Nick Acheson

Pigs and ponies, ponies and pigs

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Just received an advance hardback copy of ‘Dragonflies’ with masses of fantastic new photos, mostly by Steve Cham, and many new artworks. Also received, a reprint of ‘Bees’, both excellently printed in China.

Sunbow

Blackbird singing in the dawn.

He has no idea I exist but he means the world.

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

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A patch of greeny-grey lichen, Physcia adscendens.

A reminder for members & those with a particular interest in lichens, that there is an NNNS walk at Houghton Hall on Sunday 8th Feb @10:30, led by county lichen recorder
@robyaxley.bsky.social
Park in the main car park, PE31 6TY. For full event details: norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/events-pa...

Norwich, today

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I do swoon over Myrmeleotettix 🙈

It’s gorgeous!

Today’s beautiful book post has my (equal) FAVOURITE grasshopper illustrated by @rlewington2.bsky.social on the cover. Orthopteroids are some of our most charismatic insects and this is a gorgeous guide to their ID, sites and changing status. Thank you @chiffchat.bsky.social 🦗 🪳

Some Norfolk wetlands in the past year for #WorldWetlandsDay

A flower, a venerable tree and a fungus for this week’s #wildflowerhour: winter heliotrope coming into flower, a centuries-old pedunculate oak, and yellow brain fungus on a fallen twig

I'm running the 2026 TCS London Marathon dressed as a badger to raise money for Norfolk Wildlife Trust, the oldest of @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social – celebrating its 100th birthday this year. Please have a laugh at me and help save wildlife! 2026tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/backtheba...

Haha! I’ve been out for an age 😝

Well hello hazel

As my visionary friend @helenb92.bsky.social put it the other day, these are the only live streams we need

For the first time in an age - and rather pungently - the red hinds have been along the river

Every day, just here, I talk to two dear friends whose binoculars will never again be lifted.

This morning there’s a belting song thrush, alder catkins are blushing aubergine and I’ve seen a fluff-bummed sparrowhawk.

In a world of human insanity, I tell them, nature is about her business.

Just a few days to go until our next deadline. Apply at the link below. #ornithology

We’d mourn Reeves’s muntjac, Egyptian & Canada goose, mandarin duck, Duke of Argyll’s teaplant, Rhododendron ponticum & 50M pheasants.

Nobody seems to have clocked it’s the same crowd who want to afflict us with white stork, European tree-frog, hybrid pool frog & more on the flimsiest evidence.

I always wondered what to do with used Ninja Turtles.

Now I know.

Chinese water deer

Abundant now

When you have to be tidy to represent Norfolk Wildlife Trust in the media at lunchtime but want to fit in a really muddy walk on the way ☺️

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This song thrush and I would like to wish everyone a great week.

(Also the first reed bunting singing and a couple of embarrassed notes from a chaffinch. Take that, winter.)

Woodcock feather from a wild walk