@markavery.bsky.social
Conservationist, campaigner, author, columnist, blogger, grandpa
Our future is wild - www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/appeal
18.11.2025 20:32 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Sunday book review: Spiders and Harvestmen of Yorkshire by @ecology-digest.bsky.social
Publisher: Pisces
Review: markavery.info/2025/11/16/s...
@ynuorg.bsky.social @britishspiders.bsky.social @yorkshiredales.org.uk @northyorkmoors.org.uk @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @wildsheffield.bsky.social
Ian - many thanks!
Nice shelves!
You can tell me what you think - the reader is the judge.
16.11.2025 12:53 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Looking forward to reading this. #naturewriting
16.11.2025 12:51 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Sunday book review: Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone by Robert Keiter.
Publisher: uchicagopress.bsky.social
Review: markavery.info/2025/11/16/s...
#yellowstone #grizzly #wolf #fire #elk #grazing #ecosystemapproach
I believe so...
14.11.2025 11:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Gary - thanks for this. Under new management now. A lot of Pheasants around, I noticed...
14.11.2025 11:12 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Ted Green
Windsor Great Park Special Area of Conservation
Yesterday I had the pleasure of looking around Windsor Great Park with the amazing Ted Green.
Ancient trees & very rich in fungi and invertebrates. A fascinating visit of one of our most important SACs. Appropriately (?) we had mushroom pizza in the Savill Garden restaurant for lunch.
Nick MacKinnon's latest take-down of the case for a massive windfarm on deep peat on Walshaw Moor markavery.info/2025/11/14/g...
Would you buy a used windfarm from this lot? Let alone let them build a new one?
#abject #egregious #terrible #lackingfullcompetenece
Three moths this morning: a Turnip (not shown, commonest moth here at this time of year); Dark Chestnut (left, 2nd for garden), December (right, nfy)
09.11.2025 10:44 — 👍 26 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Am making daily visits to the Post Office to post books to people.
09.11.2025 10:00 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Sunday book review: The Breath of the Gods by Simon Winchester
Review: markavery.info/2025/11/09/s...
Publisher: @williamcollins.bsky.social
'A very pleasant read'
#wind #storm #doldrums #gales #Beaufort #Coreolis #dustbowl
Sunday book review: The Birds of Bedfordshire by Tony Ploszajski
Review: markavery.info/2025/11/09/s...
Publisher: Beds Nat Hist Soc
'Excellent'
The last Northants avifauna is 130 years out of date...
#bedfordshire #birds @wildlifebcn.org #Sandy #TheLodge @rspb.bsky.social @steveblain.bsky.social
David Lindo @theurbanbirder.bsky.social speaking in #raunds #northants 20 November (tickets £12 by 12 November).
50th anniversary of Mid-Nene RSPB Local Group.
@rspbengland.bsky.social #northantsbirds @wildlifebcn.org @northantstelegraph.bsky.social #urban #birder
Absolutely loved seeing these two 1st winter Caspian Gulls together tonight on the North. For all the cachinnans I've seen here over the last 30 years, I don't often see Caspo side-by-side, so this was a real Larid treat.
Love it!
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#NorfolkBirding
#cleybirds
1/2
A few more of the brilliant Cosmopterix pulchrimella that showed up at CMO HQ for the first time ever last night. Top drawer micro 😎
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#cleymothobs
#norfolkmoths
#teammoth
Up here in Galloway, gathering them (before the hedge-strimmers get in!) is an annual activity. The gin is quietly stewing.
06.11.2025 15:21 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Oh I do love a myth buster!
05.11.2025 19:06 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0"This is not opposition to Conservative policy. This is enthusiastic continuation under a different logo. The political theatre of party conflict obscures a deeper continuity: both major parties are committed to what can only be called corporate capture of the state."
05.11.2025 19:07 — 👍 33 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 0The deep deep shame of the opt out!
05.11.2025 19:38 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
BBC News - MSPs pass land reform which could force break up of huge estates
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Important #rewilding milestone. Officials have announced that a pack of wolves is under strict protection in the Pyrenees. The two adults and their three cubs, born this year, are being looked after by the Catalan government. It is 100 years since wolves disappeared. www.segre.com/ca/societat/...
05.11.2025 19:41 — 👍 49 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
A bird perched on a rock for the #Birdoftheday ? Playing into my hands, allow me to introduce my little friend...
The biggest and best European Raptor. @alan678.bsky.social @iand777.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @pitcarity.bsky.social @markbirdingpinoso.bsky.social 🪶
Thank you for inspiring support!
07.11.2025 19:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social gains important legal victory over harmful dredging.
Blog: markavery.info/2025/11/07/6...
I just love the word 'quashed'.
Well done SWT! I hope other WTs will take similar challenges.
#marine #judicialreview #sussex #dredging #brighton #wildlife
My money’s on the Robin tho’!
05.11.2025 13:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New GB Red List for vascular plants from @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social is comprehensive revision of 2005 list.
Plants are good indicators of the pressures on all our wildlife - things are not getting better.
More details: markavery.info/2025/11/05/b...
My latest book: Wings Across the Atlantic.
Available from independent online bookstore Lulu: bit.ly/47yGi6j
Co-author: Colin Rees; cover, Chris Packham; internal art, Ian Rees.
Profits (if any - hint!) to @wildjustice.bsky.social @abcbirds.bsky.social
More info: bit.ly/3Lc4mVf
#naturewriting
Fourth record of Common Cuckoo for the eastern USA and Canada causes big twitch in New York State after being photographed by golfer.
www.local10.com/news/weird-n...
