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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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.
#Mosstodon

1st brimstone butterfly of the year just now, a male flying strongly in the sun

#insects #Spring

In the cemetery today:

Air still chill despite the sun
Dunnock & Robin singing
A collared dove launches wings whistling into the air
First blossoms of cherry, petals creased like crumpled bedclothes
Crocuses battered by the recent rains

#NatureNotes #Blossom

Woken by blackbird song
#birds #birdsong #Spring

Drove out to J's thatched cottage near Fordingbridge.
Forest very wet after weeks of rain, ponds overflowing onto roads, winter trees reflected in standing water, fords running high.

A solitary bat flying in the late afternoon gloom.

Evening birdsong building as Spring approaches.

A surprise on leaving: clear skies, stars glittering, Orion gazing down.

#NatureNotes #NewForest #Winter