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Three green metal picnic bench seats equally spaced around an open scrubby area surrounded by trees, with markers indicating where the next installations will be.
At the SSSI site I volunteer for, we're upgrading the picnic area, beginning with these benches. A fourth bench was added by the other volunteer group the next day. #volunteering #landscape #SSSI
The sands of time…
#scotland #uk #canada #orkney #sand #beach #plastic #recycle #1960s #1970s #retro #litter #howardands #polystyrene #wildlife #sssi #nestingbirds #storms #erosion
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The upper part of the photo shows blue sky filled with white fluffy clouds. Low down and to the right the sun is setting, with visible rays coming from it. The rest of the scene is a shallow valley with a boardwalk running from the foreground into the distance. There are trees on either side, and low green vegetation either side of the boardwalk.
I've shared this photo before, but it seems like a perfect candidate for today's #BlueSkyArtShow. Sunset over Oxford's Lye Valley with #altocumulus #clouds. A #SSSI, it's a 14,000-year-old internationally rare habitat, a tufa-forming valley-head alkaline spring fen. #Landscape #EastCoastKin
Swithland Reservoir aerial view, Leicestershire – built 1894–96 (opened 10 Sept 1896) to supply Leicester. The Great Central Railway crosses it on viaducts, splitting the water into two basins. Part of Buddon Wood & Swithland Reservoir SSSI #SwithlandReservoir #aerial #SSSI
A man in a light blue anorak, dark blue trousers and a cap is raking a pile of cut vegetation onto a drag sheet. There are many other piles of cut material around him. In the background an area with short vegetation. There are green bushes in the background to the right, and bare trees on teh background on the left.
🎵 We're raking in the rain,
Just raking in the rain,
What a glorious feelin'
I'm happy again 🎵
Despite heavy rain this morning we continued to rake cut material on part of our #SSSI onto drag sheets to build up the soft eroded peat banks of the Lye Brook.
#FenRestoration #OxfordshireFens #OX3
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From the Office of the Interim Environmental Protection Assessor for Wales - Important report on the potential future of protected sites in #Wales
#SSSI #nature #conservation #IEPAW #biodiversity #networks #monitoring #environment #SFS
www.gov.wales/protected-si...
At the right and in the foreground a black and white horse is harnessed to a low orange trailer. There are three men working round the trailer, one of them wearing an orange helmet. There's a large white bag being pulled into position. The floor is covered with cut reed, and there's a tree in the background.
A side view of an all brown horse pulling an orange trailer loaded with large white builders' bags with a man on top of them holding the reins. There is uncut dead reed bottom right and in the background.
Another photo of the horse from the first photo pulling a loaded orange trailer up a slight incline. There is uncut dead reed and some trees in the background.
Before our Friends group took over management of the Lye Valley, the City Council (as landowner) used horses to drag mechanically cut reed offsite. Now, most of the reed is cut by hand, and moved by volunteers! Date of photos uncertain but we think late 1990s early 2000s.
#OxfordshireFens #SSSI
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I love this book. I’m biased because it is a year long observation of the flora and fauna of the countryside around the parish where I live including an #sssi If you ❤️ vivid nature writing, this is perfect. 🦅🦆🦢🦉🪶🐦⬛🪹🪺
Symbolic Interaction, Vol.48 No4 is out - it's a special issue on "The (Re)Production and Navigation of Social Asymmetries‐in‐Action" co-edited by Catherine L. Tam @cathtam.bsky.social & Robin James Smith @robinjsmith.bsky.social congratulations, both co-editors and authors #sssi #emca #interaction
New Article on Early view: "Temporal and Spatial Organization in Collaborative Work by Nurses in an Emergency and Critical Care Center" by Hiroki Maeda, Yumi Nishimura #sssi #emca #sociology #healthcare doi.org/10.1002/symb...
Permission has been granted for #HyNet to install a cable under #TalacreBeach and #GronantDunes in #NorthWales. The #SSSI is home to rare protected #SandLizards, #NatterjackToads and #GreatCrestedNewts and is a vital breeding ground for #LittleTerns 🧵
"Forged in Heat: Craft, Body, and Knowledge in Fire Craft" Claudio E. Benzecry reviews "Fire Craft: Art, Body, and World among Glassblowers" By Erin O'Connor #sssi #bookreview #culture #sociology #glassblowing doi.org/10.1002/symb...
"The (Re)Production, Negotiation, and
Navigation of Social Asymmetries-in-Action:
An Introduction to the Special Issue" by Catherine L. Tam and Robin James Smith #sijournal #sociology #EMCA #SSSI #interactionism - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Common Field Grasshopper
Horsell Common, Surrey, England
#Nature #Heathland #SSSI #SPA #Wildlife #Insects #Photography #Grasshopper
The DPA have begun an ambitious land management program to improve #biodiversity and wildlife #habitat on our land at High House Waste.
