Sally Brockway

If ever there has been a time in your life to withdraw consent from extraction and invest in mutuality, now is that time.

I’ve bought three packs of Sarah’s notebooks so far, as presents and then for myself as they’re so lovely 🥰

Always a pleasure to come across a Golden-fringed Mason Bee (Osmia aurulenta) nest! This is one of 3 UK bee species to nest in empty snail shells. A female had just finished pasting leaf mastic over the entrance to the shell when I came across her yesterday at Porth Neigwl.

#SolitaryBeeWeek

That was wonderful 💚💚

In an Irish Atlantic rainforest this morning, a cuckoo calls (volume up).
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This will make your morning. 🙂

How exciting! What would be the best way to get in touch about your survey work?

I LOVE my daughter's new 'Garden Gang' collection. Bright, colourful, and uplifting... just like the birds themselves.

These paintings, and others, are available from Charlotte's @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social website, here:

www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/art?utm_camp... #birds #birdart 🌿🪶

A large black bee with a red tail and wings crossed over her back. She is nestled in amongst some camellia leaves.

That’s wonderful, Brigit! We also saw the first Queen lapidarius of 2025 in our Cardiff garden today - such a relief!

Doe grazing in an opening in the wood. Oil on canvas

Doe could be found deep in the woodland, far away from the hustle and bustle, surrounded by quiet and magical moments.
This was her sanctuary, a place she could retreat to whenever needed.
She’d spend her days deep in thought, away from it all, filled with peace and enchantment.

A bumblebee dusted in yellow pollen sitting in a greyed-out flower. Text reads: 2024 was the worst year for bumblebees since records began.

It’s official, 2024 was the worst year for bumblebees since records began🚨

The latest findings from #BeeWalk, our national bumblebee monitoring scheme, have revealed bumblebee numbers declined by almost a quarter (22.5%) across Great Britain💔

Read on: www.bumblebeeconservation.org/british-bumb...

Nurture the hell out of the seeds of the future you want because they too are sprouting in the chaos.

Carpinus betulus, Hornbeam; invert associates. Part 1 of 2
Deciduous tree of temperate woods & forests across Europe, usu. with oak. In ancient woodlands & in wood pasture, often seen as pollard & coppice, used for fuel & fodder.
📷 Pl. 369 CAM Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora. PD

Oh, that sunlight is incredible 💚💚 - your recommendations have helped me find so many wonderful artists, Brigit!

@rosybeeplants.bsky.social are amazing!

Nice to see you here, Frank! I remember when we used to see greenfinches all the time in our garden but it’s so rare now. Wonderful to see some signs of recovery 💚💚

I've joined Bluesky! Hoping to follow and be followed by many of my X/Twitter friends. Please Retweet/Repost or whatever the word is. #invertebrates #insects #moths #dragonflies #wildlife

A Christmas tree decorated with different species of needle-felted mushrooms.

One year my daughter said ‘Mum we haven’t got any of your felt mushrooms!’ So since then I’ve been trying to keep one or two for our Christmas tree, not quite a full felt fungi tree yet but we’re getting there!! Other forest themed decorations will be going on too! 🍄🎄

Some of all three are on their way to you! Thank you for sharing your beautiful cats with us all - they bring so much joy 💚💚

‘Earthy and ethereal’ is such a great description of them!!

Four mounted pictures. One of a hedgehog in leaves, one of a playful pouncing fox, one of a hare staring at the most beautiful moon, and one of a deer in a clearing- so peaceful that you feel like you are there 💚

So excited to receive these wonderful prints by @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social 💚💚! I’ve been coveting these for months and they’re even more beautiful in real life. I can’t wait to put them on the wall 🥰

Did u know? We shouldn't be scared of the colour brown in our outside spaces in winter. Seed heads, spent flowers & dry twigs are warm, dry areas where small souls can overwinter in safety, so leave it in situ until you see the first insects on the wing next season. Be more 🤎🌿🌱🪲🦔🐦‍⬛🐌🐙🌍

I say that not to minimize the suffering and loss and harm that is happening, but just to say that it helps me to realize that this aberration of a society run by domination and separation will ultimately be self-limiting, because it defies the operating conditions of the Earth herself.

I’ve been coveting your prints for ages so I’ve taken the opportunity to place an order!!

We don’t talk or do enough about the blight that is light pollution…

Will do! I’d love to think they wouldn’t ruin our fun like that…

Sambucus nigra, Elder, inverts
1. In disentangling wild webs, etymology is often the start point of my research; so many sp. names refer to their associate host. It’s a reminder that these associations have been known for hundreds of years.
By Franz Eugen Köhler, from Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, PD

Oh no! We loved that too 😢

Oval red berries with a brown circle at the top. They are attached to green stems. There is a brick wall in the background

The dog rose hips in our hedge are looking lovely. I’d love to make Rosehip syrup but will wait til there’s enough so I can share equally with the wildlife 💚

If you want to make a REALLY big difference to #butterflies & #moths, just fill your garden loads of native plants for the adults to lay on, and caterpillars to feed on.

Excellent advice on what to plant (and for who) from Butterfly Conservation, here..

butterfly-conservation.org/moths/why-mo...