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Kirsty Brannan

@vanellus26.bsky.social

Biodiversity & Conservation Manager for The Crown Estate. Working with farmers for wildlife. Often attached to a collie. Own views.

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Tiny purple flowers of Wild clary hanging on into autumn within a footpath verge yesterday morning. #WildflowerHour

09.11.2025 20:45 — 👍 26    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Wonderful! Congratulations Julian! @penrhynbirder.bsky.social

18.10.2025 08:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The local hedgehogs were out and about yesterday evening.

24.08.2025 08:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One bonus of the hot weather this week has been the chance to see lots of Purple hairstreak butterflies active around the lower branches of oak trees, seeking cooler conditions and moisture.

11.07.2025 21:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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More Portland wildlife yesterday - Dingy skippers basking, Bloody-nosed beetle larvae roaming & Common lizards skittering.
Also grateful to the local people I met who graciously shared important historic, cultural and landscape contexts to particular sites.

15.05.2025 05:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Site visits on the Isle & Royal Manor of Portland today - lots of Small as well as Common blues on the wing, plus Painted lady, Small heath and Wall butterfly. @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

13.05.2025 20:55 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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New partnership between The Crown Estate and The Country Trust to provide farming and countryside experiences for more than 1,000 pupils The Crown Estate is an independent commercial business, created by Act of Parliament. We invest in and manage some of the UK’s most important assets, aiming to create significant value beyond financia...

Children from primary schools in areas of social and economic disadvantage will be offered a taste of life on a working farm and access to the countryside as part of a new partnership between The Crown Estate and The Country Trust. www.thecrownestate.co.uk/news/new-par...

09.05.2025 17:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Snap!

06.05.2025 17:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice find!

28.04.2025 16:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Face-off with a female Holly blue butterfly.
She won.
@bcwarwickshire.bsky.social @warwickshirewt.bsky.social

27.04.2025 10:45 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Lovely blog, Rob. Treasure those chirps.

23.04.2025 19:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Nice to find a reeling Grasshopper warbler this morning - my second of the week! Also passage Wheatear, and first Whitethroats and Lesser Whitethroat of the year.

17.04.2025 18:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Warning: 💩 query!
Lots of scat in an old hide in a small wetland, Northumberland. No unpleasant smell, seemed to be mostly feathers. Could it be a stoat’s favourite lunch spot? Advice appreciated. @mammalsociety.bsky.social @vincentwt.bsky.social @northwildlife.bsky.social

16.04.2025 18:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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For #WildflowerHour I present what I think is White Ramping-fumitory - probably naturalised after being inadvertently introduced with soil/gravel.

13.04.2025 20:55 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Tigers on the rampage!
Green alkanet being thoroughly mauled this morning by Scarlet tiger moth caterpillars.

13.04.2025 10:08 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A brown and beige butterfly sits on an ivy leaf, wings held upright and slightly apart.

A brown and beige butterfly sits on an ivy leaf, wings held upright and slightly apart.

Two singing Blackcaps and my first Speckled wood butterfly of the year on this morning’s dog walk. Even the butterfly looked slightly shocked by the sunshine.

06.04.2025 10:44 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0