The Norman apse of St. Peter’s Chapel at Bamburgh Castle in Northumberland. The chapel once held the relics of King (later Saint) Oswald. 📸 My own. #WallsOnWednesday #BamburghCastle #Northumberland

The Fiskerton Log Boat which was discovered during excavations on the banks of the River Witham near Fiskerton in Lincolnshire. The oak boat dates to the Iron Age, and is now on display at Lincoln Museum. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #Prehistory #Fiskerton #LincolnMuseum

✨Celebrating the Year of the Fire Horse✨ This stunning relief is a bit of mystery in terms of provenance, but the sense of movement makes it a show-stopper. The heroic nude is usually identified as Castor and he leads a gorgeous horse while a dog follows behind.

Roman parade helmet showing a winged cupid riding a chariot. The brass helmet was found at Trimontium Roman Fort, near Newstead in the Scottish Borders. Now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanScotland

#ReliefWednesday with the funerary relief of freedmen Publius Licinius Philonicus and Publius Licinius Demetrius. British Museum, 1st C. BC. Left - rods and axes used in the ceremony of freeing a slave. Pediment - tools of a smith or moneyer Right - the tools of a carpenter. #AncientBlueSky🏺

Today is apparently 'Drink Wine Day'! So here’s a toast with a 1,700-year-old vintage! 🍷 A Roman bottle of wine found in a grave in Speyer, dating to the 4th century AD. Proof that wine lovers have always been a timeless bunch! 📷 museum.speyer.de/ausstellunge...

No light quite like that produced against gathering clouds after a day of sunshine. The pinky-hues drenching the road paving and walls of Pompeii are magical.

Took pics of flowering plants in the garden today. It's a no-watering-required garden I created to have multiple plants flowering all year round💜 (Welcome to ask me names, some I remember off top of my head, others you may need to search internet... 😊)

Morning small pinyin: yuèjì, 月季. Known commonly as the Chinese #rose, or Bengal rose from my #Philly neighbors #garden last summer.🌦️ #RedWed #BloomScroll #NaturePhotography #EastCoastKin #Macro

'Objekte die mit "M" beginnen oder so aussehen... ' #FotoVorschlag Marienkäfer 🐞 Ladybug #eastcoastkin #macromonday #animalarttuesday #insectthursday #redwed #flyday

I knew I had a photo of Roberto, our Robin redbreast, to fit Sheena’s @sheena-mck.bsky.social #WeekFforFramed theme for the #AlphabetChallenge Here he is cheekily framed in the front porch doorway as he decided he had waited long enough for breakfast. #ColorADay #RedWed #ForJanet #EastCoastKin

Morning #birds

Costa's hummingbird. #birds #birdphotography #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #photography #BirdsSeenin2026 #MySonoranDesertHome

🪶A stunning portait of a Costa's Hummingbird by Mick Thompson. These gem-like birds live in the fast lane w/ a resting ❤️ rate of 500-900 beats per min & 200-300 breaths per min. To get a sense of how fast 500 beats or 300 breaths per min is, play w/ this online metronome: www.onlinemetronome.app

Headed home from #iceland today. This trip was everything I’d hoped and more. Made amazing memories and took some of the best pictures of my life. Here’s some images of the aurora. #travel

Hibiscus Harlequin Bug 'Tectocoris diophthalmus' from Darwin #Australia www.inaturalist.org/observations... #wildoz

Daphne season came around again #bloomscrolling #pnw #flowers

Pink peonies are so joyful #bloomscrolling #peonies

Epiblema grandiflorum - Babe-in-a-cradle One of Western Australia's endemic orchids which flowers between November and January, some of our warmer months. It grows in swampy areas, which have usually dried by the time the orchid flowers. #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist

@robcrank68.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #CollectingFood Two are reposts, but three are truly in the wild... Kookaburra, rainbow bee-eater, red-tailed black cockatoo, magpie #photography #birds #nature #wildlife #eating #gift #EastCoastKin

Crimson rosella in flowering gum tree. #birds #auswildlife

Time management tips from the birds: why not combine breakfast and your morning shower?

