Janet Roch

View from Southern Morocco where the Sahara falls down to the Atlantic Ocean. The sun is shining brilliantly and the sky is cloudless. The photo is taken from the top of a rocky sandstone cliff, the same colour as the distant sand. The sea in the bay is dark blue reflecting the blue of the sky. There is a small spit of land projecting into the sea on the left side at the edge of which is a thin band of seaweed and in the distance the sand dunes form a hard line where they meet the sea on the other side of the bay. It looks hot (it was - our maximum temp while we were there was 45 deg celcius 🥵)

#Morocco 2025
Where The Desert Meets The Sea
A rim of seaweed lent a hint of green but the salty sea gave few plants any hope of water and the sand met the the softly lapping waves in a harsh line, matching the fierceness of the sun

#BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #Travel #Scape #photohour #naturetrek

Absolutely love these microscope pictures - the world is so beautiful and weird close up😆🥰

😢😡 The original provocation was awful but I simply don't understand how anyone can justify the inhumanity being done to the people of Gaza.

The beauty of that brickwork 😍😍

View of the Moroccan landscape in the high Atlas Mountains. The steep slopes are barren with red sandstone rocks, layers eroded away giving a striped appearance, while the softer slopes are tinged faintly green from sparse vegetation clinging onto life with the help of moisture in the mountain air in summer and snow in winter. in the valley the small stream is enough to give life to green trees and strong bushes making a marked contrast to the surrounding drier land. The layers of hills fade away into the background lit by the dappled light of the sun finding its way through the small blue gaps in the clouds. On the edge of a nearer hill a town is lit up by the sun, seemingly perched on a descending ridge. Zooming in reveals flat topped white buildings and a beautiful Minaret all of which look so clean amongst the rest of the dusty landscape

Sept '25 Just back from a #herps holiday 38 diff species + lots of other #wildlife
🧡 the stark beauty of the dry #Morocco #landscape of rocky formations perfect for filming #StarWars with green vegetation anywhere there was a hint of water

#Stunday #EastCoastKin #Photohour #travel #ArtYear

Full guide: Nesting & Overwintering Habitat for Pollinators and other Beneficial Insects https://xerces.org/sites/default/files/publications/18-014.pdf

Full guide: Nesting & Overwintering Habitat for Pollinators and other Beneficial Insects https://xerces.org/sites/default/files/publications/18-014.pdf

Full guide: Nesting & Overwintering Habitat for Pollinators and other Beneficial Insects https://xerces.org/sites/default/files/publications/18-014.pdf

Pruning tips to assist #CavityNesting insects and more from the excellent "Nesting & Overwintering Habitat for Pollinators and other Beneficial Insects" guide from @xercessociety.bsky.social - a Science-based invertebrate conservation nonprofit.

#Bugsky

PDF here:
xerces.org/sites/defaul...

Did u know? This autumn, don't clear away dead plants. Ladybirds sleep in curled up leaves; bees overwinter in hollow stems; caterpillars take refuge in long grass & spiders rely on dead stems to hang their webs on. It might look like *rubbish* to you, but it's home to someone else. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🕷️🪲🐞🐛

📌

A small tortoiseshell butterfly on a purple thistle. Grey gravel and green grass in the background.

Once again, for those in the back, our native pollinators love dandelions and thistles. There was an abundance of these butterflies out today.

#LifeHack get rid of your weeds by calling them flowers. 👍

#butterflies #pollinators #nature #insects #Ireland

Common Ragwort (biennial plant) a yellow flower, which has Cinnibar moth caterpillars on it which are orange and black striped, they feed on the plant, also Common Blue butterflies on flower visiting for nectar, growing alongside is a thistle, maybe Creeping Thistle a perennial plant spreading by rhizome growth. Beyond is the edge of a wheat crop with Common Poppy growing (an annual plant). A large flock of House Sparrow feeding on and flying into crop giving an impression of large numbers of birds. Beyond a small glimpse of a hedged field system, with perhaps Elm trees once a common sight in the rural landscape, blue sky and clouds complete this bucolic landscape.

Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe (1 December 1901 – 7 February 1979) was a major visual influence on my childhood. House Sparrows feeding on wheat, a story about abundance, about a pest, which became a beloved bird (for many people) which became scarce.

