Anne Charnock
@annecharnock.bsky.social
Writer. Dreams Before the Start of Time - Arthur C Clarke Award. Other novels - shortlists Philip K Dick, BSFA, Kitschies Awards. Alston Moor in Autumn 2026. Coastal hiker, bird watcher, cyclist. Rep’d Sarah Such.
For Monday: two harbour seals at Scalpsie Bay, Isle of Bute. 💚
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
For Monday: two harbour seals at Scalpsie Bay, Isle of Bute. 💚
Back on the Isle of Bute! Sunset stroll on Scalpsie Bay. 🙂
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Back on the Isle of Bute! Sunset stroll on Scalpsie Bay. 🙂
For Monday: Isle of Arran from the Isle of Bute.
October 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
For Monday: Isle of Arran from the Isle of Bute.
For Monday: a carrion crow inflight on a grey day.
Isle of Bute 💚
Isle of Bute 💚
October 20, 2025 at 7:03 AM
For Monday: a carrion crow inflight on a grey day.
Isle of Bute 💚
Isle of Bute 💚
Left to right: a bar-tailed godwit, a curlew facing the camera, and a little egret. We’re seeing more egrets this year on the Isle of Bute 💚
October 17, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Left to right: a bar-tailed godwit, a curlew facing the camera, and a little egret. We’re seeing more egrets this year on the Isle of Bute 💚
For Monday: fungi in my garden.
October 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
For Monday: fungi in my garden.
Heaps of praise for Nina Allan and A Granite Silence from critic Stuart Kelly. @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social A packed event. Fantastic conversation! 📚📚📚
October 2, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Heaps of praise for Nina Allan and A Granite Silence from critic Stuart Kelly. @wigtownbooktown.bsky.social A packed event. Fantastic conversation! 📚📚📚
Visiting Wigtown Book Festival for few days. And a great start with @dominicmhinde.bsky.social interviewed by Stuart Kelly about his new memoir/environmental history/travelogue Drifting North - Finding a sustainable future for Scotland’s past.
Can’t wait to read. 📚
Can’t wait to read. 📚
October 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Visiting Wigtown Book Festival for few days. And a great start with @dominicmhinde.bsky.social interviewed by Stuart Kelly about his new memoir/environmental history/travelogue Drifting North - Finding a sustainable future for Scotland’s past.
Can’t wait to read. 📚
Can’t wait to read. 📚
For Monday: seven cormorants. They love the old pier at Port Bannatyne. 💚
Isle of Bute
Isle of Bute
September 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
For Monday: seven cormorants. They love the old pier at Port Bannatyne. 💚
Isle of Bute
Isle of Bute
Such sunshine! I had to get out there.
Isle of Bute 💚😎☀️
Isle of Bute 💚😎☀️
September 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Such sunshine! I had to get out there.
Isle of Bute 💚😎☀️
Isle of Bute 💚😎☀️
Corvids and a cockle.
Isle of Bute.
💚
Isle of Bute.
💚
September 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Corvids and a cockle.
Isle of Bute.
💚
Isle of Bute.
💚
For Monday: 2 shots of Scalpsie Bay, 10 minutes apart 😎 ☔️
Isle of Bute
Isle of Bute
September 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
For Monday: 2 shots of Scalpsie Bay, 10 minutes apart 😎 ☔️
Isle of Bute
Isle of Bute
Cabbage white butterfly 💚
September 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Cabbage white butterfly 💚
Can’t wait to start. Saved for the weekend. 👀📚👀
August 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Can’t wait to start. Saved for the weekend. 👀📚👀
For Monday: Splendid outcrops of turkey tail mushrooms and trooping crumble cap mushrooms (fairy inkcaps) which I spotted last week in Munich’s riverside English Garden 💚🥰☀️
August 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
For Monday: Splendid outcrops of turkey tail mushrooms and trooping crumble cap mushrooms (fairy inkcaps) which I spotted last week in Munich’s riverside English Garden 💚🥰☀️
For Monday: a jackdaw striking a pose.
Isle of Bute.
Isle of Bute.
August 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
For Monday: a jackdaw striking a pose.
Isle of Bute.
Isle of Bute.
A lively opening event at Bute Noir: Nina Allan in conversation with @damedenisemina.bsky.social and @brookmyre.bsky.social A great start to the weekend 📚📚📚
August 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A lively opening event at Bute Noir: Nina Allan in conversation with @damedenisemina.bsky.social and @brookmyre.bsky.social A great start to the weekend 📚📚📚
For Monday: Carnage on the shoreline as a great black-backed gull scraps with a crab, which fails to fend off the attack. That’s nature!
Isle of Bute
Isle of Bute
July 28, 2025 at 7:46 AM
For Monday: Carnage on the shoreline as a great black-backed gull scraps with a crab, which fails to fend off the attack. That’s nature!
Isle of Bute
Isle of Bute
A bumper year for figs and apples, I reckon. 🤞
July 24, 2025 at 7:54 AM
A bumper year for figs and apples, I reckon. 🤞
For Monday: a meadow pipit, I’m fairly sure, with its distinctive long hind claw. 💚
Isle of Bute.
Isle of Bute.
July 21, 2025 at 8:30 AM
For Monday: a meadow pipit, I’m fairly sure, with its distinctive long hind claw. 💚
Isle of Bute.
Isle of Bute.
Grey heron inflight in evening light 💚
July 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Grey heron inflight in evening light 💚
Seal haulout at Scalpsie Bay, Isle of Bute 💚
July 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Seal haulout at Scalpsie Bay, Isle of Bute 💚
A female stonechat. A sweetie.
Isle of Bute
Isle of Bute
July 4, 2025 at 6:53 AM
A female stonechat. A sweetie.
Isle of Bute
Isle of Bute
Sunrise on the Kyles of Bute.
July 2, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Sunrise on the Kyles of Bute.
For Monday: clematis in my garden! 💚
June 30, 2025 at 7:18 AM
For Monday: clematis in my garden! 💚