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.
You may know that ND also means neutral density, a dark photographic filter to allow slower exposure to blur action, like flowing water. I use graduated ND filters when I'm not feeling lazy, to darken the exposure of lighter areas of images, especially sky. 📷 Loch Fleet, Sutherland.
December 18, 2025 at 1:28 AM
You may know that ND also means neutral density, a dark photographic filter to allow slower exposure to blur action, like flowing water. I use graduated ND filters when I'm not feeling lazy, to darken the exposure of lighter areas of images, especially sky. 📷 Loch Fleet, Sutherland.
The similar Loch Fleet Ramsar SSSI golf planning application was refused by earlier centre-left SNP majority with Green influence but personnel change & politics is fickle.🤞
#SaveCoulLinks from #ClimateChaos, golf evangelism, the whims of right wing monetarist politics & planning deregulation. 🌊🏌️⛳✈️
#SaveCoulLinks from #ClimateChaos, golf evangelism, the whims of right wing monetarist politics & planning deregulation. 🌊🏌️⛳✈️
December 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The similar Loch Fleet Ramsar SSSI golf planning application was refused by earlier centre-left SNP majority with Green influence but personnel change & politics is fickle.🤞
#SaveCoulLinks from #ClimateChaos, golf evangelism, the whims of right wing monetarist politics & planning deregulation. 🌊🏌️⛳✈️
#SaveCoulLinks from #ClimateChaos, golf evangelism, the whims of right wing monetarist politics & planning deregulation. 🌊🏌️⛳✈️
🙄In yesterday's 2020 'Christmas' Gone Fishing, Bob identified a nosy Grey Seal off Staithes correctly but Paul described t'Yorkshire Esk valley as in 'winter's icy grip' while, from leaf colours, being filmed in October.🍂
📷Grey & Harbour Seals basking on sandbar, Loch Fleet, Sutherland, March 2024.
📷Grey & Harbour Seals basking on sandbar, Loch Fleet, Sutherland, March 2024.
December 10, 2025 at 11:48 AM
🙄In yesterday's 2020 'Christmas' Gone Fishing, Bob identified a nosy Grey Seal off Staithes correctly but Paul described t'Yorkshire Esk valley as in 'winter's icy grip' while, from leaf colours, being filmed in October.🍂
📷Grey & Harbour Seals basking on sandbar, Loch Fleet, Sutherland, March 2024.
📷Grey & Harbour Seals basking on sandbar, Loch Fleet, Sutherland, March 2024.
#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...
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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...