Moira O'Donnell
@naturelark.bsky.social
Fae Dundee 🏴 but now in South London. Choral singing, botany, butterflies, birds, wee beasties, cups of tea, G&T. Larking about in nature. Ooh look, there's a thing... 🤔
#WildflowerHour
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#WildflowerHour
I've brought all my posts from X with me.
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Is it a swan? Is it an angel? I think it's a swangel.
A big patch of Spotted Dead-nettle, Lamium maculatum, has established itself at the entrance to Miller's Pond in Croydon. #WildflowerHour
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November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A big patch of Spotted Dead-nettle, Lamium maculatum, has established itself at the entrance to Miller's Pond in Croydon. #WildflowerHour
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
Selfheal, Prunella vulgaris, in the grassy area around Miller's Pond in Croydon. #WildflowerHour
November 9, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Selfheal, Prunella vulgaris, in the grassy area around Miller's Pond in Croydon. #WildflowerHour
Some teeny weeny Thyme-leaved Speedwell, Veronica serpyllifolia, in the grassy area area around Miller's Pond in Croydon. #WildflowerHour
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some teeny weeny Thyme-leaved Speedwell, Veronica serpyllifolia, in the grassy area area around Miller's Pond in Croydon. #WildflowerHour
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Woohoo! It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it’s time for #wildflowerhour 🥳 Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised blooms you’ve spotted in the last week & did you manage to find ten for #thewinter10 our challenge for the coldest months?
#thewinter10 in N. Wilts. for the #WildflowerHour challenge: Hogweed, Burnet Saxifrage, Wild Angelica, White Dead-nettle, Wild Basil, Bush Vetch, Welted Thistle, Devil's-bit Scabious, Ivy-leaved Toadflax & Trailing Bellflower. #WiltsBotSoc @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Woohoo! It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it’s time for #wildflowerhour 🥳 Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised blooms you’ve spotted in the last week & did you manage to find ten for #thewinter10 our challenge for the coldest months?
A Pied Wagtail at East Croydon station waiting for the 9.33 to Victoria.
November 9, 2025 at 9:40 AM
A Pied Wagtail at East Croydon station waiting for the 9.33 to Victoria.
I went to visit the twelfth-century mural at St Peter and St Paul Church, Chaldon yesterday. I'm going to be very good from now on, as Hell really doesn't look like much fun, and I want to be scooting up that ladder of salvation.
www.chaldonchurch.co.uk/history/chal...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.chaldonchurch.co.uk/history/chal...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
November 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I went to visit the twelfth-century mural at St Peter and St Paul Church, Chaldon yesterday. I'm going to be very good from now on, as Hell really doesn't look like much fun, and I want to be scooting up that ladder of salvation.
www.chaldonchurch.co.uk/history/chal...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.chaldonchurch.co.uk/history/chal...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
An Oxeye Daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare, in the churchyard of All Saints, Sanderstead, for #WildflowerHour.
November 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
An Oxeye Daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare, in the churchyard of All Saints, Sanderstead, for #WildflowerHour.
Slender Thistle, Carduus tenuiflorus, at Elmley NNR this week for #WildflowerHour.
November 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Slender Thistle, Carduus tenuiflorus, at Elmley NNR this week for #WildflowerHour.
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It’s Sunday, it’s 8pm so it must be time for #WildflowerHour AND it’s the start of #thewinter10 our lovely challenge for the winter months!
At first glance on my walk this afternoon, it didn’t seem like much was in flower but upon closer inspection I soon spotted twelve in bloom for the start of #thewinter10, the #wildflowerhour challenge for the winter months. See ALT for names ☺️
November 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It’s Sunday, it’s 8pm so it must be time for #WildflowerHour AND it’s the start of #thewinter10 our lovely challenge for the winter months!
A wee cutie of a Parrot Waxcap in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist, Shirley, for #FungiFriday.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A wee cutie of a Parrot Waxcap in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist, Shirley, for #FungiFriday.
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Shout out to all those yesterday who wrote the name correctly as I wrote it in my blog. It's White-knuckled Wolf Spider, not white-knuckled wolf spider. I'm so sick of having species names 'corrected' in such a way. I've written a significant section in my book explaining how to write them correctly
October 31, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Shout out to all those yesterday who wrote the name correctly as I wrote it in my blog. It's White-knuckled Wolf Spider, not white-knuckled wolf spider. I'm so sick of having species names 'corrected' in such a way. I've written a significant section in my book explaining how to write them correctly
A rather indignant looking Skylark at Elmley NNR yesterday.
October 31, 2025 at 1:49 PM
A rather indignant looking Skylark at Elmley NNR yesterday.
