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Very showy, calling Humes Leaf Warbler in Lowestoft #ukbirding

Here’s a recent watercolor painting of a field of sunflowers under a purple sky. Serenity now! 🌻 Natureartstore.com • artnaturestore.redbubble.com • teepublic.com/user/natureartstore • Fine Art America: shorturl.at/VIrO2 #sunflower #sunflowers #sunflowerart #flowers #fineart #natureart #watercolor

If you're looking for a change in the weather, don't give up hope.

Whilst the next few days will remain unsettled and often wet, drier - albeit colder, weather is likely later in the week 📉

🌳🌳🌳 #trees #woodland #treeclub

The sky is filled by flying barnacle geese. Their wing beats are blurred reflecting the sense of movement

Good Day All. My image for the #BirdOfTheDay alt theme of #blurred - this view of a large flock of barnacle geese, taken as they took off when disturbed by a tractor. #Birds #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #birdphotography #photography #nature #naturephotography #shorebird #geese #wildfowl

BBC Radio 3
Words and Music

Now Playing
Dmitry Shostakovich & Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Polka (The Age of Gold)

Buzzard on a fence. Have a good day folks #rspb.bsky.social #rspb.scotland.bsky.social #NaturePhotography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #birdwatching #eastcoastkin

Coal tit in the bushes. Have a good day folks #rspb.bsky.social #rspb.scotland.bsky.social #NaturePhotography #nature #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #birdwatching #eastcoastkin

Late afternoon sun on the loch at Queens View in Perthshire, Scotland. 😊☀️💙🤍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

#blueskyartshow #sunlight #landscape ##landscapephotography
#eastcoastkin
#nature #beauty #hope #peace 🕊

FBI concluded Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t running a sex trafficking ring for powerful men, files show The FBI pored over Jeffrey Epstein’s bank records and emails. It searched his homes. It spent years interviewing his victims and examining his connections to some of the world’s most influential peopl...

If this is our government's position, then why not release ALL THE FILES?

There is an overwhelming amount of evidence being ignored here, including affidavits signed as sworn testimony under oath by the victims and pictures not yet released.

When are we going to start believing the victims?

BBC Radio 3
Words and Music

Now Playing
Antonín Dvořák & Black Dyke Band
Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

Two earthenware bowls, filled with a casserole of onions, herbs, pork sausages, haricot bens and broccoli. They sit on an old pine table.

For a freezing January day such as this, my sausage and beans supper. In my Kitchen Diary on the Observer App.

Ian Dunt is now a model of expletive restraint compared to his peak profanity era. Much appreciated by me.

Champagne too often disappointing for the price. French Cremants are much better value.

Stormbound

A bank of clouds sweep in from the South - rain following fast behind.

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#NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Storm #Rain #Harvest #EastCoastKin #Stunday #Scape

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Posted - any bird on a post or fence.
A magpie this afternoon.

Snow covered rocky mountainside feat. 2 climbers standing

My chilly walk yesterday reminded me of this photo of 2 climbers on Ben Nevis.
I’ve always hoped that at the moment the pic was taken, they were just chatting about what they were planning for tea that night.

Pic from @RoamMtns on Twitter years ago

Mountain at sunrise very little snow

G’mornin kids.
Be safe out there. 🫶🏻

Always a treat to see a Kingfisher. This one at East Cottingwith seeking breakfast in the Pocklington Canal. @ldvnnr.bsky.social @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Sunset at Ullswater, clam conditions, started off very cloudy but as which is part of the course in winter the cloudy skies started to dissapear and provided some lovely golden light filtered through the clouds

From a recent wander down to Ullswater. End of the day clearing skies provided some lovely light over the Helvellyn range and great reflections. PS I nearly packed up and went home, patience and cold hands sometimes pays off

#landscapephotography
#ullswater
#lakedistrict
#cumbria
#winter
#uk

In the foreground are the bare branches of two small trees. Behind them, the ice stands in peaks along the shore of the lake. The sun has just risen above the narrow band of clouds on the horizon and it has turned the sky, the clouds beneath it, and the lake a bright orange. There is a wide ribbon of sunlight reflected across the water all the way to the icy shoreline.

Lake Ontario at sunrise on Wednesday of this week.
#BlueskyArtShow #Sunshine #Photography #EastCoastKin

Fully in favour of content warnings. It's just good manners.

Osteospermum
February 7th 2026

Supreme Court allows abortion of 30-week pregnancy of a minor, upholds right to reproductive autonomy Supreme Court permits 30-week abortion for a minor, emphasizing reproductive autonomy and the risks of unsafe alternatives.

India's Supreme Court has allowed the medical termination of a 30-week pregnancy of a minor. The court highlighted women's right to reproductive autonomy, and noted that the minor had shown a clear and consistent unwillingness to continue the pregnancy.

Metatrichia floriformis - found in great numbers on decaying logs in my local woodland. Used the #smallrig RM03 to aid focus in a small stack of images

#myxomycetes #macrophotography #fungi #mycology ##slimemould #fungifriends

Love this image.

A ribbled nearly dried up puddle on a beach in the foreground leading into the distance. A silhouetted couple is walking over it in the background towards the left. At the horizon we see buildings from a harbour and industry. The sky is clouded but the sun pierces through softly, reflecting in the puddle.

#photography #nature #landscape #seascape #eastcoastkin #stunday #hoekvanholland

Tall Oaks #trees #woodland #treeclub

The White Tree

Early morning. So early, the mist lies heavy on the water, and the birds are still half asleep.
I'm not exactly awake either, running on no more than coffee and a vision of this tree in fog.

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#Wanaka, NewZealand
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"Look with your eyes. See with your Soul."

#Stunday #EastCoastKin

Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 2023. It’s a dark and rainy day in Portland, Oregon, and I felt the need for some color in my life. I think this fits the bill. #Photography #Architecture #Interior #Paris #France 📷