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Hairy Neil
@rovingrollo.bsky.social
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Retired. Interested in Landscape and Nature Photography, Climate Change, Ecology, History. Left Leaning. Member of #EastCoastKin

Now working on a blog about my travels and eco-gardening https://rovingrollo.co.uk

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Hairy Neil @rovingrollo.bsky.social · Apr 30
I've finally managed to finish the next instalment of our Eco-Gardening blog. 🌱

I hope you enjoy reading it, feedback always welcome.

#Gardening #Eco-Gardening #Nature #Photography #Garden #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin

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In an English Country Garden - April 2025 Update
A tale of two rank amateurs attempting to work with Nature. April short of Showers
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“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. ”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
three trees of different heights with a tiny barely visible bird near the middle.
November 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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"Guiding Light"

Light entering Antelope Canyon hitting sand our guide threw in the air

#BlueSkyArtShow #bright
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTForTelevision

#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography
#ArtYear
A bright light shaped like a human head and torso under a beam of light in an orange shot canyon with undulating curves
November 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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"And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky."

-Rabindranath Tagore
vegetation near a small amount of water in front of stone with tall trees in the background.
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. — Rabindranath Tagore

#MorningDew #Grass #Sonyalpha #Nature #NatureJewels #Photography #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotoHour
Morning dew balancing on the fronds of grass. Rabindranath Tagore was an Indian poet, novelist, musician, playwright, and painter. He was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Tagore is considered one of the greatest literary figures of modern India and is known for his poems, novels, and plays.
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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We don't often get snow on the North Norfolk coast, so when we do, a few #bright red apples are a welcome present for the garden birds.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#HolidayRobin
#birds #birdphotography #Birdlife
A shiny bright red and yellow apple sits on a snow covered log. A red Robin stands to the right, tail cocked. Its head is at a jaunty angle, and its face is bright orangey red. The background is snowy.
November 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Coots or Moorhens or Ducklings? Why can’t the #BirdOfTheDay theme ever be gulls? it would make it much easier for me! @robcrank68.bsky.social
@alan678.bsky.social
I only have one really bad picture of a #duckling, but I guess it will have to do 🦆🤷‍♀️
#EastCoastkin
#WestCoastKin
#Oregon #PNW
#Nature
a female Common Merganser is swimming in a body of water with several of her ducklings. The female is identifiable by her elegant gray body and rich, cinnamon-colored head with a short, shaggy crest. There are approximately seven small, brown and fluffy ducklings swimming near her. The water is blue and green, with ripples and sunlight reflecting off the surface.
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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The weekend starts here!

Glorious icebergs in Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon, earlier this month.

#Iceland #CanonR6II
A placid glacial lagoon crammed with turquoise icebergs, reflected in the still waters. Behind are some mountains and the glacier itself that feeds the lagoon, and above is a tiny bright patch with darker clouds above.
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Eunice Newton Foote discovered the Greenhouse Effect.Her first paper was in the "Annual Scientific Discovery", with the paper, "Circumstances Affecting the Heat of the Sun's rays".She was the first person to show that carbon dioxide is a heat-trapping gas in 1856.
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Eunice Newton Foote, a pioneer in greenhouse research - Rincón educativo
Eunice Newton Foote, a pioneer in greenhouse research.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Here is a #bright white swan for today’s #BlueSkyArtShow #birds #EastCoastKin
A swan lifting its head from the river, water trailing down its beak.
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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This week's #AlphabetChallenge is on the theme #WeekTforTelevision

'Shetland' (BBC Detective series)... This house featured as the home of Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez

The Lodberrie, #Lerwick, #Shetland, #Scotland. September 2021. More in Alt Text

#UrbanScape #Photography #EastCoastKin
An old stone building which stands with it's foundations in the water of the harbour. Between the two blocks that make up the building a red and white dingy hangs from a boom arm. The name "Lodberries" comes from the Old Norse word hladberg, meaning a landing rock, as the buildings were historically used as waterfront stores. It is one of Shetland's oldest buildings still in use, dating back to the 17th century.
November 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Good morning friends.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #CootsAndMoorhens, and the Alternative for today is #Ducklings

I've gone with a Moorhen & Chick and a Coot & Chick from Yarrow Valley Country Park

#birds #EastCoastKin #naturephotography #ukbirding #birdphotography @rspb.bsky.social #BirdLife
A Moorhen up in a bush over the water at Yarrow Valley Country Park, Chorley, Lancashire. A Moorhen chick walking along the path at Yarrow Valley Country Park, Chorley, Lancashire. A Coot about to have a scratch while standing on a floating log at Yarrow Valley Country Park, Chorley, Lancashire. A pair of Coot Chicks swimming side by side at Yarrow Valley Country Park, Chorley, Lancashire.
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 AM
rovingrollo.bsky.social
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme (set by @robcrank68.bsky.social) is #CootsAndMoorhens, and the Alternative is #Ducklings.

I have no Coots or Moorhens and these are the only ducklings I have (Full story in Alt Text)

#Birds #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin
Four Mallard ducklings with their Mum in the top left corner. The picture was taken from inside our front door porch, I spotted the mother and the ducklings in one of the flowers beds in our front garden, they wandered around for a good 10 minutes (seeking shelter presumably) then waddled out onto the pavement and off down the road !
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Settle Railway Station from 2022
Hello! The TV programme is "Great British Railway Journeys" with Michael Portillo, BBC2. This wonderful station at #Settle is on the very scenic & historic Settle to Carlisle Railway line finished in 1876.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision #railways #stations
A colour photograph in landscape format. It shows some of the station buildings and platform at a small historic station in North Yorkshire. The buildings are a lovely golden stone and the paintwork is a deep red. there are many flowers on the platform in pinks and reds.
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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#BlueskyArtShow #Bright

The bright morning light after snowfall.

