Emma Brand

A snowy scene from a wildlife hide window. Blue sky with white fluffy clouds, over a largely white scene of snow with pale green and ornage/brown vegetation poking through.

A snowy bird feed scene. A blue and pink sky, with whispy clouds. White snow on top of frozen water. Swans and ducks feeding in a line on the snow and ice.

Come back winter...scenes on the Ouse Washes at WWT Welney early last week ❄🦢🦆

Wall butterfly has made a bit of a comeback in Norfolk over the last couple of years. If you do see one please do record to help us to continue to track its fortunes. butterfly-conservation.org/butterflies/...

🦋 Speckled Wood Butterfly 🥰

📍 Thetford Forest

My first for 2025.

A frosty morning along the River Great Ouse, sunshine through the clouds above.

Aback dog with blue harness and collar sitting in front of frosty fields with plae grey patchy cloud sky above.

Pink-footed geese standing and feeding on a frosty, frozen field, with more flying overhead.

A reed covered in hoar frost with the sun visible through the mist.

❄ Winter Walks ❄

Frosty, fresh walks are the best 👌 Sometimes sunny, sometimes atmospheric 😊🐶

Help ensure that nature is at the heart of the Government's planning reforms I've written to my MP to demand that the UK Government adopts a nature-friendly approach to planning and development. Will you take action too?

We are in the midst of a nature crisis, but we have a big opportunity for change here.

Help us make that clear to those in power, and ask your MP to back nature-friendly planning now: action.rspb.org.uk/page/159517/...

Waterfowl are disappearing from #Doñana 🦆

A new study shows a decline in duck populations due to lost flooded areas in this crucial wetland. Human activity and climate change are driving factors.

Doñana’s health impacts migratory #birds across all of Europe.
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A photo of Wisdom, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross, looking at an egg at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge at the northwestern edge of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Headline reads: "World’s Oldest Known Wild Bird Lays an Egg at 74." Photo credit: Dan Rapp/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service via Associated Press.

The world’s oldest known wild bird, a 74-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom, is expected to welcome another baby chick in the coming months, astonishing scientists who have been tracking her since the Eisenhower administration. nyti.ms/4f7VadN

I have been illustrating insects which rely on nettles for food & shelter. This is just a tiny selection of those species. Having a nettle patch in the corner of your garden is wonderful habitat for a whole host of creatures! #wildlifehabitat #urbannature #wildgarden

A single black dog, with with blue harness and collar, sitting facing towards the camera on a sandy beach. The sea on the horizon and a mostly bright blue sky with a few thin cloud lines.

The calm before the storm...Good girl Inka 🐾🖤

🦢 Fen flightpath 🦢

Last night the cloud lifted to reveal an inky-black sky full of stars as whooper swans flew over the garden on their way to nearby wetlands.

📣 Winter evening soundtrack

#WhooperSwans #WhoopWhoop #Winter #FenNightSky

A black dog with a blue harness sitting on a grassy Bank looking directly at the camera. A river to the right, the Hundred Foot Drain, with Welmore Sluice gates in the middle of the photo. A cloudy, grey sky above.

Welmore Sluice, flood waters flowing out the northern end of the Ouse Washes. Inka says can we not walk to 'work' next time.

A sunrise scene in the flat landscape of the Fens. The sun is centre of photo just rising above the horizon. A bare-branched tree to the left of the sun. A road and field below the horizon and blue sky with a few wispy clouds above.

A fantastic Fenland sunrise.

#winter