Larissa

Done :)

A few photos of some nice trees and features from yesterday's woodland survey for the Ouse Landscape Recovery project. This is the 9th woodland surveyed and management plans written to inform the project and potential impacts from raising surrounding water levels.

IRecord has (rightly) flagged it. And now I’m wondering whether I saw it or not 😅 but at the time I couldn’t have been anything else. Habitat wise there’s a CWS woodland with mostly oaks 500m away and the woods here is relatively young (1950s).

How rare are these - or is it also a case of under recording? I saw one fly low in the canopy here - black with white stripe, very clear. There were red admirals and small whites flying too, but very different and flight behaviour was very different. Flew into canopy before I could get a pic.

Thanks! Will try and check for males, saw another today and again, just too busy to stop so I could take a proper look.

Any tips on IDing skippers when they just won’t sit still? 😂

Fen nettle spotted on a farm today. Always enjoy finding this, and convincing people to give it a rub. (It doesn’t sting). Definitely glad it was fen nettle given the amount we walked through!

What it means to be weird | BPS Professor Catherine Loveday (University of Westminster) reviews ‘Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal – My adventures in Neurodiversity’, by Robin Ince.

Thank you to everyone who is helping get the word out about Normally Weird - seems the media has grown bored of this sort of stuff - Gina Rippon’s excellent Lost Girls of Autism has seen similar silence - thank you to The Psychologist

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What a beauty!

#bats 🦇 #ecology #britishecologist

Just a brown long eared bat & a barbastelle hanging out together

(Photo taken under licence)

Whilst Barbastelles are rare in the UK we are very lucky that they seem to like it here in the east. All the more reason to ensure their protection here and the Western Link Road must stay off the table

Too sweet - though I have made cider vinegar before.

That’ll be why it flagged on iRecord - will be setting the trap later this week & will retain one if I get it again. How hard is ID under a microscope? 🤔

🤣🤣🤦🏻‍♀️ I should go to sleep

I genuinely thought that, couldn’t even remove a tick from my son when he was a baby. Last one I had was on my boob and didn’t even flinch! Maggots are my real hate, but after scrubbing them off my sheep’s butt, I can’t imagine it being worse so kinda not bothered now either.

Thanks, that’s good to know - still learning micros so there’s likely a going to be some mis-IDs 😅

Listen to the @ologies.bsky.social episodes on ticks - it pretty much cured my fear of them.

My pears are looking good this year! Just wish I liked pears 🤣

Not every day you find a lizard in the livingroom…

My daughter “muuuum, there’s a lizard in heeeerrreee”

Genuinely thought she was playing a trick with her lizard toy, she’s 4 and that’s her style. But the girl was right.

#lizard #commonlizard #britishecologists #ecology

I didn’t tackle most of the micros either, and about 20 escaped 🤪

Haven’t trapped for a month, but despite setting the trap, then having to move to the shed doorway for cover from a storm - we got a fantastic catch! Photos of some of the highlights; cream spotted garden tiger, swallow-tailed and elephant hawk.
#norfolkmoths #britishecologsits #mothtrap #moths

Just a longhorn beetle Stenocorus meridianus 🪲 #beetle #longhornbeetle #britishbeetles

Some stunning veteran field maples in a lapsed hedgerow at a site yesterday. What a treat!
#veterantrees #trees #fieldmaple #britishecologists

New planning system will harm nature and development | Matthew Stanton posted on the topic | LinkedIn Whilst the planning system might have problems, nature isn’t one of them. Feedback from developers on the current system is that they understand the mitigation hierarchy, the processes and what they n...

Great explanation why the planning and infrastructure bill is anything but a win win for nature and development

@terryjermymp.bsky.social

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@terryjermymp.bsky.social - part 3 needs to go.

Fix the Planning Bill NOW! Before the General Election Labour promised to restore nature. Less than a year in, and the new Chancellor is leading a charge against the natural world Email your MP to remove Part 3 of the Bill AND ...

Before the General Election Labour promised to restore nature. Less than a year in, and the new Chancellor is leading a charge against the natural world
Email your MP to remove Part 3 of the Bill AND ask THEM to call out the Chancellor for her attack on nature wtru.st/fix-the-bill

Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds

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YouTube video by Chris Packham Homes for Everyone and Nature Too | Live Panel, Hay Festival

Brilliant panel discussion at the Hay Festival on planning reform.

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Planning and Infrastructure Bill | Norfolk Wildlife Trust Norfolk Wildlife Trust believes that the Planning and Infrastructure Bill represents the biggest threat to our nature laws for over a generation. As currently drafted, the bill represents a loss for n...

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