Lesley Totten
@lesleytotten.bsky.social
Passionate about Birds and Nature in general. Poet. Studied Art History. Teacher of care-experienced young people. Proud mother and resident of Edinburgh.
Great trip #LochArkaig -just annouced as a #Nature30 protected area by @naturescot.bsky.social Well done to #ArkaigForest & @WTscotsocial.bsky.social Broad-leaved Willowherb, Primrose (not sure if it’s the last or first though !😱), Bramble, Wild strawberry and Knapweed @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Great trip #LochArkaig -just annouced as a #Nature30 protected area by @naturescot.bsky.social Well done to #ArkaigForest & @WTscotsocial.bsky.social Broad-leaved Willowherb, Primrose (not sure if it’s the last or first though !😱), Bramble, Wild strawberry and Knapweed @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
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RIP #JaneGoodall - one of the modern pioneers of profound interconnections between people, animals and ecosystems. Her life was lived through science, compassion and tireless advocacy for the multiple values of nature - leaving a legacy that will endure for people and planet.
BREAKING: Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died.
Jane Goodall, conservationist renowned for chimpanzee research and environmental advocacy, has died
Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy, has died. She was 91.
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October 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
RIP #JaneGoodall - one of the modern pioneers of profound interconnections between people, animals and ecosystems. Her life was lived through science, compassion and tireless advocacy for the multiple values of nature - leaving a legacy that will endure for people and planet.
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Illegal hunting for traditional medicine ingredients and rising demand for wild meat are fuelling the illegal wildlife trade, which poses a major threat to the survival of rhinos.
— @ipbes.net #SustainableUse Assessment
On #WorldRhinoDay, let's highlight the importance of protecting rhinoceros. 🦏
— @ipbes.net #SustainableUse Assessment
On #WorldRhinoDay, let's highlight the importance of protecting rhinoceros. 🦏
September 22, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Illegal hunting for traditional medicine ingredients and rising demand for wild meat are fuelling the illegal wildlife trade, which poses a major threat to the survival of rhinos.
— @ipbes.net #SustainableUse Assessment
On #WorldRhinoDay, let's highlight the importance of protecting rhinoceros. 🦏
— @ipbes.net #SustainableUse Assessment
On #WorldRhinoDay, let's highlight the importance of protecting rhinoceros. 🦏
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So lovely!
Some lovely Autumn Gentians flowering on the verge of the road to Helmsley, but only tiny. #WildflowerHour #GentianFamily
thanks to @wonkyeggs.bsky.social who knew where to find them
thanks to @wonkyeggs.bsky.social who knew where to find them
August 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
So lovely!
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Centaury flowers #GentianFamily #WildflowerHour
August 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Centaury flowers #GentianFamily #WildflowerHour
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Some lovely Autumn Gentians flowering on the verge of the road to Helmsley, but only tiny. #WildflowerHour #GentianFamily
thanks to @wonkyeggs.bsky.social who knew where to find them
thanks to @wonkyeggs.bsky.social who knew where to find them
August 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Some lovely Autumn Gentians flowering on the verge of the road to Helmsley, but only tiny. #WildflowerHour #GentianFamily
thanks to @wonkyeggs.bsky.social who knew where to find them
thanks to @wonkyeggs.bsky.social who knew where to find them
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Common centaury adding a pop of colour to a car park at Swaddywell Pit nature reserve, near Peterborough this week.
#langdyke
#swaddywell
#wildflowerhour
#gentianfamily
#langdyke
#swaddywell
#wildflowerhour
#gentianfamily
August 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Common centaury adding a pop of colour to a car park at Swaddywell Pit nature reserve, near Peterborough this week.
#langdyke
#swaddywell
#wildflowerhour
#gentianfamily
#langdyke
#swaddywell
#wildflowerhour
#gentianfamily
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Wow!!! What a tonic to see all those beautiful wildflowers & gorgeous gentians!!! Huge thanks to all who shared their lovely pics! I wonder what the next week will bring? Let’s meet again next Sunday to find out. Happy flower hunting!
In the week we went to the New Forest to see the beautiful Marsh Gentians the #WildflowerHour challenge is #GentianFamily What a happy coincidence @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Wow!!! What a tonic to see all those beautiful wildflowers & gorgeous gentians!!! Huge thanks to all who shared their lovely pics! I wonder what the next week will bring? Let’s meet again next Sunday to find out. Happy flower hunting!
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Common Calamint, Clinopodium ascendens, at Folkestone Warren for #WildflowerHour.
August 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Common Calamint, Clinopodium ascendens, at Folkestone Warren for #WildflowerHour.
A beautiful collection around #BlackfordPond in South Edinburgh, Water mint, Rapeseed, Purple Loostrife, Rosebay willowherb, Michaelmas daisy, Water forget me not and an unusual find for me, Enchanter’s nightshade ! #wildflowerhour #ID ?
August 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A beautiful collection around #BlackfordPond in South Edinburgh, Water mint, Rapeseed, Purple Loostrife, Rosebay willowherb, Michaelmas daisy, Water forget me not and an unusual find for me, Enchanter’s nightshade ! #wildflowerhour #ID ?
