#Introduction: Hello! this is the account for the Green Shores project, where we will be sharing news, volunteering opportunities and pictures about this saltmarsh conservation and restoration project, based in Scotland over three sites: the Eden and Tay Estuaries and in Dornoch Firth.
This project has been made possible thanks to funding from #NatureScot, St Andrews University and other partners. #Saltmarsh#Restoration#NatureSolutions#CarbonSequestration#Scotland
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
Craig Murray baffled that people are reluctant to support the Doune The Rabbit Hole festival, despite knowing he didn't pay the acts last time - the Bectu union have called for a boycott. Also, they are charging volunteers a deposit so beware, you may not get that back if you have signed up to do unpaid labour.
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✨
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.
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
*Me and some people I knew were sluffing off the uptight 80s, gettin baggy, gettin psychedelic, making love and art and falling in love with the world all over again in #SanFrancisco.
I can't tell you how much I love living here. Admittedly, my house is not one of these pretty ones around the bay, but I don't care about that at all either.
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.