Back to #birds of Australia 🇦🇺

Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol

This is what you call 'Going full ScoMo' #auspol #AUKUS

Not that it was ever in doubt, but the gas companies' jimmies are very rustled, so here you go: thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

I'm going away for a few days so of course this is when the Corymbia decides to start flowering. #birds

The second #kakapo chick of the #kakapo2026 breeding season hatched this morning: Hine Taumai-A1-2026 on Ako's nest on Te Kākahu. We transferred the egg from Anchor two nights ago. This is Ako's first-ever chick, which is just a few hours old in this video. #conservation #birds #parrots

#BirdOfTheDay #CollectingFood

I was birdwatching at my local wetlands beside a busy road yesterday and when I turned around at the end of a path, this gorgeous White-faced Heron was resting on a rock behind me. It was completely unbothered by my presence. There is nature even in cities. #photography #AustralianBirds

Found four different bird species in the tree in my backyard at the same time. Tawny frogmouths, rainbow lorikeets, a crested pigeon and some noisy miners. I don't think the tawnys liked all the noisy, but was so cool to see. #bird #australianwildlife #australianbirds #backyardanimals

Juvenile Brush Turkey (Alectura lathami) Taken with an OM-1 Mk II / M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm F4.0 IS PRO Noise reduction with RawForge. Image post processing done in Darktable. #darktable #rawforge #australianBirds #bird #birds

Morning, Melbourne! ☔️ 🥶 ☔️ The turf war continues. #wildoz #ozbirds #birds 🦉📷 #sulphurcrestedcockatoo #australianhobby #birdsinflight

Two of the many calls of a Pale-headed Rosella aka Moreton Bay Rosella, Blue-cheeked Rosella, or White-cheeked Rosella It does focus in a second or two... (Platycercus adscitus) #birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #parrots #WildOz

Pacific Bazas (aka Crested Hawks) are slender med-sized hawks found in E and N Australia, Indonesia, PNG, Timor & Solomon Is., in forests and savannahs. They eat fruits (!) insects, tree frogs, small lizards and snakes & birds. This one, in Sydney Park, is quite young. #birds #WildOz #birdwatching

So many blooms for such a tiny bird. Brown Honeyeater (Lichmera indistincta) #birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #australianbirds #WildOz #honeyeater

My second Sanderling 'Calidris alba' but first #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Australia #wildoz #inaturalist www.inaturalist.org/observations...

#birdsseenin2026 masses of banded stilts and Australian shelduck on #Rottnest island: it’s not just quokka #birds #wildoz

If you’re in south-eastern Australia, from the Snowy Mountains of NSW to Victoria’s alpine foothills and between, consider becoming a “Bogong Buddy” and help track their migration. #mothsmatter #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #citizenscience #communityscience aboutregional.com.au/10000-bogong...

#ausinverts #wildoz

The good part of driving a quiet EV is turning into your driveway & the local magpie ignores you & continues digging in the lawn for tasty snacks: #photography #phone #nativebird

#CollectingFood for #BirdOfTheDay Thanks Rob

Possum o’clock.

Another view of this beautiful Black Necked Stork from last week. Hot here today. Might hit the beach this afternoon.

Kingfisher of the Day: Red-breasted Paradise-Kingfisher 📷 Anon, Charley Hesse

🖼️ John Derian

Wyrdlings! The platform that was once twitter faces the Wyrd’s final curtain this week and so we give you: “Downfalls, Demises & It's All Over" as this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic. And while the Mothers of Wyrd quit * that * place, we'll still be here on Bluesky & over on Instagram every week!

The Queen of Hammer, Barbara Shelley, was born on this day in 1932. Here’s her magnificent transformation in Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), her personal favourite and most iconic Hammer role. 🖤

Giant rabbits terrorise a stellar cast who needed the money. No rabbits were hurt while making this movie, just the actors reputations. Fierce furry fun. 1972. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam