bevm1066
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Commenting on anything, used to be biased towards my broadcast technology career.
Nowadays, retired, so likely to be local things like wild flowers and countryside walking.
All images, unless otherwise credited: Bev MARKS©2025
Nowadays, retired, so likely to be local things like wild flowers and countryside walking.
All images, unless otherwise credited: Bev MARKS©2025
Extraordinary - helicopter of the bird world...
November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Extraordinary - helicopter of the bird world...
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November 16, 2025 at 7:31 AM
🚨To me the BBC is under attack 🚨 It seems our politicians are concerned about the Trump pronouncements but I don't want to see it paying ANYTHING to him. Please consider signing the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect the BBC: 38d.gs/2sa8
#Wildflowerhour
To me quite a few of the Stellaria are rather similar, but guessing these are Lesser Stitchwort (Stellaria graminea) - found in a long term slightly boggy hill top lay grass field....
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To me quite a few of the Stellaria are rather similar, but guessing these are Lesser Stitchwort (Stellaria graminea) - found in a long term slightly boggy hill top lay grass field....
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November 9, 2025 at 8:14 PM
#Wildflowerhour
To me quite a few of the Stellaria are rather similar, but guessing these are Lesser Stitchwort (Stellaria graminea) - found in a long term slightly boggy hill top lay grass field....
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To me quite a few of the Stellaria are rather similar, but guessing these are Lesser Stitchwort (Stellaria graminea) - found in a long term slightly boggy hill top lay grass field....
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#Wildflowerhour
Fuschia flower found in a hedge amongst ivy within a public open space - nearby a pot shaped clump of compost - naughty discarding, but a surviver continues to flower!
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Fuschia flower found in a hedge amongst ivy within a public open space - nearby a pot shaped clump of compost - naughty discarding, but a surviver continues to flower!
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November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
#Wildflowerhour
Fuschia flower found in a hedge amongst ivy within a public open space - nearby a pot shaped clump of compost - naughty discarding, but a surviver continues to flower!
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Fuschia flower found in a hedge amongst ivy within a public open space - nearby a pot shaped clump of compost - naughty discarding, but a surviver continues to flower!
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#Wildflowerhour
For UK watchers - appropriate to today - poppies doing well in a set aside area of a huge winter wheat field...
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For UK watchers - appropriate to today - poppies doing well in a set aside area of a huge winter wheat field...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
#Wildflowerhour
For UK watchers - appropriate to today - poppies doing well in a set aside area of a huge winter wheat field...
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For UK watchers - appropriate to today - poppies doing well in a set aside area of a huge winter wheat field...
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My research suggests: Helvella crispa, also known as the Fluted White Elfin Saddle, white saddle, elfin saddle or common helvel...
If so a first for me. Anyway a first!
If so a first for me. Anyway a first!
Can someone please help id this fungus, growing in a pretty damp grass verge location at a woodland edge - South East England coastal region. (No significant colour variation across the whole visible fruiting body.) #fungusfriends
November 5, 2025 at 9:56 AM
My research suggests: Helvella crispa, also known as the Fluted White Elfin Saddle, white saddle, elfin saddle or common helvel...
If so a first for me. Anyway a first!
If so a first for me. Anyway a first!
Can someone please help id this fungus, growing in a pretty damp grass verge location at a woodland edge - South East England coastal region. (No significant colour variation across the whole visible fruiting body.) #fungusfriends
November 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Can someone please help id this fungus, growing in a pretty damp grass verge location at a woodland edge - South East England coastal region. (No significant colour variation across the whole visible fruiting body.) #fungusfriends
Great image!
It seems this species can be found with berries and flowers at the same time, though latter are very small.
I've found it in woodlands and beside tracks, suggesting an ancient route, too.
It seems this species can be found with berries and flowers at the same time, though latter are very small.
I've found it in woodlands and beside tracks, suggesting an ancient route, too.
