Andrew Beaven
@andrewbeaven.bsky.social
History (mostly local - London), nature (mostly local).
Also posting on cricket as @TheTeesra.com, but no sport or coaching via this account.
Also posting on cricket as @TheTeesra.com, but no sport or coaching via this account.
Walking #StCuthbertsWay, Melrose, Scottish Birders to Holy Island, Northumberland.
Despite the claim on the notice, Wideopen Hill is _not_ the midway point of the walk (although the summit is the highest point).
Despite the claim on the notice, Wideopen Hill is _not_ the midway point of the walk (although the summit is the highest point).
September 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Walking #StCuthbertsWay, Melrose, Scottish Birders to Holy Island, Northumberland.
Despite the claim on the notice, Wideopen Hill is _not_ the midway point of the walk (although the summit is the highest point).
Despite the claim on the notice, Wideopen Hill is _not_ the midway point of the walk (although the summit is the highest point).
To the #MiningArtGallery at the #AucklandProject in Bishop Auckland, County Durham.
aucklandproject.org/attraction/m...
The Pit Road paintings of Norman Corrnish were especially evocative
normancornish.com
aucklandproject.org/attraction/m...
The Pit Road paintings of Norman Corrnish were especially evocative
normancornish.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
To the #MiningArtGallery at the #AucklandProject in Bishop Auckland, County Durham.
aucklandproject.org/attraction/m...
The Pit Road paintings of Norman Corrnish were especially evocative
normancornish.com
aucklandproject.org/attraction/m...
The Pit Road paintings of Norman Corrnish were especially evocative
normancornish.com
Just found it — Settings / Accessibility / Require alt text before posting 👍
So now I should never need to remember!
So now I should never need to remember!
September 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Just found it — Settings / Accessibility / Require alt text before posting 👍
So now I should never need to remember!
So now I should never need to remember!
for #wildflowerhour #fruits — guelder rose, rose hips (dog rose), haws & sloes.
Local blackberries already gone over — we have been eating them since June, and those that are left are mostly dry & shrivelled!
Local blackberries already gone over — we have been eating them since June, and those that are left are mostly dry & shrivelled!
August 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
for #wildflowerhour #fruits — guelder rose, rose hips (dog rose), haws & sloes.
Local blackberries already gone over — we have been eating them since June, and those that are left are mostly dry & shrivelled!
Local blackberries already gone over — we have been eating them since June, and those that are left are mostly dry & shrivelled!
Are there any #typewriter #skystorians on here?
Saw this beauty yesterday, and wondered who needed the special keys at the top of the keyboard — £1/1d; £19/10d; £100/.; £1000/1s; £10,000/10s.
Google Picture search suggests it is a Royal, but has not helped with the currency keys.
Saw this beauty yesterday, and wondered who needed the special keys at the top of the keyboard — £1/1d; £19/10d; £100/.; £1000/1s; £10,000/10s.
Google Picture search suggests it is a Royal, but has not helped with the currency keys.
June 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Are there any #typewriter #skystorians on here?
Saw this beauty yesterday, and wondered who needed the special keys at the top of the keyboard — £1/1d; £19/10d; £100/.; £1000/1s; £10,000/10s.
Google Picture search suggests it is a Royal, but has not helped with the currency keys.
Saw this beauty yesterday, and wondered who needed the special keys at the top of the keyboard — £1/1d; £19/10d; £100/.; £1000/1s; £10,000/10s.
Google Picture search suggests it is a Royal, but has not helped with the currency keys.
Belatedly got around to collating some photos of the Barkingside trees.
Just one plaque visible (plus another subsumed into a still-expanding tree).
Compare Sir Frederic Wise, from Valentines - looks like the same crest (a tree within a shield outline).
Just one plaque visible (plus another subsumed into a still-expanding tree).
Compare Sir Frederic Wise, from Valentines - looks like the same crest (a tree within a shield outline).
![Tree plaque, Barkingside Recreation Ground, Ilford
James Deneson (?)
[1937 - from another photo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ljkd55p5hyfptvyqvnumago/bafkreifr72ixciihh2sc4ocdim7zf7q27aysml7q5ktxe5hq2d6xyj7fa4@jpeg)
June 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Belatedly got around to collating some photos of the Barkingside trees.
Just one plaque visible (plus another subsumed into a still-expanding tree).
Compare Sir Frederic Wise, from Valentines - looks like the same crest (a tree within a shield outline).
Just one plaque visible (plus another subsumed into a still-expanding tree).
Compare Sir Frederic Wise, from Valentines - looks like the same crest (a tree within a shield outline).
A slightly ragged winged green hairstreak, Callophrys rubi — looked like a walking leaf when I first spotted it —demonstrating how that green underwing coloration is produced by diffraction of light falling onto the intricate wing scales.
April 30, 2025 at 7:45 AM
A slightly ragged winged green hairstreak, Callophrys rubi — looked like a walking leaf when I first spotted it —demonstrating how that green underwing coloration is produced by diffraction of light falling onto the intricate wing scales.