Fascinated by the mantis shrimp......☺️

Thanks for the brilliant thread - I was having a meal with some farmer friends the other day and his nonagenarian father, also a farmer, was describing how abundant the house sparrows were being paid by his dad the numbers he shot in the fields - still considers them to be a pest

Just stunning 😍😍😍 and just how a Gannet looks - they all look like they're plotting to murder you 😂

😂

Tbh not a big football fan - my son played Lacrosse with the Sheffield Steelers lacrosse club so that's where my alligiancies lie 😂😊

Bramall Lane! Just round the corner (or 2) from me 😊

North Rona is about 44 miles from the next bit of land we were travelling to!

Yes we definitely were 😊

It really should be called this😆 tho all parts of Ivy are special not just the gecko 's feet 😂😍

A few hours later crossing back to the Outer Hebrides- the sea had woken up! Timing is everything crossing from the sleeping quarters to the dining room 😂
Fairphone 5
#scotland #travel #sea #EastCoastKin

4.00 am anchor watch. The petrels have left their burrows for another day at sea and the world is calm and peaceful

Fair phone 5

#Sunrise #sea #Scotland #travel #EastCoastKin

ha - posted just as we left all signal behind on our way to 2 nights in St Kilda, so no longer #stunday or #journey but such a wonderful trip and beautiful bird I had to press resend anyway 😂😊

close up of a guillemot - a seabird from the Auk family with a pointed black bill, a dark brown head and upper body and wing, a white chest and belly with some white on its underwing seen here as it flaps its wings while still on the water

#Scotland July 6th 2025 our #journey took us to North Rhona famous for it's Auk colonies
The sea birds are all resplendent in their breeding plumage
The Guillemot shakes off after landing.
📷 Canon R5 500m f/8 1/1000s ISO 500

#Birds #ukbirding #Stunday #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #sensoryart

Thank you 😊

Photo of the island of Bearnaraigh Beag taken from the small cemetery hiding behind a wall in the rain. In the foreground is a lichen covered wall leading out to the sea, on its left is the beach of yellow sand where we landed in the zodiac. In the middle distance are small rocky Islands and in the far distance the mainland of the isle of Lewis. The sky is a blanket grey mirrored by the grey and green sea

The sky may be grey and the rain may be coming down #sideways at times but the Hebridean islands are still beautiful even when windswept
📷 Fair phone 5 unedited

#BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Scotland #sea #Scape #ArtYear #landscape #travel

Honestly, these islands are amazing - cold🤷( while the rest of the UK is scorching) windy, but the bird life is stunning. Only intermittent phones signal so most photos will have to wait till I get home.

Photo of a large stack (rock) in the North Atlantic ~49km north of mainland Scotland uninhabited except by sea birds - an important breeding area for Gannets which cover the main stack and make themselves known by their noise and the smell of their guano! In the foreground is the dark sea lapping up against seaweed covered rocks just above this the steep sides of bare rock rise up until there comes a point where the Atlantic storms fail to push the waves any further and the ledges can be covered in nesting seabirds - on this face mostly gannets

Sule Stack July 2025
What an amazing place the islands north of Scotland are. Our #journey is taking us through rough seas and calm but always full of awe

#birds #ukbirding #travel #nsture #sensoryart #artyear

View over the Scottish coastline.The fields are green from recent rain with a gorse hedge and scrub in the foreground.the sea is sparkling in the sunshine with blue sky and fluffy clouds belying the force 6 wind that is gusting

NC500 slowly traveling up to Scrabster - what a day blue sky and wind - a beautiful day to get outside 💚
Fair phone 5 unedited
#BlueSkyArtShow #Scotland #Travel #sea #Artyear #JuneSea

Sunset

Bonne soirée les Blueskies 🌠🌠

Video: Dogs cool off in Hampstead Heath pool during UK heat wave | Daily Mail Online A passerby captures footage of dogs trying to cool off by playing in Hampstead Heath pool in London, as a heat wave hits the United Kingdom, sending temperatures to record levels.

I know it's hot, but please don't let your dog swim if you have treated it with a spot-on flea treatment in the last 28 days
www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/v...