Steven Wright

Arriving early with tools for our work party at #AshlawncuttingLNR to be greeted by the Song Thrush near this entrance. It took a while to locate the bird high up in one of the Ash trees. #Birdsong #Birdphotography

£7.8m for southern and central Scotland communities hosting energy transmission infrastructure Funding will be delivered through one of the UK’s leading electricity transmission and distribution network management companies.  SP Energy Networks has announced a £7.8million fund aimed at providin...

£7.8m will go to southern and central Scotland #communities hosting #energy transmission infrastructure.

Upskilling and development, social cohesion projects, green improvements and more will be funded through the investment.

environmentjournal.online/energy/7-8m-...

...and trimmed and layed a length of hedge that separates the raised former lairage from the main path. Hedge management and scrub control will be ongoing in this area for a few sessions.

Looking Northwards over the pond. The once overhanging Willow stumps can be seen below the conservation layed Holly and Hawthorn.

A closer view looking Northwards across the pond showing the layed Holly and thorn and on the right a cleared patch of Snowberry. The pond is getting a lot more light now.

Looking through the new gap to the cleared Snowberry patch. #invasiveplants

Looking through the new gap gives a view over the pond.. Theconservation lay has produced a good thick hedge already but there's more to be done yet.

We continued with the conservatin lay of Holly and Hawthorn on the Northern side of the reservoir pond at #AshawncuttingLNR and......

‘FastTech’ Christmas lights are setting waste streams on fire 183million cheap plug-in and battery products were bought ahead of the holidays last year, sending the risk of blazes at recycling centres rocketing.  According to a new report from Recycle Your Elect...

'FastTech' and cheap Christmas lights are a leading cause of bin lorry, recycling plant and landfill fire.

The UK spent £1.7bn on these items during 2024's festivities.

#ewaste #electricalwaste #pollution #recycling
@recycleelectricals.bsky.social

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Centenary Park :-). Top job Tara @warwickshirecc.bsky.social and volunteers. It's a shame we were busy at #AshlaencuttingLNR otherwise we'd have helped.

Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)

The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used

> neal.fun/size-of-life/

Seasonal delights @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh today...It wasn't often the Redwing showed themselves clearly though.

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Well done Mark. Thank you. Swifts need all the help they can get.

Siskin

Siskin and Goldfinch

Saw my 1st Siskin of the Winter today and it waved back . @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh checking out the Alders.

Thanks,that'll be useful

Thanks for posting the Willow Emerald oviposition scar pics. Now I know what to look for...

Trucked-in honeybees may edge out bigger bumblebee foragers The finding could guide beekeepers to keep hives out of most vulnerable areas of the Irish heathlands.

The evidence keeps on stacking up. When are we going to call out the honey bee #Beewashers? #BeeWashing

www.sciencenews.org/article/hone...

"Hologram lecturers. AI coaching. Robot sandwich-makers."

Somebody needs to confiscate the Loughborough PR team's collection of Red Dwarf videos.

Here's a view looking up the steps from the quarry pool path

Start of the day and before the start of the rain. On the orchid shelf for more scrub clearance.

End of the session,it's opening up nicely but there's a lot of prostrate Ivy to grub up as the next stage in grassland resoration. Still more srub to clear and some felling of larger trees.

Plenty more to go at to le direct light get to the ground. It gets a bit steep here . The top of the bank is the plateau grasslandso it'll be connected.

A tough mornng's work with bowsaws and loppers on the very steep bank up to the path along the top of the spoil bank. Slippery in the wet!!

We missed the very worst of storm Bram this morning at Newbold quarry but still felt the heavy downpours that came and went. Every time we thought about packing up it stopped for a bit!! The orchid shelf grassland extension is getting larger and enthusiasm counts for a great deal.

Image showing the email of what to see in our winter newsletter. Image of a Gatekeeper butterfly at the bottom.

Members it’s time to check you mailbox! Our Winter Newsletter is hot off the press 😀 Find out how our butterflies & moths performed this year! Also updates on conservation work & our Events! We would love any feedback ☺️ #warwickshire #newsletter

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I just waited until someone came up the path to get the flight pic. This bird is accustomed to some disturbance and just waits high up on a perch before gliding back down to feed. Bonus was it stepping onto the path before taking flight. Egrets are seen more these days than before in UK

Habitat pic.

Reed Bunting

Stonechat

5 Pied Wagtails

A good leg stretch @wildlifebcn.org PItsford Water SSSI today saw the best near the end of a 7 mile walk anticlockwise round the reserve.

@everyheron.bsky.social

Allies @wildlifebcn.org Pitford Water SSSI . 2 Great White and 1 Little Egret foraging together with a Grey Heron. Tolerance an/or mutual benefit?

Conservation sometimes tumbles down to gardening. We should work with nature not against it. Change is a constant.

Bee on the left

Looks like Sweet Violet,spotted flowering near the ebtrance to our reserve at #AshlawncuttingLNR. And Gorse,always in flower somewhere on site. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Looking across the pond towards the gap as we left it on Thursday.

End of the session ,after a good clear out to make space for Holly saplings to fall into the first 3 are down and still connected . We layed a Hawthorn over from right to left too . Well it's not a hedgelaying competition just doing what's practical!!!

View from the other side showing pleached stems making a new living hedge. To be continued working to the right laying over to the left....mostly!!

Nearby hedge got a trim too before it turns into a line of Hawthorn trees. Some brash from the thinning around the hollys has been added to it.

See ALT for a description of today's (rainy) work party at #AshlawncuttingLNR. Conservation lay of Holly underway and nearby existing hedge trimmed .

Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it. August 2019. 415ppm CO2"

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Little Egret stops foraging,leaves the water,stretches and flies. Grace and elegance at #AshlawncuttingLNR Delighting passers by.... #Bird

Candlesnuff

Variable Oysterling

Purple Jellydisc

#FungusFriday finds at #AshlawncuttingLNR See ALT