Butchers Broom now has large shiny red berries. It is an ‘ancient woodland indicator’ because it doesn’t spread easily to new woods. So where you see it, the woodland has usually been there for a very long time.
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Great image!
It seems this species can be found with berries and flowers at the same time, though latter are very small.
I've found it in woodlands and beside tracks, suggesting an ancient route, too.
It seems this species can be found with berries and flowers at the same time, though latter are very small.
I've found it in woodlands and beside tracks, suggesting an ancient route, too.
Simply, I think with cooling weather recently it is time to brighten up with this image of 2 weeks ago...
October 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Simply, I think with cooling weather recently it is time to brighten up with this image of 2 weeks ago...
Brilliant - our cats would never react to seeing something moving on the TV, or themselves walking by a mirror...
October 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Brilliant - our cats would never react to seeing something moving on the TV, or themselves walking by a mirror...
The fisherman, whose bright coloured float can be seen, said the Grey Heron always turned up when he had a catch! This one stretched out to show, surprising to me, very different wing feather colours.
October 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The fisherman, whose bright coloured float can be seen, said the Grey Heron always turned up when he had a catch! This one stretched out to show, surprising to me, very different wing feather colours.
#Wildflowerhour
At this time of year it is easy to assume there are very few wildflowers to be seen but this evening I found these flowers about 50m from where I am staying, in Norfolk.
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At this time of year it is easy to assume there are very few wildflowers to be seen but this evening I found these flowers about 50m from where I am staying, in Norfolk.
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October 12, 2025 at 6:50 PM
#Wildflowerhour
At this time of year it is easy to assume there are very few wildflowers to be seen but this evening I found these flowers about 50m from where I am staying, in Norfolk.
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At this time of year it is easy to assume there are very few wildflowers to be seen but this evening I found these flowers about 50m from where I am staying, in Norfolk.
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Tell me that image has NOT been processed?
Nevertheless eye catching!
Nevertheless eye catching!
A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt
October 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Tell me that image has NOT been processed?
Nevertheless eye catching!
Nevertheless eye catching!
#ThickTrunkTuesday How many would be needed to fully encircle this Wellingtonia/Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)?
Standing in a parkland copse with its base completely hidden on a gentle sloping High Weald parkland location...
Standing in a parkland copse with its base completely hidden on a gentle sloping High Weald parkland location...
September 30, 2025 at 7:35 AM
#ThickTrunkTuesday How many would be needed to fully encircle this Wellingtonia/Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)?
Standing in a parkland copse with its base completely hidden on a gentle sloping High Weald parkland location...
Standing in a parkland copse with its base completely hidden on a gentle sloping High Weald parkland location...
On This Day in Broadcasting History.... 1988 (37 years ago)
"BBC launched Radio Data System on VHF/FM radio, delivering programme names, TP/TA flags & auto tuning"
Umm, yes I was Project Manager! 😉
Actually auto-tuning was really the most important feature RDS gave to car radios!
"BBC launched Radio Data System on VHF/FM radio, delivering programme names, TP/TA flags & auto tuning"
Umm, yes I was Project Manager! 😉
Actually auto-tuning was really the most important feature RDS gave to car radios!
September 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
On This Day in Broadcasting History.... 1988 (37 years ago)
"BBC launched Radio Data System on VHF/FM radio, delivering programme names, TP/TA flags & auto tuning"
Umm, yes I was Project Manager! 😉
Actually auto-tuning was really the most important feature RDS gave to car radios!
"BBC launched Radio Data System on VHF/FM radio, delivering programme names, TP/TA flags & auto tuning"
Umm, yes I was Project Manager! 😉
Actually auto-tuning was really the most important feature RDS gave to car radios!
