Robbie Rowe

@privateshufti
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Husband, father, healthcare scientist manager & naturalist. Reader & book collector. Walker in the woods and along the coast.
He/him.
Gregarious #introvert
Servant of 2 #Cats

Header: Pacific sunset, Drake Bay, Costa Rica, July 2025
Avatar: me birding from a hammock

Born at:324 ppm
Politics:Left Liberal Open Green
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@morgrugyn @privateshufti All photo IDs come with a massive disclaimer! 😁 However, I think they are probably "concretions" of pyrite, which have rusted under near-surface conditions. Concretions grow within the pores of muddy-sandy sediment during "diagnosis"which is the process of turning soft mud, sand etc into rock... If they are pyrite, they may smell a bit sulfurous, especially you whack one with a hammer...

#Geology query. Brother-in-law found these nodules on his property in Membury, East #devon Wondered if they are iron nodules? The lower one in both photos in particular is quite heavy. The local geology is "Cretaceous Upper Greensand capped by Chalk, which is often heavily broken up by flint and chert, or buried under Quaternary material".

There are also some fragments of what look like fossilised bone or antler.

#Rocks #Fossil

Blossom #portal
On the coast at Warsash, Hampshire

#Spring

Spending a few days in London & walked from Little Venice along the Regent's Canal to Islington. Very impressed with the repurposed gasometers in King's Cross. This whole area has been transformed since I was last here in the early 00s

#London #Architecture #UrbanLandscape

Lots of #insects emerging with the sunnier weather locally. Brimstone butterflies in the garden this morning, a few solitary #bees around. Need to keep a lookout for #beeflies
#Spring
Good morning

A view of the Lud's Church chasm in late winter sun

#Mosstodon #FernFriday #LichenSubscribe

Liverworts growing on the walls of Lud's Church, a chasm in the gritstone near Buxton, UK.
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