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YouTube video by Dan Foy Barn Owl. Parkgate, Nov 2025 @southliverpoolbirder#barnowl #parkgate #wirral #birds #wildlife

Dusk at Parkgate is always a treat: Barn Owl, RT Hen Harrier, Merlin, Tawny Owl, 9 Marsh Harrier, Water Pipit, Water Rails, & 5 GW Egret...topped off with a chippy tea! #UKBIRDING #CheshireBirding #WirralBirding youtu.be/x5q8FoD6WPk?...

Crop from original map showing Gulf Of China where Mongolia is

That’s quite a dry gulf…

Sir David Attenborough backs bid to buy Rothbury Estate Wildlife trusts attempt to raise £30m to keep Northumberland's Rothbury Estate from being split up.

Over £9million raised so far in this 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' to do something truly meaningful for nature on a really large scale. It's absolutely doable. Can you help?

Donate here 👉 www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wildlife

Freedom to ride: the unconscious bias that’s limiting our transport choices Northern Ireland Advocacy Lead Andrew McClean reports on our Stormont event where acclaimed environmental psychologist Professor Ian Walker was the keynote speaker: ‘Freedom for all: what does real tr...

We talk about freedom of choice in transport, but what if that freedom isn’t as equal as it seems?

At our Stormont event, behavioural scientist @ianwalker.bsky.social explored motonormativity — the bias that treats driving as the default and everything else as second-best.

cyclinguk.org/stormont

How come Galicia gets its own entry? In a different font?

View of a Tibetan Cherry tree, no leaves left but shiny brown bark, surrounded by raised beds full of flowers

Tibetan Cherry tree, bark shining in the sun

Tibetan Cherry Tree, shiny red-brown bark marked with horizontal band (lenticels)

Nice to check in on the Tibetan Cherry (Prunus serrula) we planted in Coleraine’s Christie Park 20 years ago…

Fascinating!

The young ones are like cupcakes :)

View of ground in garden with tiny fungi that look like bird nests with even tinier eggs

View of ground in garden with fungi that look like tiny white chocolate cakes

Lovely to find Fluted Bird’s Nest Fungus in the garden…

Finally, thanks to PlantNet ID on the fruits, I’ve identified the shrub the bees love as Eucryphia glutinosa - had though it was Xanthoceras for years but Bob Flowerdew put me right…

Pronounced zedtee

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When hospital grounds are managed for biodiversity. Dalriada Hospital in Ballycastle. Mowed paths leading walkers around the site through swathes of native wildflowers alive with pollinators. Swifts calling in the sky. Therapy.

That’s some going to have tomatoes ready! Weeks off up here in Derry :)

Gravel driveway as marsh… it is Northern Ireland after all …

Oops! Bit late but found this Early Purple (?) on our drive… Derry, NI
#WildflowerHour

Field Bindweed? At Ballykelly, Northern Ireland #WildflowerHour

There’s nothing too them under that fluff! Flew out in a flash!

One of ours got inside the fatball feeder…

#WildflowerHour I’ve not seen this before - bare ground around some of the Yellow Rattle in our minimeadow - because of the dry May? #DontMowLetItGrow

A red/orange, doughnut-shaped growth on a nettle, about 5cm across

Nettle Rust in my Derry garden - first time I’ve seen it…

Odd bald Blackbird in St Columb’s Park this morning…

Not seen a display of lilies quite like this before… naturalised near the Slievemore graveyard in Achill, Co Mayo #WildflowerHour

Slightly blurry but we have a flower on the Yellow Rattle in the minimeadow #WildflowerHour

Hoping I haven’t been fooled by this good weather but have set up the tomatoes, cucumbers and aubergines a bit earlier than usual…
Can always fleece them if frosts are forecast…

Oops Rathmullan, Co Donegal

A new one for me, Greater Celandine? #WildflowerHour

But maybe wrong spp

Hi @irishfungalsoc.bsky.social found this in my Derry garden, any help on ID - esculenta, vulgaris or elata?

Just realised how unusual this is for Ireland, have recorded on iNaturalist