Anyone fancy a baby bunny ?
A total absence of resident foxes this year has allowed the local bunny population to expand.
Always great to see these tiny beasties.
Anwoth Old Kirk, built in 1626 on the site of an earlier church and in use until 1826. Samuel Rutherford was minister here from 1627 to 1636. It was an iconic location, used in the cult folk-horror film Wicker Man. #Scotland#History#Galloway#blackandwhitephotography
Mouse-ear hawkweed and surrounding vegetation showing the effects of drought. We’ve had barely any rain for weeks in #Scotland and lots of strong sunshine. Where the soils are thin over rock, as here, the grass has turned brown. #drought#wildflowers#nature
Sunrise over the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.
The Bay of Islands is an enclave encompassing more than 140 subtropical islands next to the country's North Island. It’s known for its undeveloped beaches, fishing, whale watching and swimming with dolphins
Our beautiful capital city, Edinburgh.
Nearly froze up on Carlton Hill to get this fabulous sunset lighting up part of the great castle.
The hill just seems to catch the wind and it's usually from the north 🥶
The Forth Bridge is a cantilever railway bridge across the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland, 9 miles (14 kilometres) west of central Edinburgh. Completed in 1890, it is considered a symbol of Scotland (having been voted Scotland's greatest man-made wonder in 2016), and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was designed by English engineers Sir John Fowler and Sir Benjamin Baker. It is sometimes referred to as the Forth Rail Bridge (to distinguish it from the adjacent Forth Road Bridge), although this has never been its official name.
Construction of the bridge began in 1882 and it was opened on 4 March 1890 by the Duke of Rothesay, the future Edward VII. The bridge carries the Edinburgh–Aberdeen line across the Forth between the villages of South Queensferry and North Queensferry and has a total length of 8,094 feet (2,467 m). When it opened it had the longest single cantilever bridge span in the world, until 1919 when the Quebec Bridge in Canada was completed. It continues to be the world's second-longest single cantilever span, with a span of 1,709 feet (521 m).
NB: I can't speak for all Scots here (says who?) but I've never called it "The Forth Bridge". To me it has always been the "Forth RAIL Bridge", no doubt a reaction to the "Forth ROAD Bridge" sitting next to it.
The fact that the areas' third and newest bridge isn't called a Forth anything Bridge but instead is the "Queensferry Crossing" makes my thematic heart sad.
Fun Fact: before the application of rust-proof paint the Forth Rail Bridge used to be in a constant state of being painted, the engineers working along from end to end and starting over due to the fact corrosion would be eating through the paint at the starting point by the time they finished at the other. Sisyphus would have said "Sod this, I'm off".
Attribution: The photo I've shamelessly used and abused is by an incredibly talented lady called Marie Gardiner. @mariegardiner.
Hallo! 👋 I curate a playlist called #AtlanticVoices over on @Spotify@mstdn.social Click the link below or just search Atlantic Voices on your own streaming platform. Listen as a whole musical episode or shuffle / dip in and out as you please. If you 💗 the artists you hear on this list, follow, buy their music and go see them at a gig✨
Two butterflies, rare in Scotland, that I was delighted to encounter on my trip around the northeast: pearl-bordered fritillary feeding on bitter vetch and small blue on coastal kidney vetch. #Scotland#nature#wildlife#butterfly
#introduction hi everyone, i'm tao! i'm a software engineer based in #edinburgh, #scotland. i like to build things that are good for the world; right now that means tooling for #trustandsafety.
i’ve been around the fediverse before; back then i worked on @fediversespace, a visualization of the fediverse. excited to see how things are going these days!
i'm into privacy, security, and philosophy, and i'm just happy to be here!!
Nicola Sturgeon: Former first minister arrested in SNP finances inquiry (www.bbc.com)
Police Scotland said a 52-year-old woman was arrested in Glasgow on Sunday.