marker for officers taking convicts to the coast for deportation. More likely, they were simply navigation aids for illiterate travellers, or perhaps indicated a junction where you could guarantee to catch a stage coach. Thanks to Terry Yarrow "The Dorset Rambler" for info. https://thedorsetrambler.com/2017/09/14/red-post-distinctively-dorset/
February 13, 2026 at 10:42 AM
cloudsgoby.bsky.social
Share a photo of mountains that you’ve taken
Looking along a road in winter that has some bare hedge and trees on either side and snow, but not on the road which is dark. There is a line of small red and white traffic bollards to the left of the road. Directly ahead is a mountain that is covered in snow. Bright sunshine casts many shadows on it. The cloudless sky is deep blue. The mountain is called Blencathra, also known as Saddleback because of its distinctive shape.
February 13, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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riotgrandma.bsky.social
🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧🙄🇬🇧
Love this! We are inundated with potholes!
February 13, 2026 at 12:45 PM
cloudsgoby.bsky.social
Another combo to cover #FingerpostFriday #StileSaturday
Rural scene, late winter, bare trees in the distance. An old stone wall with rounded capping stones and a gap with two stone block steps to access it. There is lichen and moss on the wall. Rough vegetation in front, a field absolutely full of dug up swedes for sheep behind. No sheep visible. To the right is a tall wooden fingerpost. There is a warning notice on it about keeping dogs under control.
February 12, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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levparikian.bsky.social
Everyone else: AAAGGHHH TEETH FALLING OUT!! SNAKE!!

France: I should call her

Greece: ooh hat
February 11, 2026 at 8:20 AM
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ronmac11.bsky.social
Red kite and Osprey
#BirdOfTheDay
#OddCouples
Two birds high in the sky, stormy clouds in the background.
February 10, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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fellranger.bsky.social
Pen and Ink drawing of Great Dun Fell and Cross Fell from the Pennine Way track above Garrigill.
February 10, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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vizcomic.bsky.social
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz353bs
APPARENTLY it costs the NHS over £300,000 a year to remove foreign objects from people's rectums. Why aren't we removing British objects instead? Was Brexit all for nothing? Gerry Paton, London
February 9, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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juliew67.bsky.social
#BlueskyArtShow #Sunlight
Cow parsley in the late evening sun
A photo of tiny white cow parsley flowers with golden sunlight shining onto them. Behind is a blue sky
February 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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garywatton.bsky.social
A Tawny Owl roosting only a few minutes from our doorstep. Lovely to see, had it to ourselves and left it alone after just a couple of minutes with the camera at a respectable distance.
#tawnyowl
#Berkshire
February 7, 2026 at 6:06 PM
cloudsgoby.bsky.social
PHWOOAARR seconded!
lakesstiles.bsky.social Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social · 8d
PHWOOAARR
groomb.bsky.social Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 8d
Cloud inversion during sunset on Snowdon, north Wales, photo by Louise France, 'Wandering Welsh Girl'.
February 7, 2026 at 5:29 PM
cloudsgoby.bsky.social
Reposting for #StileSaturday
February 7, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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lukelukeluke.bsky.social
Here are some nice mushrooms
Hundreds of winter bonnets grow up the side of a bare long toward a cold blue sky. Each cluster sends up a dozen or so tiny mushrooms on sinuous gray stalks. All photos by me.
February 6, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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lakesstiles.bsky.social
Yesterday's lenticular action for your delectation. If this kind of thing delights you...
February 6, 2026 at 9:45 PM
cloudsgoby.bsky.social
Tall photo. Combining #stile and #FingerpostFriday
A rather decrepit wooden stile with tangled winter vegetation around it. Two small planks make the steps on a short piece of fence. It’s all damp, mossy and mouldy. The tall wooden fingerpost stands to the right, and to the right of that a green metal fence with a fan shape on top. It borders a railway which is much higher up.
February 6, 2026 at 3:52 PM
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lakesstiles.bsky.social
Any bar action?
A day of lenticular action here.
February 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
cloudsgoby.bsky.social
That easterly is fair rattling the windows at the back of our house today 🥶 #Helm #NorthPennines
February 5, 2026 at 3:48 PM
cloudsgoby.bsky.social
Unexpected sunset after a damp and dismal day #clouds #lenticular
Dark cigar shaped clouds against a sunset sky. Pale blue morphing into orange gold nearer the horizon. There are some birds flying across, just visible as small black dots, and electricity wires stretch across the photo. At the bottom of the picture there are the silhouetted outlines of trees.
February 4, 2026 at 6:27 PM
cloudsgoby.bsky.social
We need more of this. Easy to implement- and surely cheaper?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rare butterflies bounce back after landowners in Wales cut back on flailing hedges
More than 300 brown hairstreak butterfly eggs were recorded in hedgerows near Llandeilo this winter after decade of decline
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:02 PM
cloudsgoby.bsky.social
😱🙏🏻❤️

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Teen swims four hours through rough seas to save mother and siblings off Western Australia
The 13-year-old attempted to kayak back to shore to get help, but the vessel took on water, forcing him to swim 4km
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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wildindigoartisan.bsky.social
Yesterday’s short walk with the snowdrops was very much needed after a very stressful weekend.
February 2, 2026 at 9:44 AM
cloudsgoby.bsky.social
This is who runs this account
A little girl, maybe 2 or 3 yrs old. She is wearing very wide legged dungarees, a light coloured jumper and socks with sandals. Her hair is shortish, blown back a little by a breeze, and her face is scrunched up because the sun is shining on it. Her older brother is only partially visible to the left of the photo. He is holding her hand.
February 1, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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joaquincastrotx.bsky.social
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM