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Mary B
@beesincampanula.bsky.social
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I should have been a pair of ragged claws…
Reads 📚Writes 📚Haunts museums, art galleries, ancient sites, woodland and marshes. #amquerying
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Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social · Nov 17
If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
Spike Milligan
A path in a birch wood strewn with autumn leaves
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curiousordinary.bsky.social
...night herons but other wild birds like ducks and pheasants may also become this yokai.
🎨1 & 4. Matthew Meyer @yokai.com
2. pandorasboxisopen, tumblr
3. Toriyama Sekien
5. Onibi (Wakan Sansai Zue)
6. ShotaKotake
7. 'Night Heron' - Ohara Koson, ca. 1910.
#JapaneseArt
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Japanese print depicting a heron on a branch.
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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curiousordinary.bsky.social
...water, generally preferring locations where they can hide among thick reeds. This phenomenon was first recorded by Toriyama Sekien in his Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki (1779) which depicted a night heron with a mysteriously illuminated body. Aosagibi are mostly transformed...
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A blue heron surrounded by a blue light.
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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curiousordinary.bsky.social
Onibi are ghost lights formed by the spirits of dead humans or animals. Although they look beautiful, they have been known to lure people and suck out their life force until they die. Hidama are one type of onibi that can manifest in the shape of birds. Aosagibi live near rivers and bodies of...
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Balls of blue light float above a lake with mountains beyond. Black and white illustration of floating fireball.
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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curiousordinary.bsky.social
Thank you so much, I really appreciate your kind words. I've been feeling quite disheartened lately and so these words really mean a lot, especially coming from you. 💙
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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11tulips.bsky.social
So lovely! I appreciate Japanese tales of transformation. It’s a common thread among many older cultures.

Comparitively, in the US… I reckon the biggest dream is to become a Social Influencer.
curiousordinary.bsky.social curious ordinary @curiousordinary.bsky.social · 8h
In #JapaneseFolklore there is a belief that when animals and birds reach advanced age they can transform into #yokai. Aosagibi (blue heron fire) is a phenomenon that occurs when an elderly night heron develops supernatural qualities. Over time the heron's feathers begin to...
#LegendaryWednesday
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A blue heron sits on the branch of a tree emitting a blue glow.
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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greenleejw.bsky.social
Public transport isn't just for Middle Earth. Narnia's getting in on the act!

I've drawn a subway map covering all 7 books of The Chronicles of Narnia. Follow the plots lines, but don't touch the third rail! #Narnia #Maps #Subway

You can buy prints on my Etsy store:
www.etsy.com/listing/4345...
A subway style map on a parchment background. The map's title reads: "Narnia Transit Map: Talking Beasts Ride Free." The map has seven keys, one for each of the seven books in C.S. Lewis's Narinia series. The main movements of characters and action in each book are traced by colored lines, like a subway map. Locations in each book are marked out as stops in the lines. There is a drawing of a lion above the title of the map, and in the lower right corner there is a compass rose. A subway style map on a parchment background. The map's title reads: "Narnia Transit Map: Talking Beasts Ride Free." The map has seven keys, one for each of the seven books in C.S. Lewis's Narinia series. The main movements of characters and action in each book are traced by colored lines, like a subway map. Locations in each book are marked out as stops in the lines. There is a drawing of a lion above the title of the map, and in the lower right corner there is a compass rose.
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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bird-nerdco.bsky.social
Lovely specimen of an Aberrant ammonite (Didymoceras cheyenense) unearthed in an unspecified portion of the former Western Interior Seaway
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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drrjwarren.bsky.social
#ArtDD2025
Bunny

I sat down to paint some architecture - but something went wrong along the way.😄

@saocousins.bsky.social @andykaitken.bsky.social @stevecobbin.bsky.social @holnicotenh.bsky.social @indikon.bsky.social @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social
Profile of wild rabbit, looking to left, big black eye, ears straight up, fur a mix of grey and brown, bit of russet around the neck and nose.
November 26, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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ronmac11.bsky.social
Grey wagtail, Canary Islands.
#birds
#plants
A patch of cactus with a bird perched in the middle.
November 26, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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kimaldis.bsky.social
Exeter, 2019