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Yellow wort and common centaury from walks in W. Berks and S. Oxon respectively this week for the #GentianFamily challenge. #wildflowerhour
August 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Yellow wort and common centaury from walks in W. Berks and S. Oxon respectively this week for the #GentianFamily challenge. #wildflowerhour
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Arran wildflowers, Sea campion, Honeysuckle, Sea rocket, Common knapweed, Sheep’s-bit and Enchanter’s nightshade. #WildflowerHour
August 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Arran wildflowers, Sea campion, Honeysuckle, Sea rocket, Common knapweed, Sheep’s-bit and Enchanter’s nightshade. #WildflowerHour
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It was the perfect day to visit Nob End SSSI (it really is called that 😆😂) to see how the Autumn Gentians were getting on. I had such a happy time admiring them, they were looking absolutely stunning in the glorious sunshine!💜
#WildflowerHour #GentianFamily #GentianFriend
#WildflowerHour #GentianFamily #GentianFriend
August 24, 2025 at 5:44 PM
It was the perfect day to visit Nob End SSSI (it really is called that 😆😂) to see how the Autumn Gentians were getting on. I had such a happy time admiring them, they were looking absolutely stunning in the glorious sunshine!💜
#WildflowerHour #GentianFamily #GentianFriend
#WildflowerHour #GentianFamily #GentianFriend
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The very bluest of the blue - a dazzling male Adonis Blue at Folkestone Warren. 💙
August 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The very bluest of the blue - a dazzling male Adonis Blue at Folkestone Warren. 💙
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Help @rspbscience.bsky.social study bird disease (trichomonosis) outbreaks
If you see a sick or dead bird in your garden, please report it here: gardenwildlifehealth.org
@bto-gbw.bsky.social
@zslscience.bsky.social
📷 Ben Andrew
If you see a sick or dead bird in your garden, please report it here: gardenwildlifehealth.org
@bto-gbw.bsky.social
@zslscience.bsky.social
📷 Ben Andrew
July 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Help @rspbscience.bsky.social study bird disease (trichomonosis) outbreaks
If you see a sick or dead bird in your garden, please report it here: gardenwildlifehealth.org
@bto-gbw.bsky.social
@zslscience.bsky.social
📷 Ben Andrew
If you see a sick or dead bird in your garden, please report it here: gardenwildlifehealth.org
@bto-gbw.bsky.social
@zslscience.bsky.social
📷 Ben Andrew
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Not strictly botanical, but I think these are oak artichoke galls, caused by the little wasp Andricus foecundatrix? on Pedunculate Oak, Quercus robur. I've never seen them before but found them several times here in #CoSligo this summer. #PlantGalls @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Not strictly botanical, but I think these are oak artichoke galls, caused by the little wasp Andricus foecundatrix? on Pedunculate Oak, Quercus robur. I've never seen them before but found them several times here in #CoSligo this summer. #PlantGalls @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social
Bit late for #WildflowerHour but I know you will love this Haresfoot Clover, Chicory and Agrimony found in the field margins near #GosfordHouse East Lothian @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #EastLothian
August 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Bit late for #WildflowerHour but I know you will love this Haresfoot Clover, Chicory and Agrimony found in the field margins near #GosfordHouse East Lothian @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #EastLothian
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Mexican Fleabane, Erigeron karvinskianus, abundant on the embankments of the River Lee in Cork. #Wildflowerhour
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
August 3, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Mexican Fleabane, Erigeron karvinskianus, abundant on the embankments of the River Lee in Cork. #Wildflowerhour
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
Delighted to find a few Seapinks still holding on - about to be further battered by the winds on the East Lothian coast at Longniddry - Armeria maritima #ByTheSea #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Delighted to find a few Seapinks still holding on - about to be further battered by the winds on the East Lothian coast at Longniddry - Armeria maritima #ByTheSea #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
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A majestic female Marsh Harrier at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen last weekend.
July 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
A majestic female Marsh Harrier at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen last weekend.
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We went to the Norfolk Broads last weekend for to see the Swallowtail butterflies. But we were also heartened by the apparent abundance of other species, many of whom were particularly enjoying the Hemp Agrimony.
Meadow Brown (on Creeping Thistle)
Comma
Peacock
Red Admiral
Meadow Brown (on Creeping Thistle)
Comma
Peacock
Red Admiral
July 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
We went to the Norfolk Broads last weekend for to see the Swallowtail butterflies. But we were also heartened by the apparent abundance of other species, many of whom were particularly enjoying the Hemp Agrimony.
Meadow Brown (on Creeping Thistle)
Comma
Peacock
Red Admiral
Meadow Brown (on Creeping Thistle)
Comma
Peacock
Red Admiral
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Weld, Reseda luteola, beside the tram tracks in Croydon. Also known as Dyer's Rocket, as it can be used to produce a yellow dye. #WildflowerHour
July 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Weld, Reseda luteola, beside the tram tracks in Croydon. Also known as Dyer's Rocket, as it can be used to produce a yellow dye. #WildflowerHour
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Beautiful scenes of Harebell in acid grassland, Leicestershire. #HarebellChallenge #wildflowerhour
July 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Beautiful scenes of Harebell in acid grassland, Leicestershire. #HarebellChallenge #wildflowerhour
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Keen to know which other (once common) plants were listed as Near Threatened, like Harebell. on the England Red List?
Here's the List: bsbi.org/England_Red_...
Here's the List: bsbi.org/England_Red_...
July 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Keen to know which other (once common) plants were listed as Near Threatened, like Harebell. on the England Red List?
Here's the List: bsbi.org/England_Red_...
Here's the List: bsbi.org/England_Red_...
Ultra-blue-violet #HarebellChallenge in a wildflower tapestry along the banks of the Strontian River, Ariundle NNR for #wildflowerhour @asrainforest.bsky.social @BSBIScotland.bsky.social @PlantlifeScot.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Ultra-blue-violet #HarebellChallenge in a wildflower tapestry along the banks of the Strontian River, Ariundle NNR for #wildflowerhour @asrainforest.bsky.social @BSBIScotland.bsky.social @PlantlifeScot.bsky.social