@whitmuir1.bsky.social
Small environmentally friendly estate in the Ale Water Valley - Scottish Borders.
Third 2025 visit to my @pomscheme.bsky.social square on arable land. Bit lacking in flowering plants on the stubble. Lot of Speckled Wood about. Not often you get to record a Harvestman on a pollinator survey @meganshersby.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social
30.07.2025 11:28 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Badger - Meles meles up a tree. #ArborealBadgers
13.07.2025 08:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Lapwing - Vanellus vanellus chick growing up fast.
13.07.2025 08:22 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0One of the local #Bats getting close and personal with one of the #PineMarten cameras @batconservation.bsky.social
13.07.2025 08:10 β π 10 π 4 π¬ 0 π 2Nice, the other ones were at my old house.
12.07.2025 19:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Light Arches - Apamea lithoxylaea spotted on a fence post today. #teammoth
23.06.2025 19:26 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Second @pomscheme.bsky.social km square visit of the year. Calm conditions and decent temperature. Pan trap activity has been a bit slow at the start. @ukceh.bsky.social
19.06.2025 13:53 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Decent day for my 1st 2025 @pomscheme.bsky.social 1 kmsq survey. There is a lot of yellow competition with the pantraps today! On the FIT counts there were small pollen munching aliens about on the Daisies and Cocksfoot Moth on both Dandelion and Hawthorn. @ukceh.bsky.social
16.05.2025 12:54 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Orange-tip - Anthocharis cardamines sitting waiting for a female to come past our farm hedge. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
26.04.2025 14:08 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Brown Hare - Lepus europaeus sitting beside our farm track checking on who is all passing. @mammalsociety.bsky.social
19.04.2025 11:19 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Good to see one of our #PineMarten out in the sunshine. Winter coat colour very clear.
17.04.2025 14:47 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Another Jay - Garrulus glandarius at another trail camera taking selfies.
17.04.2025 08:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Jay - Garrulus glandarius posing in front of a camera put up to track Pine Martens. In fact the Jay loves making selfies a bit too much.
16.04.2025 06:38 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Hoverflies are out in numbers doing their thing. Good time to do a @pomscheme.bsky.social #FITcount see ukpoms.org.uk/fit-counts
14.04.2025 07:57 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Someone has built a home on an island in one of our ponds. A possible Canada Goose - Branta canadensis, we do have some hybrids with Greylag Geese in the area. Will be a surprise to see what hatches. Sometimes the Otters raid the nest.
13.04.2025 17:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Small Tortoiseshell - Aglais urticae enjoying the Common Dandelion Taraxacum officinale feast on the farm. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
11.04.2025 12:16 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 014th is last day.
10.04.2025 09:03 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
It's time having Common gorse - Ulex europaeus on farmland is seen as a positive and not penalised in farm payment rules. It makes no sense to incentivise land managers to legally burn this habitat when covered in wildlife.
10.04.2025 06:38 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This is The Herald - Scoliopteryx libatrix which spent the winter in our cold Bothy toilet. I brought it out in the lovely weather so it could wake up in the warmth of the Sun. #teammoth
08.04.2025 08:55 β π 25 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Time to plan your holiday to our valley!
27.03.2025 17:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sallow catkins are an important food source for butterflies after hibernation. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
26.03.2025 05:29 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Does your wolf agree?
20.03.2025 20:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Glorious day to be planting 100 Purging Buckthorn- Rhamnus cathartica. Getting ready for Brimstone butterflies to keep heading North in the future. Skylarks singing overhead. @savebutterflies.bsky.social
20.03.2025 12:42 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Salix gracilistyla 'Melanostachys' - with its striking black catkins coming into flower beside one of our farm ponds.
11.03.2025 17:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Stunning picture, and agree gorgeous creature.
24.02.2025 12:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Just entered the results for our @gwct.org.uk 2025 #BigFarmlandBirdCount.
After 12 years counting we have lots of data from our farm. Not always sure what to make of it, but good fun.
Wet and stormy, but a bit milder, great day to prune our 7 pleached Limes before the birds get too excited.
21.02.2025 09:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Nice to see thirtythree Oystercatcher - Haematopus ostralegus out for a feed.
17.02.2025 16:42 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0You will need to put a wee sign out with instructions.......
17.02.2025 16:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Fezzy inspecting the pleached Lime trees as the snow is slowly falling this cold morning.
17.02.2025 10:48 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