And more #TreeFlowers for #WildflowerHour - Fairlop Waters, again, Bedfords Park
April 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
And more #TreeFlowers for #WildflowerHour - Fairlop Waters, again, Bedfords Park
Willows at Fairlop Waters Country Park - I think one goat/pussy willow, one white/weeping…or something else?
#TreeFlowers #WildflowerHour
#TreeFlowers #WildflowerHour
April 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Willows at Fairlop Waters Country Park - I think one goat/pussy willow, one white/weeping…or something else?
#TreeFlowers #WildflowerHour
#TreeFlowers #WildflowerHour
A small selection from the owl pellet “haul” in March.
We thought vole (teeth), possibly bank vole given the absence of a “chin”?
Thanks to Beth from #HainaultForestCountryPark for cleaning the finds & to
@fieldstudiesc.bsky.social for the handy guide to pellet finds!
We thought vole (teeth), possibly bank vole given the absence of a “chin”?
Thanks to Beth from #HainaultForestCountryPark for cleaning the finds & to
@fieldstudiesc.bsky.social for the handy guide to pellet finds!
April 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
A small selection from the owl pellet “haul” in March.
We thought vole (teeth), possibly bank vole given the absence of a “chin”?
Thanks to Beth from #HainaultForestCountryPark for cleaning the finds & to
@fieldstudiesc.bsky.social for the handy guide to pellet finds!
We thought vole (teeth), possibly bank vole given the absence of a “chin”?
Thanks to Beth from #HainaultForestCountryPark for cleaning the finds & to
@fieldstudiesc.bsky.social for the handy guide to pellet finds!
In a forest at the weekend…#HainaultForest, #WoodlandTrust, that is.
April 1, 2025 at 6:54 PM
In a forest at the weekend…#HainaultForest, #WoodlandTrust, that is.
Visit to #EssexWildlifeTrust Thameside Nature Discovery Park yesterday.
Teal, redshank & moorhens in the inlets (before the tide came in); little egret landing on the mudflats beyond; kestrel hanging over the picnic area.
But we probably spent as long looking at the early spring flowers!
Teal, redshank & moorhens in the inlets (before the tide came in); little egret landing on the mudflats beyond; kestrel hanging over the picnic area.
But we probably spent as long looking at the early spring flowers!
April 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Visit to #EssexWildlifeTrust Thameside Nature Discovery Park yesterday.
Teal, redshank & moorhens in the inlets (before the tide came in); little egret landing on the mudflats beyond; kestrel hanging over the picnic area.
But we probably spent as long looking at the early spring flowers!
Teal, redshank & moorhens in the inlets (before the tide came in); little egret landing on the mudflats beyond; kestrel hanging over the picnic area.
But we probably spent as long looking at the early spring flowers!
March 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
February 23, 2025 at 11:19 AM
1 (just ONE) skylark.
If you turn up the sound…
You probably had to be there.
If you turn up the sound…
You probably had to be there.
February 23, 2025 at 9:01 AM
1 (just ONE) skylark.
If you turn up the sound…
You probably had to be there.
If you turn up the sound…
You probably had to be there.
“…the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever.”
Just finished reading “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis.
“Eerily prescient” — The Guardian (of a stage adaptation in 2016).
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can'...
Just finished reading “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis.
“Eerily prescient” — The Guardian (of a stage adaptation in 2016).
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can'...
February 5, 2025 at 11:45 AM
“…the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever.”
Just finished reading “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis.
“Eerily prescient” — The Guardian (of a stage adaptation in 2016).
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can'...
Just finished reading “It Can’t Happen Here” by Sinclair Lewis.
“Eerily prescient” — The Guardian (of a stage adaptation in 2016).
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can'...
Images from a frosty Sunday morning, already a fading memory of a brief cold snap.
January 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Images from a frosty Sunday morning, already a fading memory of a brief cold snap.
Having been told about the pending emergence of tiny female flowers on hazel trees at an inspiring “Nature Corner” event hosted by Beth of the #WoodlandTrust we didn’t expect to see any until the New Year…then spotted this growing on a hazel hedge at Hainault Forest Country Park! #WildflowerHour
December 15, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Having been told about the pending emergence of tiny female flowers on hazel trees at an inspiring “Nature Corner” event hosted by Beth of the #WoodlandTrust we didn’t expect to see any until the New Year…then spotted this growing on a hazel hedge at Hainault Forest Country Park! #WildflowerHour
The medusa of #HainaultForest.
Actually, a turkey oak acorn cup.
Actually, a turkey oak acorn cup.
November 19, 2024 at 8:16 PM
The medusa of #HainaultForest.
Actually, a turkey oak acorn cup.
Actually, a turkey oak acorn cup.
To Poppy Fields at the Tower yesterday - a very moving experience, and very clever use of an always impressive space.
November 15, 2024 at 2:31 PM
To Poppy Fields at the Tower yesterday - a very moving experience, and very clever use of an always impressive space.