#streetphotography
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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signemaene.com
'The fading leaves are glad to die'
-Sara Teasdale

🎨John Atkinson Grimshaw
Painting of a street at night. Woman in the distance. leafless trees. Light on the road. Dark, green sky.
November 26, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
The river carves the land. Collects its gossip, hears all its spirited stories. Blends them into its own song. Witches listen to this fluid singing of place, gathers omens as they float by. She runs with the river and absorbs its wisdom. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
November 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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ebpgenome.bsky.social
💥🧬 Why sequence ALL insect genomes?
Because insects run the planet. They pollinate our crops, recycle nutrients, build soils, drive food webs, and shape ecosystems on every continent. 🌍
Yet we’ve only scratched the surface of their genomic diversity.
#InsectBiotech #BiodiversityMatters #InsectLovers
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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linda2.bsky.social
A Shag nesting on the edge of the Cornish coast!

#UKWildlife #Birds #BirdOfTheDay #OnTheEdge #Ornithology #Photography #BirdPhotography
A shag bird collecting grass to build her nest on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall. She is poised with head turned looking out to sea with grass in her beak.
November 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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hookland.bsky.social
Hookland Unexplained Team (HUT) have made a career of turning up to places where a bloke coming back from the pub has seen a movement in the hedge and assumed it’s a Star Wraith or a Harrow Hound. You journalists have enabled them in scaring the populace because bullshit sells papers. - #DICallaghan
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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manderleypress.bsky.social
Showcasing China Court🪷
Our epic novel by Rumer Godden, set in Cornwall and spanning five generations of one very dramatic family. A new Manderley Press edition, brought to life beautifully with an intro by Linda Grant and a front cover by Emily Maude
manderleypress.com/shop/p/chinacourt
#booksky
China court by Rumer Godden - a hard back Manderley Press book with a blue cloth spine and a jug of flowers on the front cover, surrounded by illustrations of the same flowers on blue and orange.
November 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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drnwillburger.bsky.social
This stunning head is part of a life-sized, free-standing sculpture and exemplifies an idealized portrayal of a ruler. This head has been attributed to Pharaoh Amasis (570-526 BC), who ascended to the throne through a military revolt. His rule then brought a new era of peace to the country.

📷 me
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A head of a dark grey stone Egyptian sculpture showing the striped nemes headdress and a prominent cobra (uraeus) at the center. The sculpture has rough, broken edges and sits on a light-colored pedestal in front of a beige wall.
November 26, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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racheldeering.bsky.social
Book Cover of the Day:
A Lady’s Cruise, The ‘Wa Kalou’, God’s Own Fern, Green cover with dark green lettering and decoration, decorated with Fern leaves.
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Cal Lane, Canadian trained welder and metal artist, transforms common tools and also industrial steel products into intricate sculptures #WomensArt
Photo of two spades against a white surface, the metal blade part has been cut into lace like patterns
November 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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russblackman.bsky.social
Hume's Leaf Warbler was showing and calling well at Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory.
November 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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linda2.bsky.social
If I told you about my day, you would not believe me. Here is a moulting heron instead.

#UKWildlife #Birds #GreyHeron #ornithology #Photography
A heron preening her feathers. She looks bedraggled and the outer layer of her beak peeling.
November 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Goodnight from Jack Hurley, still taking helpful directions from his dead wife as he pushes their Vauxhall Victor F towards Burwood. Goodnight from Chas Foster, fixing newspapers to the windows of his shed so no-one can see him making illegal sprite traps. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
Give me sunlight, a comfortable chair and a wall of books! This makes me declare myself a most satisfied soul. For the library is a territory of wonder. It is home to a thousand wise voices who know words that open gates to the imagination. – #CLNolan, BBC National Programme, 1934 #Libraries
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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seawindowcraster.bsky.social
25th November 2025 13.37
Too cold for gold
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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hookland.bsky.social
People ask why I followed The Hum wanting trite answers about a disaffected youth looking for direction. Walking The Hum pylon-to-pylon gave me spiritual direction, but no-one wants to hear about my devotional relationship to the land's electric leys. – Trippy Pete, ex-Pylon Person #VOH
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM