Andrew Weston
@groatbury.bsky.social
Earthling, retired ecological surveyor, environmentalist, lefty, internationally unrecognised nature photographer, guitarist, obsessive O'Carolan arranger, early musicke aficionado, Yorkshire droll exiled to Raspberry Republic of Scotland.
#SaveCoulLinks from neoliberal 🌊🏌️⛳✈️
I vote for @snp.org & @scottishgreens.org MSPs because Scotland has PR but worry about right-wing shift. Representatives of other parties, like our @libdems.org.uk MP, @jamie4north.bsky.social, promote environmental destruction of Loch Fleet Ramsar SSSI.
I vote for @snp.org & @scottishgreens.org MSPs because Scotland has PR but worry about right-wing shift. Representatives of other parties, like our @libdems.org.uk MP, @jamie4north.bsky.social, promote environmental destruction of Loch Fleet Ramsar SSSI.
December 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
#SaveCoulLinks from neoliberal 🌊🏌️⛳✈️
I vote for @snp.org & @scottishgreens.org MSPs because Scotland has PR but worry about right-wing shift. Representatives of other parties, like our @libdems.org.uk MP, @jamie4north.bsky.social, promote environmental destruction of Loch Fleet Ramsar SSSI.
I vote for @snp.org & @scottishgreens.org MSPs because Scotland has PR but worry about right-wing shift. Representatives of other parties, like our @libdems.org.uk MP, @jamie4north.bsky.social, promote environmental destruction of Loch Fleet Ramsar SSSI.
#Birds #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
Above is a fake Waxwing superimposed on a real photograph.
For comparison, my (copyright) photographs are of a real Bohemian Waxwing & garden Cotoneaster taken in Scotland.
Above is a fake Waxwing superimposed on a real photograph.
For comparison, my (copyright) photographs are of a real Bohemian Waxwing & garden Cotoneaster taken in Scotland.
November 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#Birds #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
Above is a fake Waxwing superimposed on a real photograph.
For comparison, my (copyright) photographs are of a real Bohemian Waxwing & garden Cotoneaster taken in Scotland.
Above is a fake Waxwing superimposed on a real photograph.
For comparison, my (copyright) photographs are of a real Bohemian Waxwing & garden Cotoneaster taken in Scotland.
#Birds #Waxwing
Between snow showers I saw a Long-tailed Tit in the garden (like this one), so grabbed a camera, but it had gone, & luckily instead photographed over hedge for 15 seconds in neighbour's garden, a single fleeting & silent Bohemian Waxwing. Dornoch, Sutherland (19.11.2025).
Between snow showers I saw a Long-tailed Tit in the garden (like this one), so grabbed a camera, but it had gone, & luckily instead photographed over hedge for 15 seconds in neighbour's garden, a single fleeting & silent Bohemian Waxwing. Dornoch, Sutherland (19.11.2025).
November 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Solar fields swallowing habitats on less agriculturally productive land are bad news too. Roofs are the least damaging locations.
📷Herring Gulls attempt to nest on neighbour's solar panel every year.
📷Herring Gulls attempt to nest on neighbour's solar panel every year.
November 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Solar fields swallowing habitats on less agriculturally productive land are bad news too. Roofs are the least damaging locations.
📷Herring Gulls attempt to nest on neighbour's solar panel every year.
📷Herring Gulls attempt to nest on neighbour's solar panel every year.
🙄As a pedant, I must point out that t-shirt 4 is navy blue.
October 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🙄As a pedant, I must point out that t-shirt 4 is navy blue.
#Birds
Your captioned photograph is of Cedar Waxwings. The most obvious difference to Bohemian Waxwing is the yellow flanks.
My photos are of a Bohemian Waxwing in Dornoch, Scotland.
Your captioned photograph is of Cedar Waxwings. The most obvious difference to Bohemian Waxwing is the yellow flanks.
My photos are of a Bohemian Waxwing in Dornoch, Scotland.
October 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
#Birds
Your captioned photograph is of Cedar Waxwings. The most obvious difference to Bohemian Waxwing is the yellow flanks.
My photos are of a Bohemian Waxwing in Dornoch, Scotland.
Your captioned photograph is of Cedar Waxwings. The most obvious difference to Bohemian Waxwing is the yellow flanks.
My photos are of a Bohemian Waxwing in Dornoch, Scotland.
The much showier small-flowered Cotula hispida in a Sutherland garden, where it belongs.
October 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
The much showier small-flowered Cotula hispida in a Sutherland garden, where it belongs.
Is this a promise to recover spent & hidden squandered public money? Good luck!
October 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Is this a promise to recover spent & hidden squandered public money? Good luck!
I'm not a fan of rogue state Israel or any far right criminals there or in UK, so don't quibble about journalism here, but the informal use of the term 'invite', strictly speaking a verb, as a noun instead of 'invitation', jars with this pedant.
October 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I'm not a fan of rogue state Israel or any far right criminals there or in UK, so don't quibble about journalism here, but the informal use of the term 'invite', strictly speaking a verb, as a noun instead of 'invitation', jars with this pedant.
My last conversation with Todd Warnock, co-director of Coul Links Ltd with developer Mike Keiser, on eve of November hearing ended:
"It's such an opportunity for the area. Thanks Andy!"
"Golf courses are ten a penny in Scotland but Coul Links is a special environment."
"Fuck the environment!"
"It's such an opportunity for the area. Thanks Andy!"
"Golf courses are ten a penny in Scotland but Coul Links is a special environment."
"Fuck the environment!"
September 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My last conversation with Todd Warnock, co-director of Coul Links Ltd with developer Mike Keiser, on eve of November hearing ended:
"It's such an opportunity for the area. Thanks Andy!"
"Golf courses are ten a penny in Scotland but Coul Links is a special environment."
"Fuck the environment!"
"It's such an opportunity for the area. Thanks Andy!"
"Golf courses are ten a penny in Scotland but Coul Links is a special environment."
"Fuck the environment!"
@tommckinney.bsky.social
Woodpigeon
Woodpigeon
September 24, 2025 at 7:19 AM
@tommckinney.bsky.social
Woodpigeon
Woodpigeon
#SaveCoulLinks for Fonseca's Seed-fly (& >1400 other species)
Scottish Natural Heritage
Commissioned Report No. 618:
Survey and ecology of Botanophila fonsecai
Ackland (Diptera, Anthomyiidae), a seed-fly
endemic to Scotland
D. Gibbs, 2013.
Scottish Natural Heritage
Commissioned Report No. 618:
Survey and ecology of Botanophila fonsecai
Ackland (Diptera, Anthomyiidae), a seed-fly
endemic to Scotland
D. Gibbs, 2013.
September 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
#SaveCoulLinks for Fonseca's Seed-fly (& >1400 other species)
Scottish Natural Heritage
Commissioned Report No. 618:
Survey and ecology of Botanophila fonsecai
Ackland (Diptera, Anthomyiidae), a seed-fly
endemic to Scotland
D. Gibbs, 2013.
Scottish Natural Heritage
Commissioned Report No. 618:
Survey and ecology of Botanophila fonsecai
Ackland (Diptera, Anthomyiidae), a seed-fly
endemic to Scotland
D. Gibbs, 2013.
#SaveCoulLinks
SNH @naturescot.bsky.social contractor recorded Fonseca's Seed-fly on dunes south of Cluain Burn, on species-rich non-SSSI part of Coul Links in different ownership, proposed to be a golf 'remediation' area, & other species here include Small Blue & Northern Brown Argus butterflies!
SNH @naturescot.bsky.social contractor recorded Fonseca's Seed-fly on dunes south of Cluain Burn, on species-rich non-SSSI part of Coul Links in different ownership, proposed to be a golf 'remediation' area, & other species here include Small Blue & Northern Brown Argus butterflies!
September 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
#SaveCoulLinks
SNH @naturescot.bsky.social contractor recorded Fonseca's Seed-fly on dunes south of Cluain Burn, on species-rich non-SSSI part of Coul Links in different ownership, proposed to be a golf 'remediation' area, & other species here include Small Blue & Northern Brown Argus butterflies!
SNH @naturescot.bsky.social contractor recorded Fonseca's Seed-fly on dunes south of Cluain Burn, on species-rich non-SSSI part of Coul Links in different ownership, proposed to be a golf 'remediation' area, & other species here include Small Blue & Northern Brown Argus butterflies!
🙄 @38degrees.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @scotwildlife.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @craigbennett3.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @n-t-s.bsky.social @mcsuk.bsky.social @scotlink.bsky.social @georgemcgavin.bsky.social @ramblersscotland.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Captive Mammillaria hahniana in a plant pot is a wild native of Mexico, usually with magenta flowers. The white-flowered form albiflora has pale yellow flowers with coffee-colored stripes & is more common in cultivation. This is 16 cm tall & was 50p from charity shop.
www.llifle.net/Encyclopedia...
www.llifle.net/Encyclopedia...
September 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Captive Mammillaria hahniana in a plant pot is a wild native of Mexico, usually with magenta flowers. The white-flowered form albiflora has pale yellow flowers with coffee-colored stripes & is more common in cultivation. This is 16 cm tall & was 50p from charity shop.
www.llifle.net/Encyclopedia...
www.llifle.net/Encyclopedia...
#SaveCoulLinks from invasive aliens. 🌊🏌️⛳✈️
@bsbibotany.bsky.social UK distribution of
Festuca rubra subspecies commutata surveyors:
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
@bsbibotany.bsky.social UK distribution of
Festuca rubra subspecies commutata surveyors:
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
September 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
#SaveCoulLinks from invasive aliens. 🌊🏌️⛳✈️
@bsbibotany.bsky.social UK distribution of
Festuca rubra subspecies commutata surveyors:
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
@bsbibotany.bsky.social UK distribution of
Festuca rubra subspecies commutata surveyors:
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
Redshank, Embo, Sutherland
September 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Redshank, Embo, Sutherland
Please read the entire conversation & think before engaging in panto dialectic & inventing your own lies. I never said I agreed entirely with Graham's joke but think the police & transgender response to it has been disproportionate. Read my non-violent posts & tweets about Gaza genocide too.
September 4, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Please read the entire conversation & think before engaging in panto dialectic & inventing your own lies. I never said I agreed entirely with Graham's joke but think the police & transgender response to it has been disproportionate. Read my non-violent posts & tweets about Gaza genocide too.