Rachael Bentley
@freshairwildhair.bsky.social
Writer with a passion for UK wildlife, the environment and folklore.
A crow attacked this young rabbit today so he’s now in a makeshift hotel to get some recovery space. If he makes it he can join the crew feasting on my veggies. #animalrescue
May 2, 2025 at 6:08 PM
A crow attacked this young rabbit today so he’s now in a makeshift hotel to get some recovery space. If he makes it he can join the crew feasting on my veggies. #animalrescue
Van Morrison’s ‘Into the Mystic’ was originally into the misty - thanks to @circleofpines.bsky.social book Chasing Fog for that little gem. #mistymorning #naturewriting
February 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Van Morrison’s ‘Into the Mystic’ was originally into the misty - thanks to @circleofpines.bsky.social book Chasing Fog for that little gem. #mistymorning #naturewriting
The gray world, the gray world,
That clouds the face of Spring,
That clothes in nebulous white shrouds
Each near, familiar thing
Esther M. Clark
#naturewriting
That clouds the face of Spring,
That clothes in nebulous white shrouds
Each near, familiar thing
Esther M. Clark
#naturewriting
January 11, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The gray world, the gray world,
That clouds the face of Spring,
That clothes in nebulous white shrouds
Each near, familiar thing
Esther M. Clark
#naturewriting
That clouds the face of Spring,
That clothes in nebulous white shrouds
Each near, familiar thing
Esther M. Clark
#naturewriting
According to the #stateofclimateuk report #hazel catkins are being spotted earlier and earlier due to climate change. I spotted several trees full of golden lambs tails 6 weeks earlier than in 2024. I wonder how they’ll fare with the cold snap that’s coming.
January 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
According to the #stateofclimateuk report #hazel catkins are being spotted earlier and earlier due to climate change. I spotted several trees full of golden lambs tails 6 weeks earlier than in 2024. I wonder how they’ll fare with the cold snap that’s coming.
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One teaspoon of the neonicotinoids pesticide could kill 1.25 billion bees. And yet the Government could be about to let it back on English fields. Sign the petition: tell Ministers to keep this ban on bee-killing pesticides in place. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/save-our...
Sign the petition: Keep our fields free of bee-killing pesticides!
One teaspoon of the neonicotinoids pesticide could kill 1.25 billion bees. And yet the Government could be about to let it back on English fields. Sign the petition: tell Ministers to keep this ban on...
act.38degrees.org.uk
January 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
One teaspoon of the neonicotinoids pesticide could kill 1.25 billion bees. And yet the Government could be about to let it back on English fields. Sign the petition: tell Ministers to keep this ban on bee-killing pesticides in place. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/save-our...
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This is so sad.
The red-backed shrike, known as the butcher bird for its habit of impaling prey corpses on thorns etc, has been virtually extinct as a UK breeding species for decades. That it was once common is apparent from Richard Jefferies’s description of taking the train from London to Brighton in the 1880s.
![Butcher-birds or shrikes are frequently found on the telegraph wires; from that [Pg 183]
elevation they pounce down on their prey, and return again to the wire. There were
two pairs of shrikes using the telegraph wires for this purpose one spring only a
short distance beyond noisy Clapham Junction. Another pair came back several
seasons to a particular part of the wires, near a bridge, and I have seen a hawk
perched on the wire equally near London.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nqu647dxieaalotdatjaol66/bafkreidgcm3xax2fdncwvxs4x6vw3a5jm3jsce4mqsg5el2crkfwtfotte@jpeg)
December 27, 2024 at 10:27 PM
This is so sad.
The mists frayed and revealed nature stripped back to its bones. The trees, undressed, possessed a different kind beauty today. #boxingdaywalk #naturewriting
December 26, 2024 at 6:07 PM
The mists frayed and revealed nature stripped back to its bones. The trees, undressed, possessed a different kind beauty today. #boxingdaywalk #naturewriting
Christmas Eve, it’s hardly perceptible but we’ve passed the darkest time of the year, which is something to celebrate. We’re gaining a few seconds more light each day and by March it will be 3 minutes a day. It’s what Christmas is all about for me, nature’s cycles - and hope. #naturewriting
December 24, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Christmas Eve, it’s hardly perceptible but we’ve passed the darkest time of the year, which is something to celebrate. We’re gaining a few seconds more light each day and by March it will be 3 minutes a day. It’s what Christmas is all about for me, nature’s cycles - and hope. #naturewriting
The power of an author …to make me sob at the demise of a canny politician with blood on his hands. The final episode of the tv adaption of the late, great Hilary Mantel’s #themirrorandthelight has floored me.
December 15, 2024 at 10:43 PM
The power of an author …to make me sob at the demise of a canny politician with blood on his hands. The final episode of the tv adaption of the late, great Hilary Mantel’s #themirrorandthelight has floored me.
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December 3, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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Writers past and present from the Bath Spa Travel and Nature MA. Feel free to share or send me your suggestions.
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November 24, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Writers past and present from the Bath Spa Travel and Nature MA. Feel free to share or send me your suggestions.
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Great idea here from @georgemcgavin #naturewriting #nature
As the season of giving approaches, may I suggest to all parents and grandparents that they give their budding little scientists the best gift of all - a x10 hand lens. I got my first one when I was around ten years old and it opened up a whole world of wonder. It's a weapon of mass education...
November 23, 2024 at 2:48 PM
Great idea here from @georgemcgavin #naturewriting #nature
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"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."
- Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
💙📚 #BookishQOTD
- Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
💙📚 #BookishQOTD
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જ⁀➴ What is your favorite classic novel? Share a quote from it!
#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚
જ⁀➴ What is your favorite classic novel? Share a quote from it!
#BookishQOTD 📖🦋 #Booksky 💙📚
November 21, 2024 at 8:57 PM
"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."
- Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
💙📚 #BookishQOTD
- Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
💙📚 #BookishQOTD
The sun has come out so now it looks like the gods have had the sugar shaker out. #naturewriting #lunchbreak
November 21, 2024 at 2:10 PM
The sun has come out so now it looks like the gods have had the sugar shaker out. #naturewriting #lunchbreak
I was a child of the 70s and remember asking what that funny bird was on the washing line. “Just a cuckoo” my mum replied. In my lifetime so many of our birds have followed the cuckoo’s decline. Shifting baselines mean children now need a nature GCSE more than ever. Any news on this? #naturewriting
The Wild Bird Indicators, using BTO data, have been updated today. It’s not good news. 😔 The ‘all bird species’ index shows an overall shallow decline of 16% since 1970. Find out more ➡️ www.gov.uk/government/s...
November 20, 2024 at 2:39 PM
I was a child of the 70s and remember asking what that funny bird was on the washing line. “Just a cuckoo” my mum replied. In my lifetime so many of our birds have followed the cuckoo’s decline. Shifting baselines mean children now need a nature GCSE more than ever. Any news on this? #naturewriting
Hello Blueskies. A glimmer of a silver lining as the world turns cold. Late autumn and the starlings are gathering.
#naturewriting #x-odus
#naturewriting #x-odus
November 18, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Hello Blueskies. A glimmer of a silver lining as the world turns cold. Late autumn and the starlings are gathering.
#naturewriting #x-odus
#naturewriting #x-odus