The site is made up of open moorland, valley mire & Atlantic Oak woodland & is a #SSSI site in favourable condition.
dartmoorpreservation.co.uk/boosting-bio...
We in @friendlyevalley.bsky.social would like to thank all at @oxconservation.bsky.social vols for a great work session last weekend, raking cuttings up & lots of scrub work at the #LyeVally #SSSI south #fen section. This maintains this tiny site in private ownership's stunningly rich biodiversity.👏
excellent new article on rejection in academic publishing. in @sijournal.bsky.social #sssi #sociology
New on Early View: “From River to Review: An Autoethnographic Inquiry into the Negotiated Self in Academic Publishing” by Alvenio G. Mozol Jr. https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70025 #sssi #sociology #academic #publishing #rejection #autoethnography
We have just published Alvenio G. Mozol Jr.'s article…
In the foreground, and just to the right of centre a man in short sleeves wearing blue trousers and wellies is using a scythe. In the distance are a number of trees, while in the mid ground a gently sloping area of green, mostly short vegetation.
With four scythers on site this morning, we're making great progress with clearing the fen. We cut a block on the east side of the Valley, and a larger area on the west side (pictured below). Lots more work for our rakers though... 😀
#OxfordshireFens #Conservation #FenRestoration #OX3 #SSSI
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Protected peatlands in the UK are under threat by Miliband's illiterate mind once again!
#peatlands #farmlands #Greenbelt #NSI #SSSI #wind #solar #rooftopsfirst #netzero
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
To the left of the photo a young man in dark blue clothing is holding a rake with yellow prongs above a pile of cut reed and rush. In the centre a young woman in bright red bobble hat, dark top and bright green leggings also has a rake. Immediately behind the cut reed is a dark green drag sheet, and running from left to right is a brown boardwalk. Behind that is an area of green vegetation.
At the far left of the photo a young man in dark clothing with his sleeves rolled up is wearing dark gloves. In the centre of the photo a young woman in bright red bobble hat, dark top and yellow wellies is carrying a drag sheet stuffed with a roll of cut reed and rush. She's walking over an area of short green vegetation while in the background are carious mostly dark green shrubs and ivy plants.
Delighted to welcome two new volunteers to the Valley this week! They were quickly put to work raking the west fen and carrying the cut material to build up the eroded banks of the Lye Brook.
#OxfordshireFens #FenRestoration #OX3 #SSSI #LocalWildlifeSite @judywebb.bsky.social
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New on Early View: “Contrastive Self-Categorization as a Resource for Defending Cultural Stereotypes” by Nadja Tadic https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.70022 #sssi #sociology #categorization
We have just published Nadia Tadic’s article “Contrastive Self-Categorization as a Resource for Defending…
This Sunday at 2pm 👇😀 #westlothian #SSSI #Calderwood #naturewalk #Ramble&Chat #autumn
Rainham Marshes and Rutland Water show the richness of birdlife and the wonder it brings. These Ramsar sites SSSIs are vital for nature and for local communities.
#ProtectNature #SSSI
New on Early View: Seth Abrutyn (sethabrutyn.bsky.social) discusses “Our Emotions and Culture” by E. Doyle McCarthy http://doi.org/10.1002symb.70019 #sssi #sociology #emotion #culture #interactionism
We have just published on Early View Seth Abrutyn's review of "Our Emotions and Culture: How…
New on Early View: Baptiste Brossard reviews “From Skepticism to Competence” by Mariana Craciun http://doi.org/10/1002/symb.70018 #sssi #sociology #psychology #education
We have just published Baptiste Brossard's review of “"From Skepticism to Competence: How American Psychiatrists Learn…
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park planning approval quashed after @wildjustice.bsky.social wins judicial review
Blog: markavery.info/2025/09/06/w...
Failure of #PCNPA, #NRW, #NT,#RSPB and WT to protect wildlife.
Success for local campaigners, Wild Justice & wildlife.
#Wales #SSSI #law
Explore Bilston Burn SSSI in #Loanhead. A geological gem showcasing one of Scotland’s finest natural sections of Lower Carboniferous coal and limestone, plus ancient woodland flora. A unique fusion of Earth history and biodiversity in Midlothian. #SSSI sitelink.nature.scot/site/204
Discover the geological wonder of Hewan Bank, #Loanhead. A rare and nationally important exposure of glacial till from ~18,000 years ago! Layers of glacial deposits reveal fascinating insights into ice-sheet dynamics and melt-water processes. #SSSI sitelink.nature.scot/site/779
New on Early View: "Rethinking Face-to-Face Interaction: Lessons from Studies of “Autistic Sociality”" by Lars E. F. Johannessen doi.org/10.1002/symb... #sssi #sociology #interactionism #autism #sociality
