Dr Anke Marsh
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Dr Anke Marsh
@ankemarsh.bsky.social
Palaeoecology, natural history, science, flora, fauna, microfossils. Researcher, writer, editor, photographer she/her

Also @lnhs.bsky.social for London based natural history
Look at this ball of floof!

#HolidayRobin #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin
November 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Today’s BotD is head shots, alt of swans. I’ve got: cattle egret (Hawai’i), swan goose (London rescue), mallard (Rye Meads) and this swan (Rye Meads). Oh. Head shots, not headless shots. My bad…

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin
November 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Today’s photo is this #HolidayRobin who’s #OnTheEdge

Taken today in London

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Photography #EastCoastKin
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Sooo… pedestrians are supposed to go into the road?? 😳 (click and zoom in)

#RoadRepairs #Signs
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I’ve got one saying hello!

#HolidayRobin #Birds
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Hanging around - birds at unusual angles - is today’s theme. I’ve got to use my dangling crow. This one regularly flies from her nest in the cedar to a neighbour’s aerial to do her acrowbatic routine. Great fun to watch :))

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Crows
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Apparently it’s #MallardMonday!

Here’s my contribution…

#Birds #LondonBirds #Splash! #EastCoastKin #Photography
November 24, 2025 at 5:57 PM
BotD theme is warblers, or alt any bird with yellow eyes. Will do one of each today - common white throat from the local reserve and a male goldeneye from London Wetlands Centre

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #LondonBirds #Photography #EastCoastKin
November 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Enjoy these goofy mallards. They, and the other birbs of the lake, keep me sane 🥺
November 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Also this list is so good! Talking heads, joy division, Pretenders, Echo, B-52s, Devo, Tom Waites. Wow. Friend got me this shirt recently - yep, still listening to a lot from the 80s 🤣
November 23, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Mr & Mrs - male and female of the same kind - is the theme today.

Mallards (he’s happy because hehehe, but see next pic), crow family and parents regretting life choices, and two coots still in the honey moon phase

#BirdOfTheDay #UKBirding #Birds #Wetlands #LondonBirds #Photography #EastCoastKin
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
She is plotting. I am terrified.

#Caturday
November 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Bird of the day is a bird on a wire. My entry is this daredevil dunnock

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #LondonBirds #EastCoastKin
November 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Freshwater sponge spicule - about 100micrometres or so. Photo taken down the scope, then I had some fun in photoshop :))

Light microscopy at 400x

#BlueSkyArtShow #Small #Microscopy #Microfossils #EastCoastKin

@romanpalace.bsky.social - this is what freshwater sponges look like, with pizazz!
November 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Amsterdam of course has no shortage of canals. The water makes the city, beautiful, calming, inviting. And I really loved all of the houseboats, many of which were nicely decorated and adorned with plants

(Mix of iPhone and DSLR shots)

#CanalScapes #Scapes #Photography #Amsterdam
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Ya mean, like this? 🤣🤣🤣
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Literally 5 minutes later and seven drakes come out of the vegetation and this happens 😒
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Today’s bird of the day is gulls! Grounded gulls. Now the last photos I took of a grounded gull, well it was eating another bird 😳 Not sure if people want to see that? So will stick with this herring gull enjoying some fine dining in Amsterdam

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Gulls
November 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Bridge

Somewhere between Belgium and the Netherlands

iPhone something or other, shot through the train window

#Photography #Mono #EastCoastKin #Bridges
November 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Today’s bird of the day is thrushes. Such lovely birds, with lovely songs 😍 I’ve got 4 of the 5 thrushes found here in the UK - blackbird, Fieldfare, redwing and song thrush

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #LondonBirds #UKBirding #EastCoastKin #Photography 🦉📸
November 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Sending strength and healing vibes your way. Living with constant pain sucks. I’m so sorry. This is a photo of one of my fave spots in London. I go at least once a week to look at that tree, and to visit the birds. I hope it helps
November 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Kiddo and I took a quick trip to Amsterdam. I may have taken *some photos. It is such a photogenic city, so walkable (despite the anarcho-cyclists 🤣), so delicious (think I gained a few kilos). Will do a thread, starting with photos from the train :)

*British understatement

#Photography
November 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Round birbs is today’s BotD theme. Round floofy birbs 😍😍 I’ve got a portly pigeon from Amsterdam, a donut dunnock and a rotund robin from London, and a corpulent coot (last photo taken by my then 8yo)

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds
November 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Today’s bird of the day theme is mottled so here’s a lovely female mandarin duck showing off her mottling :)

#BirdOfTheDay #Birds #LondonBirds #EastCoastKin #BirdPhotography
November 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM