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everybodylovesij.bsky.social
Is Machair "British culture"? Fuck off. Just fucking say English. Like every single racist now is too shite scared to say what they mean outright
October 10, 2026 at 10:51 PM
lewisbirdcal.bsky.social
Ruff will be arriving soon. Often seen together with golden plover on the machair. A good place to see one is Loch Stiapabhat.
October 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
monsieur8312024.bsky.social
Machair

#PoseTonCiel
#Photography #stunday #autumn
October 7, 2026 at 4:39 PM
irishwildlifetrust.bsky.social
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Excellent article by @ellamcsweeney.bsky.social in run-up to #Budget2027

Nature restoration is a low-cost way to tackle problems the State is paying to fix. Healthy wetlands, rivers & coastal habitats can help buffer flooding, drought & storms.
@simonharrisireland.bsky.social
Ireland is the last stand for rare coastal machair habitats in the EU – but it’s failing
Funding nature restoration looks like an easy line to leave blank in the budget. That would be an expensive mistake
www.irishtimes.com
October 5, 2026 at 4:19 PM
homebirdnow.bsky.social
Ireland is the last stand for rare coastal machair habitats in the EU – but it’s failing

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...
Ireland is the last stand for rare coastal machair habitats in the EU – but it’s failing
Funding nature restoration looks like an easy line to leave blank in the budget. That would be an expensive mistake
www.irishtimes.com
October 4, 2026 at 11:50 AM
groomb.bsky.social
A Glimpse of Ben More from the Machair, Iona, painting by Frances Macdonald, Scottish artist.
October 4, 2026 at 9:39 AM
daylightwanderer.bsky.social
The machair lands of the #OuterHebrides is where the annual explosion of flora and fauna occurs. Miraculous lands that bloom with shades of white, yellow and pink throughout the summer period. See it for yourself #summer2027 #daylightwanderertours daylightwanderer.com #isleoflewis
October 3, 2026 at 4:38 PM
brianedoherty.bsky.social
Ireland is the last stand for rare coastal machair habitats in the EU – but it’s failing

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...
Ireland is the last stand for rare coastal machair habitats in the EU – but it’s failing
Funding nature restoration looks like an easy line to leave blank in the budget. That would be an expensive mistake
www.irishtimes.com
October 3, 2026 at 1:34 PM
irishtimes.com
Ireland is the last stand for rare coastal machair habitats in the EU – but it’s failing
Ireland is the last stand for rare coastal machair habitats in the EU – but it’s failing
Funding nature restoration looks like an easy line to leave blank in the budget. That would be an expensive mistake
www.irishtimes.com
October 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM
catherinecoxon.bsky.social
Ireland is the last stand for rare coastal machair habitats in the EU – but it’s failing

www.irishtimes.com/life-style/2...
Ireland is the last stand for rare coastal machair habitats in the EU – but it’s failing
Funding nature restoration looks like an easy line to leave blank in the budget. That would be an expensive mistake
www.irishtimes.com
October 3, 2026 at 7:50 AM
irishtimes.com
Ireland is the last stand for rare coastal machair habitats in the EU – but it’s failing
Funding nature restoration looks like an easy line to leave blank in the budget. That would be an expensive mistake
www.irishtimes.com
October 3, 2026 at 6:00 AM
azjackson.bsky.social
An #Otwituary for Scottish crime novelist #PeterMay

The isles are full of bodies,
weighted down in dark lochans
or buried under lush machair.
The heart is a blackhouse, and
there is blood to be written of.
September 28, 2026 at 9:01 PM
azjackson.bsky.social
An #Otwituary for Scottish crime novelist #PeterMay

The isles are full of bodies,
weighted down in dark lochans
or buried under lush machair.
The heart is a blackhouse, and
there is blood to be written of.
September 28, 2026 at 9:00 PM
ladyjane.bsky.social
For those who don't have FB - screenshots of her lovely tribute.
It's Peter May's wife, Janice. I have to convey the most awful news. Peter has died. I have no words to express the loss, so l enclose here the statement from his long term publisher and dear friend, Jon Riley, who pays tribute: riverrun, an imprint of the John Murray Group, has announced the sad news of the death of the Sunday Times bestselling Scottish crime writer Peter May, on Friday night at his holiday home in the south of France. Peter May was one of the most popular, and loved writers of crime fiction of his generation, and his books have sold around 15 million copies around the world. The novel which he had announced would be his last, Island of the Dead, is to be published in January 2027. May began his career as a journalist in Scotland, winning Young Journalist of the Year aged twenty-one, and published his first novel, The Reporter in 1976, at the age of twenty-six. After it was adapted as a BBC drama series, he quit journalism for television, and in the fifteen years that followed he became a successful scriptwriter and producer on two seminal series, Take the High Road and the Gaelic-language, Isle of Lewis-set Machair. It was while working on location on Machair, that his love for the Hebrides, which informed and influenced so much of his writing formed. 11:37 B •ll 5G Peter May - author • • • •• Follow 4h • 6 He returned to fiction with a series of China-set thrillers, which was followed by the French-set Enzo Files, both of which featured characters who reflected his growing interest in forensic science. However, it was the publication of the Lewis-set thriller The Blackhouse in 2011, that brought international fame, and bestselling success, and resulted in The Lewis Trilogy. He published a bestseller almost every year between The Blackhouse and his last book, The Black Loch in 2024. His writing will always be associated with the Isle of Lewis, and the Hebrides. Peter published twenty-six books with Quercus, and his workwas hugely successful in his adopted homeland of France, where his work garlanded many prestigious literary awards. Peter was a talented musician, and in 2025 he released a CD; Towards the Light, which reflected in song many of his interests as a novelist. Although he had announced his retirement, which he was looking forward to sharing with his beloved wife, the writer Janice Hally, May found there was one more novel in him, and he delivered Island of the Dead in July this year. He was preparing for a farewell tour of Scotland and Lewis to coincide with publication in January 2027. Peter May was not only one of the best writers of crime fiction we had, but he inspired enormous affection in his readers and in those lucky enough to work with him. His kindness, generosity and largeness of spirit, loyalty, engagement with life, and the world, made him a much-loved,as well as much- admired figure. He is irreplaceable.
September 28, 2026 at 3:43 PM
neildrysdale.bsky.social
I’m very sad about the death of best-selling author Peter May at 74. I grew friendly with him in recent 20 years and he was a true lad o’ pairts. His books were excellent and he also co-created Gaelic soap “Machair”, championed libraries and loathed Brexit! www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle...
Interview: Author Peter May on making first-ever Gaelic soap opera, Machair, while dealing with 'most appalling weather imaginable' in Western Isles
The writer will be in Inverness and Stornoway next month, but has a stark warning about the failure to tackle climate change.
www.pressandjournal.co.uk
September 28, 2026 at 2:10 PM
madams08.bsky.social
South Uist…it’s a hell of a hike (long way) but you’ll see sea eagles on an empty beach and hundred of birds on the Machair. Also go to St Abbs Head for the geology.
September 28, 2026 at 7:11 AM
alecfinlay.bsky.social
Machair hen
September 25, 2026 at 6:36 AM
danielstunell.bsky.social
Western Isles - possibly Berneray* - some years ago. Some of the most amazing beaches anywhere, frequently backed, as here, by the wildflowers of the machair. #scotland #TidesOutTuesday

#sea #landscape #scape #photography #eck

*my photo filing is poor.
A riot of yellow flowers in the foreground, with sea and some small rounded islets behind. Under a blue / cirrus clouded sky.
September 22, 2026 at 4:54 PM
johnmuirtrust.bsky.social
Place in Focus: Sandwood 🌊

From its vast golden sands and rugged sea cliffs to wild moorland, machair and peatlands, Sandwood is a landscape shaped by nature and home to an incredible variety of wildlife. 🐝🌿

More on Sandwood: johnmuirtrust.org/about-us/whe...
September 22, 2026 at 2:59 PM
barrabirder.bsky.social
The Buff-breasted Sand was still trotting about on the machair at Allasdale this afternoon, though looking slightly dishevelled in the persistent driving rain. Seems one of the local Lapwings has taken a dislike to it and repeatedly tried to chase it off. #birdingscotland
September 18, 2026 at 5:10 PM
tireebirder.bsky.social
12 Great Yellow Bumblebees recorded in 1 hour on the machair at Hough, Tiree on Sunday (13th) was the rather late peak count of the year here. Almost all were males (some very bleached) in a mixed summer for them due to prolonged wet spells after a promising start @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social
September 17, 2026 at 11:35 AM
paulglover.bsky.social
Today's poem was written in a bar on Mull after finding a whale skeleton on the same day of Machair Bay paulglover.uk/2026/09/17/p...
Post 187 … Upon Finding the Skeleton of a Whale on an Islay Beach
While on Islay we walked on Machair Bay’s remote beach. It was supposed to be a gentle walk after previous days excursions, but the showery wind blew hard at us. The strand was a moving carpe…
paulglover.uk
September 17, 2026 at 7:09 AM
aeonmach.bsky.social
Intinneach, a bheil am facal ‘magh’ ceangailte ri ‘machair’?
(‘cognate’ sa Bheurla - with machair just being a more specific coastal land plain?)

Tha tòrr ainmean-àite ann an Èirinn le ‘magher…’ ach tha e bho ’machair’!
September 16, 2026 at 9:25 AM
barrabirder.bsky.social
After years of searching, trudging over the machair, beaches and headlands, delighted to find a mobile and flighty Buff-breasted Sandpiper on Vatersay this morning; the first record for the island and my first self-found too. Well worth getting rained on for! #birdingscotland
September 15, 2026 at 5:40 PM
kmishkin.bsky.social
I don’t know yet what a machair is, but I barked at the seals today. (I’ll look it up.)
capecodfairytales.bsky.social Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · Sep 7
#Poetry #Painting #Scotland

Every day should contain a pleasure
as simple as walking on the machair
or singing to the seals.

- Thomas A Clark

🎨 Mae MacPherson
September 8, 2026 at 9:20 PM