A good hare day yesterday at Elmley NNR. A beautiful Brown Hare in the field next to the car park. 🤎
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A good hare day yesterday at Elmley NNR. A beautiful Brown Hare in the field next to the car park. 🤎
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Only two more day to get the chance to win a bat box!
October Giveaway!! Any new members joining this month will be entered in a prize draw for the chance to win this Beaumaris bat box from CJ Wildlife ! This would make an amazing Christmas gift or a treat for yourself.
Join today: www.bats.org.uk/membership/s...
Join today: www.bats.org.uk/membership/s...
October 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Only two more day to get the chance to win a bat box!
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A gorgeous Neoboletus luridiformis - Scarletina Bolete seen in the Wyre Forest today #FungiFriends #ukwildlife
October 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A gorgeous Neoboletus luridiformis - Scarletina Bolete seen in the Wyre Forest today #FungiFriends #ukwildlife
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We're firmly into autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, so it's once again time to share one of my favourite chemistry infographics on the kaleidoscope of chemical colours found in autumn leaves! 🍂
www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/11/a...
#ChemSky 🧪
www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/11/a...
#ChemSky 🧪
October 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
We're firmly into autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, so it's once again time to share one of my favourite chemistry infographics on the kaleidoscope of chemical colours found in autumn leaves! 🍂
www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/11/a...
#ChemSky 🧪
www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/11/a...
#ChemSky 🧪
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Proofs of Field Guide to Dragonflies & Damselflies of GB&I have arrived and look good. Written by Steve Brooks & Steve Cham with many new artworks, photos and detailed maps, make it the most complete guide to British Odonata. The 6th edition in 28 years
October 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Proofs of Field Guide to Dragonflies & Damselflies of GB&I have arrived and look good. Written by Steve Brooks & Steve Cham with many new artworks, photos and detailed maps, make it the most complete guide to British Odonata. The 6th edition in 28 years
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Looking up into the crown of a much-loved ancient Small-leaved Lime coppice stool in Old Sulehay Forest on a gloomy grey day, the remaining leaves gradually changing from green to clear-yellow.
@wildlifebcn.org #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildlifebcn.org #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Looking up into the crown of a much-loved ancient Small-leaved Lime coppice stool in Old Sulehay Forest on a gloomy grey day, the remaining leaves gradually changing from green to clear-yellow.
@wildlifebcn.org #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildlifebcn.org #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
A lovely floofy Kestrel at Abberton Reservoir yesterday. 😍
October 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A lovely floofy Kestrel at Abberton Reservoir yesterday. 😍
The cutest wee Great Mullein I ever did see. 💛 At Essex Wildlife Trust Abberton Reservoir. #WildflowerHour
October 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The cutest wee Great Mullein I ever did see. 💛 At Essex Wildlife Trust Abberton Reservoir. #WildflowerHour
For #WildFungiHour, a Scarlet Waxcap in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist, Shirley. #WildflowerHour
October 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
For #WildFungiHour, a Scarlet Waxcap in the churchyard of St John the Evangelist, Shirley. #WildflowerHour
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We’re having a bit of fun tonight for #WildflowerHour, have you seen any beautiful grassland fungi this week? If you have please show us your pics and let’s celebrate with a #WildFungiHour 😍
I don’t know about you but I’ve seen lots of fungi this week, shall we have a #WildFungiHour tomorrow for #WildFlowerHour & celebrate all those wonderful diverse grasslands that ‘flower’ in the autumn too! All the wild blooms that you’ve spotted in the last week are welcome too of course! See ALT ⬇️
October 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We’re having a bit of fun tonight for #WildflowerHour, have you seen any beautiful grassland fungi this week? If you have please show us your pics and let’s celebrate with a #WildFungiHour 😍
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I don’t know about you but I’ve seen lots of fungi this week, shall we have a #WildFungiHour tomorrow for #WildFlowerHour & celebrate all those wonderful diverse grasslands that ‘flower’ in the autumn too! All the wild blooms that you’ve spotted in the last week are welcome too of course! See ALT ⬇️
October 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I don’t know about you but I’ve seen lots of fungi this week, shall we have a #WildFungiHour tomorrow for #WildFlowerHour & celebrate all those wonderful diverse grasslands that ‘flower’ in the autumn too! All the wild blooms that you’ve spotted in the last week are welcome too of course! See ALT ⬇️
Delighted to spot several clumps of Blue Fleabane, Erigeron acris, on the grass bank outside my office as I left work this evening. 😍
October 22, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Delighted to spot several clumps of Blue Fleabane, Erigeron acris, on the grass bank outside my office as I left work this evening. 😍
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Nottingham Catchfly in flower this week on Dungerness RSPB reserve #wildflowerhour
October 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Nottingham Catchfly in flower this week on Dungerness RSPB reserve #wildflowerhour