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  1. ⟦Heße et al.⟧ Rising competition among North Sea mammalian top predators: a multi-method perspective on trophic ecology nature.com/articles/s41598-026 🐬

  2. Went to the Riga Zoo in April, first time since... 2019, I think, wow, has been a long time. It had been early in the morning, so most of the animals were kinda sleepy: unskeep.com/video/ziNFvB0ftUNI

    #animals #seals #latvia #riga #rigazoo #video

  3. “I am a man upon the land,
    I am a selkie in the sea,
    And when I’m far and far frae land
    My hame is in the Sule Skerry”

    —The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)

    22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭

    🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)

    #Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals

  4. “I am a man upon the land,
    I am a selkie in the sea,
    And when I’m far and far frae land
    My hame is in the Sule Skerry”

    —The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)

    22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭

    🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)

    #Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals

  5. “I am a man upon the land,
    I am a selkie in the sea,
    And when I’m far and far frae land
    My hame is in the Sule Skerry”

    —The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)

    22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭

    🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)

    #Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals

  6. “I am a man upon the land,
    I am a selkie in the sea,
    And when I’m far and far frae land
    My hame is in the Sule Skerry”

    —The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)

    22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭

    🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)

    #Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals

  7. “I am a man upon the land,
    I am a selkie in the sea,
    And when I’m far and far frae land
    My hame is in the Sule Skerry”

    —The Great Selkie of Sule Skerry (traditional)

    22 March is #InternationalSealDay 🦭

    🎨: Vernon Hill, “The Great Sealchie of Sule Skerrie”, in Ballads Weird & Wonderful (1912)

    #Scottish #literature #folksong #folklore #selkie #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #seal #seals

  8. “Robin Robertson delves into Scottish folklore to invoke the myth of the selkie – seal-creatures who can take on human form by shedding their skins”

    —Robin Robertson reads “At Roane Head”

    youtube.com/watch?v=hz2bto1ZVH0

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay

  9. “Robin Robertson delves into Scottish folklore to invoke the myth of the selkie – seal-creatures who can take on human form by shedding their skins”

    —Robin Robertson reads “At Roane Head”

    youtube.com/watch?v=hz2bto1ZVH0

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay

  10. “Robin Robertson delves into Scottish folklore to invoke the myth of the selkie – seal-creatures who can take on human form by shedding their skins”

    —Robin Robertson reads “At Roane Head”

    youtube.com/watch?v=hz2bto1ZVH0

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay

  11. “Robin Robertson delves into Scottish folklore to invoke the myth of the selkie – seal-creatures who can take on human form by shedding their skins”

    —Robin Robertson reads “At Roane Head”

    youtube.com/watch?v=hz2bto1ZVH0

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay

  12. “Robin Robertson delves into Scottish folklore to invoke the myth of the selkie – seal-creatures who can take on human form by shedding their skins”

    —Robin Robertson reads “At Roane Head”

    youtube.com/watch?v=hz2bto1ZVH0

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay

  13. You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
    by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
    the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…

    —Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
    in the London Review of Books, 14 August 2008

    Today, 22 March, is International Seal Day 🦭

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n16/ro

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay

  14. You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
    by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
    the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…

    —Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
    in the London Review of Books, 14 August 2008

    Today, 22 March, is International Seal Day 🦭

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n16/ro

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay

  15. You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
    by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
    the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…

    —Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
    in the London Review of Books, 14 August 2008

    Today, 22 March, is International Seal Day 🦭

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n16/ro

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay

  16. You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
    by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
    the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…

    —Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
    in the London Review of Books, 14 August 2008

    Today, 22 March, is International Seal Day 🦭

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n16/ro

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay

  17. You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
    by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
    the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…

    —Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
    in the London Review of Books, 14 August 2008

    Today, 22 March, is International Seal Day 🦭

    lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n16/ro

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay

  18. Tuesday, December 23, 2025

    Ukrainian drones reportedly strike Russia's Stavrolen petrochemical plant -- A dark Christmas looms in Odesa Oblast as Russia hammers energy facilities, bridges, ports -- Ukrainian partisans set ablaze 2 Russian Su-30 fighter jets in Lipetsk Oblast -- From peace talks with Russia to elections in Ukraine, here's what our journalists expect to cover in 2026 ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

  19. Tuesday, December 23, 2025

    Ukrainian drones reportedly strike Russia's Stavrolen petrochemical plant -- A dark Christmas looms in Odesa Oblast as Russia hammers energy facilities, bridges, ports -- Ukrainian partisans set ablaze 2 Russian Su-30 fighter jets in Lipetsk Oblast -- From peace talks with Russia to elections in Ukraine, here's what our journalists expect to cover in 2026 ... and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025