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Mr & Mrs Bearded Tit sharing the same reed head near the sluice at RSPB Minsmere
#bird #birds #birdphotography #ukwildlife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #NaturePhotography
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03.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
#PollinatorPals furry dronefly (Id by seek) on meadow sweet (I knew that one) #WildflowerHour at Velvet Bottom nature reserve
10.08.2025 19:06 — 👍 19 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0And last for years
08.08.2025 16:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gatekeeper butterfly on teasel flower
Gatekeeper butterfly quite likes spiky teasel #wildflowerhour
13.07.2025 19:24 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A 3x3 grid of insects on oregano flowers: bumblebees, honeybee, hoverflies, butterflies (including ringlet and gatekeeper), a ladybird, and a bee mimic. Each feeds on soft pink blossoms against a blurred green backdrop. A summer feast in miniature.
At this time of year, the oregano in my garden hums with bees, butterflies, hoverflies and other insects. Fitting, perhaps, that its name means “mountain of happiness”—from Greek oros (mountain) & ganos (joy). A herb much loved by pollinators! #FlowersOnFriday #FlowerFridayFamily
11.07.2025 07:11 — 👍 100 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 120 episodes answering your questions about heat pumps, factual and expert
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Galium odoratum invert associates
Over 20 species of invert rely on Galium odoratum, Sweet Woodruff, as a larval host. Flowers late spring–early summer, in leaf from very early spring, in dappled shade in clearings & woodland margins. A distinctive coumarin scent develops in dried material.
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Good debunking here of some of the nonsense pedalled about the "bat tunnel" built for HS2
It's by people with skin in the game - @batconservation.bsky.social - but worth reading
www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04...
See also @whippletom.bsky.social's read on this
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
Oxlips in no mow area of the garden...important early nectar source...and distinguishable from cowslips partly as they tend to face one way
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#ildflowerhour
#Sepals
A drawing of a woman insulating the roof of her home with the text “Isolate Putin - Insulate Homes”
A drawing of four persons erecting a wind turbine against the backdrop of a yellow field and blue sky with the slogan “More Sun, more wind - more peace”
Reminds me of this campaign by the European Greens
30.12.2024 14:35 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Abejorro colgando de una flor verde, detalle del extremo de una de sus patas y un piolet azul para comparar
This Bombus terrestris is hanging from the flower of the stinking hellebore by the hooked ends of her legs. When I look at the shape of claws at the end of bees' legs and how they use them, always comes to my mind how similar they are to ice axes - which mountaineers use for the same purpose
10.02.2025 18:30 — 👍 104 🔁 22 💬 2 📌 1
1/ The UK government’s ‘growth vs newts and bats’ agenda has sparked a bit of a ‘Team Bat Team Newt’ response
It’s heartening and uplifting, but it plays right into their hands
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Graphic: @rosie400.bsky.social
Support the newts! Newts do not hold up planning applications these days
31.01.2025 22:51 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Sedum covered in frost
Another sedum covered in frost
More ice crystals on another plant
Another sedum covered in ice crystals
Garden plants have turned into cacti overnight
11.01.2025 19:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Still some lovely flowers still out at my local nature reserve, I particularly like the harebells, oh and any scabious. I can never decide on a favourite #wildflowerhour
17.11.2024 20:36 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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15.11.2024 20:09 — 👍 107 🔁 43 💬 2 📌 0
In case you missed this earlier in the week, another fantastic and exciting landscape-scale purchase by The Wildlife Trusts (requiring a bit of public fundraising too) – another exclusive story by my colleague Helena Horton. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
31.10.2024 19:49 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Ivy bees have arrived
26.09.2024 20:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cross section of a tree (and ivy) that fell over a footpath, not sure I could have climbed over it
19.04.2024 19:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
MEGA FACTCHECK: Heat pumps are central for the transition to sustainable heating.
But heat pumps face relentless hostile media coverage. I comprehensively debunked 18 heat pump myths in Carbon Brief.
Find it here 👉https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-misleading-myths-about-heat-pumps/
Excuse blurry phone photo, these are red kites and it’s 30 years since I saw my first one not far from here. I never get bored of seeing them
23.12.2023 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Swan
Owl
Duck
Heron
Bird art at Stowe today in the cold
02.12.2023 16:56 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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21.11.2023 01:06 — 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0Rewilding quote of the month:
“If we’re reintroducing megafauna like wolves and lynx, we should be introducing their parasites as well,” said Craig Macadam, the conservation director of the invertebrates charity Buglife.
Does he know something we don't? 🐺
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
