Michael Walker

A pale blue Chalkhill Blue butterfly perched on a plant stem

Yes, definitely a Chalkhill Blue Emma. There were lots flying over the ramparts of Wareham Camp in Norfolk a couple of weeks ago when I was there.

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Trees in an old wood with wooden bat boxes amongst white and blue flowers.

In an ancient woodland surrounded by greater stitchwort, wood anemone and bluebell, could there a more beautiful bat box check this morning.

26.04.2025 10:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A beautifully delicate white flower with a yellow centre full of pollen.

The first Meadow Saxifrage in flower in my mini-meadow with lots more ready to open in the next few days.

17.04.2025 16:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Country diary: Going house to house looking for a dormouse | Alexandra Pearce-Broomhead Bodmin, Cornwall: These red-listed mice are still sleeping off the last of winter. As we check for activity, we enter a world of velveteen moss rugs and squatting shrews

Looking forward to being in the Nottinghamshire dormouse woods this weekend for our first box checks of year.

17.04.2025 10:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sometimes, nature can produce moments that transport you away from everything that's wrong with the world. This was one such moment (actually about 45 minutes or more for us, less than a minute for you). Sanderling and Turnstone feed on the incoming tide at Beadnell.

16.03.2025 18:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

They are mapped as Coneyford Plantation on a 1906 OS map. I think that strong winds have played a part in shaping them.

13.01.2025 21:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ice formed into treelike shapes on a car roof following a very heavy frost.

This is either a frozen woodland seen from above, or the roof of my car this morning.

10.01.2025 15:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I love Tunnicliffe's work and it was his paintings which first sparked my interest in birds. I stayed with a group of friends at Shorelands, his Anglesea home in the early 1980s, only a few years after his death. I'm sure that this is the hare painting that was on the wall of the sitting room.

09.12.2024 13:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The BBC radio version is unsurpassed!

20.11.2024 17:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Beech and oak trees with twisted trunks and branches.

Beech and oak trees with twisted trunks and branches.

A line of oak and beech trees seen from the Saltmarsh.

Beech and oak trees with twisted trunks and branches.

I don't think that I've ever seen beech trees with such twisted trunks and branches as these on the edge of Stiffkey Marsh in Norfolk.

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I'd forgotten that his 'History of British Mammals' was a Poyser book. It's another that is often off the shelf.

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45 seconds of the Brent goose chorus with occasional wigeon harmonies. Perfect nature sounds from RSPB Frampton Marsh in Lincolnshire today

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I have a few, but the one I refer to most is Susan Swift's book on long-eared bats.

18.11.2024 16:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It's not only bats that use bat boxes. These honey bees seem to like this one....a lot!

16.11.2024 17:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A day spent at the Sherwood Centre Parcs checking bat boxes. We always find good numbers of noctule and Leisler's bat but Natterer's bat is a rarer find for us.

16.11.2024 17:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excellent!! Well done National Trust

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The southern edge of Ploughman Wood, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire photographed in November 2025.

My first Bluesky post. This is the southern edge of Ploughman Wood, and ancient woodland in Nottinghamshire. This line of oaks was probably planted around 1880 when the last piece was cut out of the the wood which is now only a quarter of what it was when mapped in 1609

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