#wildflowerhour For a favourite, sticking to most recently seen at Rye Harbour Castle Water, a large patch of Marsh Mallow (Althaea officinalis), with just one or two flowers remaining after many earlier in the season. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
#wildflowerhour For a favourite, sticking to most recently seen at Rye Harbour Castle Water, a large patch of Marsh Mallow (Althaea officinalis), with just one or two flowers remaining after many earlier in the season. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#wildflowerhour Despite record braking very heavy rainfall in our area, yeterday, this hop (Humulus lupulus) still looks pristine and undamaged climbing up a telegraph pole. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
#wildflowerhour Despite record braking very heavy rainfall in our area, yeterday, this hop (Humulus lupulus) still looks pristine and undamaged climbing up a telegraph pole. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
On this day in 2001 (24 years ago):
The BBC split the London/SE England Tv region into two and Laurie Mayer presented the first edition of South East Today from Tunbridge Wells.
The BBC split the London/SE England Tv region into two and Laurie Mayer presented the first edition of South East Today from Tunbridge Wells.
September 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM
On this day in 2001 (24 years ago):
The BBC split the London/SE England Tv region into two and Laurie Mayer presented the first edition of South East Today from Tunbridge Wells.
The BBC split the London/SE England Tv region into two and Laurie Mayer presented the first edition of South East Today from Tunbridge Wells.
Given the debate about id cards and Unitary Authority creation in the UK, I thought this short text may have some resonance to follow.
Lots of parallels to follow in constructing Unitary Authorities!
Lots of parallels to follow in constructing Unitary Authorities!
September 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Given the debate about id cards and Unitary Authority creation in the UK, I thought this short text may have some resonance to follow.
Lots of parallels to follow in constructing Unitary Authorities!
Lots of parallels to follow in constructing Unitary Authorities!
Keeping buffers steel shiney or black?
August 31, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Keeping buffers steel shiney or black?
We had a good show for the early season ones, but nothing since - of the usual second flush. Has the drought been to blame?
For #MacroMonday this gorgeous Holly Blue butterfly feeding on Snowberry flowers in our garden. It's been a good year here for these little beauties! 💙 📷 🦋
Happy new week everyone 🕊️
#Photography #Nature #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin
Happy new week everyone 🕊️
#Photography #Nature #UKWildlife #EastCoastKin
August 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We had a good show for the early season ones, but nothing since - of the usual second flush. Has the drought been to blame?
#WildflowerHour Does this count? In my own garden, definitely not planted by us - so in a sense a wildflower! Very close to bird seed feeder, though... Apple-of-Peru (Nicandra physalodes)
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August 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#WildflowerHour Does this count? In my own garden, definitely not planted by us - so in a sense a wildflower! Very close to bird seed feeder, though... Apple-of-Peru (Nicandra physalodes)
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#WildflowerHour Sorry about this indistinct picture, taken in a hurry of a plant hemmed in by other's leaves, too. Seemed important because of status - beleived to be Red Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis angustifolia) at Rye Harbour NR seen on Wednesday.
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August 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
#WildflowerHour Sorry about this indistinct picture, taken in a hurry of a plant hemmed in by other's leaves, too. Seemed important because of status - beleived to be Red Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis angustifolia) at Rye Harbour NR seen on Wednesday.
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#WildflowerHour #PollinatorPals Too late, but those near matching yellows are rather perfect...
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August 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
#WildflowerHour #PollinatorPals Too late, but those near matching yellows are rather perfect...
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I think the Vipers Bugloss has not grown so vigourously this year - maybe due to dryness or early spring heat?
🌊 #ByTheSea for #WildflowerHour
Winchelsea Beach/Rye Harbour is a rich habitat 🩵🌸🌾🐚🌼💕🐝💗
Rosebay Willowherb
Sea Buckthorn
Yellow Horned Poppy
Centaury
Vipers Bugloss
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Winchelsea Beach/Rye Harbour is a rich habitat 🩵🌸🌾🐚🌼💕🐝💗
Rosebay Willowherb
Sea Buckthorn
Yellow Horned Poppy
Centaury
Vipers Bugloss
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August 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think the Vipers Bugloss has not grown so vigourously this year - maybe due to dryness or early spring heat?