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Adam Markham
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Climate change, natural & cultural heritage, zooarchaeology & human-bird history. Part-time UHI PhD student researching Viking/Norse birds. #climateheritage #archaeobirds @preservinglegacies @ICOMOS. ArsenalFC.
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Letting the train take the strain.
Manhattan from a train window. Lots of buildings and skyscrapers.
November 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I found this on a numismatic website, described as a Hiberno-Norse penny from Dublin, and dated to the early 11th century. The birds could be cranes or herons. Is there a different, earlier one from Wood Quay in @nmireland.bsky.social.
#archaeobirds
Two sides of a silver Hibernian-Norse coin. The left picture has a styalized face with a helmet and beard, the right side has three connected images of a bird, possible a crane. The coin was found in Dublin and was dated to the early 11th century.
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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One of my favourite structures at Weir Farm National Historic Site - J. Alden Weir's stone pig pens.
Two inter-connecting square, low-walled pens made from field-stone boulders. Grass, fallen leaves and brush in the foreground, late autumn trees behind.
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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In Connecticut since 2019 & spreading fast in New England, beech leaf disease is now affecting millions of American beech trees. It's caused by a microscopic foliar nematode, probably originating in Asia. Sadly we had to have 6 of the dead & dying trees in our yard taken out yesterday. 😢 🍃
A man with a chainsaw in a pink shirt and yellow safety helmet sits about 20 feet up, atop the severed trunk of a dead tree. Two others on the ground hold ropes and clear dead wood debris. There are the red leaves of a Japanese maple in the the top left quarter of the picture.
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Indeed.
A news alert asserting a historic Democrat sweep of local elections in Wilton, CT.
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Great fun yesterday to give one of this semester's research seminars for @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social undergrads. I focused on climate risks to heritage, & stewardship options. Not just sites but also intangible CH & culturally important species
🏺 #climateheritage #archaeology @thinkuhi.bsky.social
Three people on a rocky beach examine a low eroding bluff that has been temporarily shored up with sandbags The site is a Medieval cemetery on Mainland, Orkney. Photo: Adam Markham A map of the Arctic with a dozen important heritage sites marked as vulnerbale to climate change. The graphic is titled "Arctic Archaeology at Risk: >180,000 sites. A picture of sweetgrass habitat in Acadia National Park where the effects of climate change are altering ecosystems and where park managers are working with Native American communities to develop culturally appropriate resilience strategies for culturallly important species. Photo: NPS/Johnny Schmidt. Archaeologists survey an ancient obsidian working site after severe damage by the 2011 Las Conchas wildfire, in or near Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico. Photo NPS.
November 4, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Closer view
Yellow, black and white Art Deco floor tiles in Ernest Hemingway's bathroom in Key West. There are fish and bird depictions as well as lines and circles.
November 4, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Art Deco goose and fish tiles in Hemingway's 1930s bathroom, Key West, Florida.
#TilesOnTuesday #HemingwaysCats
Yellow, black and white Art Deco tiles on the floor of a 1930's bathroom. There is a white bath with a shabby pink curtain and a black cat resting on a windowsill. The tiles have geometric designs and also depict fish and geese.
November 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Went to the Westport Country Playhouse's brilliant new production of "The importance of Being Earnest". Love looking at the dozens of old posters there. So many from Lillian Gish to Shoshana Bean has performed there. Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman were heavily involved for many years. #theatrehistory
A yellow wall hung with old framed posters advertising productions of the past at the Westport Country Playhouse. Stars names include Gloria Swanson, Claudette Colbert, Eli Wallach & many more.
November 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Seasons turn.
Preserve jars on a windowsill, many with green tomatoes on top. The sun shines through the jars. The leaves outside are turning.
October 31, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Just finished Tim Birkhead’s latest. A quick and fun read for those with an interest in ornithological history, and the great auk completists amongst you. 🪶🌎🦤
The cover of the book “The Great Auk” by Tim Birkhead. It shows a painting of several black and white birds in and on the water.
October 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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This little cutie was feeding on the goldenrod at Weir Farm (CT) today.
Yellow-rumped warbler. 🪶
A small bird (yellow-rumped warbler) perched on goldenrod plant seed head and bending it downwards. The bird is seen from the front and looking to the right of the picture.
October 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The trees are on fire.
A tree turning orange and yellow against a clear blue sky.
October 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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The presumed farmer appeared on the cover of the 1956 excavation report. But not the chicken 🙁. #zooarchaeology
A green book cover with a representation of a man’s head on a rusty orange background in the middle. The book is the excavation report for Jarlshof, Shetland, by JRC Hamilton published by HMSO.
October 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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An extraordinarily evocative depiction incised on slate, possibly of a Viking Age farmer, from Jarlshof. And if the bird on the right is a domestic fowl - as is usually said - it would be one of the earliest on Shetland.
#archaeobirds 🏺
📸 I think by @catjarman.bsky.social @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social
An incised slate found in Viking Age deposits at Jarlshof, Shetland. A bearded man's head with curly hair and a big eye is depicted left, and at the lower middle right is a bird that has always been interpreted as a probable domestic fowl. The excavation report by JRC Hamilton describes two failed chicken pictures also on the slate, but they can't be properly seen here. Photo copyright Dr. Cat Jarman.
October 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Full-scale fall foliage.
Colorful yellow, red and green trees sunlit against a dark cloudy sky.
October 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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The painted trees, the air so still,
The rustling leaves that strew the hill
John Clare
A sassafras tree changing colour, seen in weak morning sunlight. The sky is studded with clouds.
October 16, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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This lovely red-shouldered hawk gave me the eye when I saw it yesterday. 🪶
The top half of a hawk with a dark eye and a reddish striped and mottled breast, looking to the left of the picture. The background is blurred lichen on a tree trunk.
October 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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It’s a wonderful time of year to get outside.
A tree and a stone wall against a blue sky with a few clouds.
October 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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North Haven, Maine.
Brown seaweed on a stony beach with the see and trees in the background An oyster shack - North Haven Oysters 🦪 - the best evah! An old aspen tree in a walled graveyard with two lichen covered 19th century gravestones. A gallery sign hung with fancy iron-work, saying Fox Island Gallery.
October 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Gas, diesel, lobstas.
A marine services building with pinkish walls and a grey roof on jetty.
October 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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Rockland, Maine - from the North Haven ferry.
A sailing boat and a lighthouse with sea and sky.
October 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Song sparrow on sedum. In the secret garden at Weir Farm NHS. Sparrows don't get enough love. 🪶
A sparrow on top of a mounded purple sedum, with a green background.
October 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Early morning blueborb 🪶
A bluebird sitting on a bare twig with a blue sky behind photographed with the sun behind in the early morning.
October 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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I hope an upside down rainbow is a good omen? 😬
A partial upside down rainbow above trees in a blue-grey sky
September 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM