The importance of late summer/autumnal garden flowers.
Small copper feasting on echinacea here.
#GardensHour @gardenshour.bsky.social
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
#UKWildlife

Today @derbyswildlife.bsky.social we got involved in some #CitizenScience
Even if you haven't got a #GreatUKWaterblitz kit, you can still take part in the Big River Watch between now and 25 Sept
@theriverstrust.bsky.social @earthwatcheurope.bsky.social
@josmithwild.bsky.social

Large numbers of fly agaric @derbyswildlife.bsky.social Lea Woods today
It's a magical enough place but these were wonderful
#volunteering
#FungiFriends

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#Favouriteflower
Alpine pansies at Gang Mine in April @derbyswildlife.bsky.social
#wildflowerhour

Clive, a former trawlerman, knows first-hand the devastation that bottom trawling inflicts on the seafloor. Now, he's calling for urgent protection of our marine havens 🪸

Recovery IS possible, but only if we ACT NOW!

Have you say 👉 only.one/act/uk-mpa-c...

🙏 Picture Book Media & Sussex Underwater

If you get the chance, go and see The Last Stand of Mary Whitehouse @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social
Maxine Peake and Samuel Barnett ( in multiple roles) are excellent.
Thought provoking, relevant, hilarious and very very serious
Directed by Sarah Frankcom and written by @carolinebirduk.bsky.social

‘A last resort’: is culling foxes the only way to save Britain’s vanishing curlews? Keeping predator numbers down may be last hope for the ground-nesting birds – but critics say real problem is farming practices

Mary Colwell asks whether it's time to talk about a fox cull. I argue it's time to talk about the absurd annual release of 60 Million non-native gamebirds that undoubtedly supports the over-abundance of foxes & other mesopredators.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Interesting session facilitated by Matt Browne of @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social and good to see @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social
Messages both realistic and hopeful as to how we make nature underpin everything from corporate boards to local councils
@craigbennett3.bsky.social @josmithwild.bsky.social

The Phabulous Pheasant Show @wildsummituk.bsky.social
by @wildjustice.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social @bobelliot.bsky.social @lucylapwing.bsky.social @mrhenrymorris.substack.com
Let hope the absurd and grotesque becomes the illegal
@markavery.bsky.social
@derbyswildlife.bsky.social

A day of gritstone edges...far from the madding crowd of Kinder and Mam Tor. Cronking ravens and stonking ling heather
#TheTrinnacle

I've not kept the packet, but pretty sure they were Mr Fothergill's Evening Sun mix

A combination of lawn arrival-harebells...complementing perfectly the erigeron, verbena bonariensis and anise hyssop
@gardenshour.bsky.social
#GardensHour

Sunflowers with a backdrop of Katy apples for @gardenshour.bsky.social
#GardensHour
#SixWeeksOfColour

A well dressing showing Jane Austen characters and quotes

"There is not a finer county in England than Derbyshire"
#Welldressing
#Eyam
@derbyswildlife.bsky.social @peakdistrict.bsky.social

Making hay while the sun shines
#tedding
#baling
#pleasantlytired

That's a great (c)raft
We have a local raft race each Boxing Day..bit chillier
See top middle for a Ranch style beans idea for next year!

I think 10 Minutes 38 Seconds is my favourite so far...I think, done well, it would make a great film too.
Island of Missing Trees next for me.

Thanks both...I will be at Debbie's funeral today...I hope her family can gain some solace from what will be a lasting legacy

Today we meet to say goodbye to and celebrate Debbie Bailey.... May her energy and passion carry on inspiring us to get involved, campaign and care.
Thank you @chrisgpackham.bsky.social for the well put tribute
@badgertrust.bsky.social @derbyswildlife.bsky.social
@wildjustice.bsky.social

Your chance to get involved in #CitizenScience
Sign up via the link below to get your test kit and get involved
Our rivers need us to monitor, protect and campaign
@earthwatcheurope.bsky.social @riverflies.bsky.social @paulpowlesland.bsky.social @iolowilliams.bsky.social @naturescotland.bsky.social

Katy apples nearly ripe to pick
Edible and joyful....Plant and Produce show ready?
#GardensHour
@gardenshour.bsky.social
#SixWeeksOfColour

www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-se...

Click on the photo to see a recent tribute by @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Debbie inspired me to join, work and campaign with @derbyswildlife.bsky.social
I hope her work will continue and her legacy inspire many more

Please share and contribute if you can. Debbie Bailey was an inspiration, a doer and achieved so much. Her energy in protecting wildlife will live on.

View of wildflower area at Peak Village, Rowsley..with wild carrot heads in the foreground under a blue sky with scudding clouds

A beautiful and productive day @derbyswildlife.bsky.social Peak Village nature walk
Nearly completed the accessible wheelchair friendly path to ensure views of and picnics by the river. Summer pruned the apple trees.

I loved the book...found myself looking forward to the Arthur chapters the most.

V unlike me, but I may be humming Mr Blue Sky

Peak District waymarker in front of heather moorland, one way pointing to Cutthroat Bridge

A fingerpost on a nearly fingerpost, with a hint of jeopardy
#FingerpostFriday
#DerwentEdge

Collage of 6 pics showing gritstone rocks and purple heather

Purple...no rain
Derwent Edge at her finest

....oh, and did I mention the harebells?

Collage of hillside, yellow Alpine pansies, Spring sandworm, caterpillar on ragwort and eyebright

Interpretation board at Gang Mine Derbyshire illustrating plants that can be found there

Bit tardy for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social but a glorious afternoon @derbyswildlife.bsky.social Gang Mine yesterday. Banks of wild thyme, Alpine pansies which seem to last forever, spring sandwort, the promise of a cinnabar moth caterpillar, and coquettish eyebright
#wildflowerhour