#EastCoastKin #Snow #LandscapePhotography #CarsonValley
The morning sun is brightly illuminating the valley covered with snow, and accentuates the tire tracks leading to a farmhouse. There is a white fence to the right and barbed wire to the left with a couple of trees. The sky is blue except for long rows of clouds. This is the Carson Valley in Nevada.
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The setting sun lights up the underside of the Gordon Street Bridge in #Guelph #BlueskyArtShow #Bright #Photography
the setting sun lighting up the underside of a bridge over a river
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Hiking in the forests above Dublin, lots of interesting mushrooms to see. The first possibly a Brick Cap. The second probably Psilocybe, but as usual I'm not entirely sure.

#Hiking #Photography #EastCoastKin #mycology #Fungi #FungiFriends #Ireland
Growing from a dead tree, this whitish mushroom was coloured soft peach by the morning sun. A small brown mushroom growing from a mossy bank, shining in the early morning sunlight, filtered through the trees.
November 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Stark Realities' (2025) -- Bright Hard Light Streams Through Tree Trunks at the Edge of the Forested Campsite, in the Distance a Few Camper / Trailers, Thomas Point Beach, Outer Brunswick, ME

#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
several spaced apart trees casting hard shadows from the bright light, their black twisted barren branches forming shapes against the white sky - in the distance in the snow covered parking lot at least 2 camper / trailers are parked
November 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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A Great Tit imitating a bullet. This little chirper flew straight towards the camera.

#birds #birdphotography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography
A Great Tit flying straight towards the camera. The bird has its wings tucked in to become more aerodynamic.
November 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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November brings rain and darkness to this part of the world, but it also brings back the Short-eared Owl. I’ll take that trade any day. Richmond BC, November 2025.

#birds #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #owls
A Short-eared Owl, with its yellow eyes and round face pointed intently forward, spreads its wings as it glides a few feet off the brown grasses of a tidal flat.
November 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Another on for the #BlueSkyArtShow on the theme #GreenSat

Crab Apple (Malus sylvestris), North Essex, #EastAnglia, UK. November 2025

This is from just one tree in a hedgerow. Birds and mammals love to eat the fruit.

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#Trees #Nature #Photography #EastCoastKin
Dozens of these wild apples lie amongst nettles beneath the tree. They range in colour from green, to red and yellow. Crab apples can vary enormously. Although they are the wild ancestors of our commercial apples (a species that varies enormously in its own right), many trees you come across in the wild have grown from domestic apples that have self-seeded, and either reverted to a wild form or crossed with true crabs. The closer they are to the domestic parents, the larger and sweeter their fruit will be. The crab apple is one of the few host trees to the parasitic mistletoe, Viscum album, and trees are often covered in lichens. While domesticated apple (of which there are more than 6,000 varieties), originated in Central Asia where its wild ancestor, Malus sieversii, is still found today, our native crab apple also contributed to the genetic makeup of the species as domesticated apples were traded and spread throughout Europe.
November 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The Secret Life of Trees
The low winter sun highlights the evergreens in the woods.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision
#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright
#ColorADay #GreenSat
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#EastCoastKin
A vertical photograph taken inside a dense, tall pine and fir forest. The view is dominated by straight, parallel tree trunks that rise high out of the dark forest floor. The setting sun bursts through the trees in the centre of the image, creating a strong starburst effect and bathing the scene in a warm, golden, and green light.
November 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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'Bathing in Moonlight' (2023) -- a Luxuriously Slow, Barefoot, Moonlit Walk Along an Isolated Beach After Dinner Becomes a Moment of Escapist Splendor, Cảnh Dương, Central Vietnam

#Scape ✨ #BlueSkyArtShow #Bright ✨

#Photography #Landscape
#Monochrome #ClassicMono
#EastCoastKin #JayceeCrawford
the full moon, brightening an otherwise stormy evening, illuminates the mists and humidity creating a world of wet, reflective surfaces
November 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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A new day dawns
holding myriad possibilities
What will you make it?

Wishing you a #bright and beautiful Saturday☀️

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #GoldenHour #oceanscape #photography #photographersofbluesky #Florida
A just risen yellow sun, it's yellow and orange corona, and a sun flare shining diagonally to the right sits low on the horizon in a orange and gray sky over the charcoal and orange Atlantic Ocean. Small puffy black clouds spread horizontally just above where the ocean meets the sky. A morning walker is highlighted at the end of the vertical sun reflection on the brown shore.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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#BirdOfTheDay #Swans

A black swan spotted in the Yarra River.

#EastCoastKin #BlackSwan #Birds
A black swan with a red and white beak is swimming in the river.
November 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Good morning Sunday! A bit of autumn fog....
#Photography #Stunday #Nature #Landscape
A landscape horizontal photo of the sun shining through the morning fog. The landscape is of rolling hill with trees and bushes. The sun is casting moody shadows and leaves are in silhouette. Shades of browns and oranges.
October 5, 2025 at 9:39 AM