I heard someone talking on the radio this morning about leaving #dog hair out for #birds to use in their nests

*If pets have been treated with certain flea treatments, this could kill the chicks*

Now seems a good time to repost this article 👇

#neonicotinods

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Had fun counting garden birds this weekend? 🌿🐦 Join BTO’s Garden BirdWatch and record your visitors weekly! See your garden wildlife change through the seasons and help us learn more about garden ecosystems.

bto.org/gardenbirds

#GardenBirds #Birdwatching

Could you grow breakfast for a bumblebee? Plants that produce nectar-rich flowers in winter and early spring are a vital source of food for pollinators when they emerge from hibernation.
Ideas for plants to grow: bit.ly/3u5JoyY
#nature #biodiversity

Help bring a Library of Things to your area. This is what we need to kick-start a circular, zero waste economy. Let's get this done in 2025:

www.libraryofthings.co.uk/add-new-peti...

8 easy ways to get micro-rewilding in your garden or local area:
🐞 Let the grass grow
🐝 Ditch the poison
🍃 Embrace some mess
🌳 Plant trees
🌿 Scrub-up
🌻 Plant with nature in mind
🐸 Go wild for water
🌱 Look after the soil
🐾 More: bit.ly/2P4TYBQ
#biodiversity #nature #wildlife

If you care about the future of the NHS & you see this on Boxing Day, please could you share this?

If we want privatisation to be removed from the NHS, NHS campaigners like me have a *lot* of work to do next year and…I’d just like to see if people care enough about this for our campaigning to work…

My February beginners' botanical illustration & mental health w'shop is now open.

I'll teach you:
✒️🌿How to break plants down into simple shapes & add shading
🧠How time spent creatively improves mental health

Limited spaces. Earlybird price expires 1 Jan:

workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳

Please don't turn your lawn into plastic. Plastic grass reduces food & shelter for wildlife such as bees & butterflies; has a high carbon footprint; sheds micro-plastics which wash into our rivers and seas. Create a wildlife-friendly space instead. More bit.ly/3wE67P8 🐝

The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages...

8. Little walnut (Bulgarian)
7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese)
6. Thumbling (Finnish)
5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish)
4. Fence-master (Hebrew)
3. Druid bird (Irish)
2. Mouse-brother (Faroese)
1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

This evening at 8pm UK time I’ll be putting the last of my ‘25 botanical calendars in my Etsy shop (silverpebble). I design my photos using recent research to move your brain away from fight or flight by just looking at them. Small print run, dispatched by 🎄. Others sold out v. quickly 🌿

Really looking forward to this :)

"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."

Read that again: **116** times.

Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...

Thank you for sharing this. It was a really interesting and thought provoking listen. Has definitely made me reconsider feeding and also extra motivation to get put and plant some more shrubs this winter

Ten thousand 🙏 to everyone who has signed our petition to ban driven grouse shooting!

The Govt will now have to respond.

But we're not finished yet - we want a parliamentary debate and for that we need 100,000 signatures.

Can you help us reach our target?

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

I would like you, please, to sign this petition to ban driven grouse shooting. The first under a Labour government.

10k signatures gets a government response, 100k a debate in Westminster parliament. UK residents & UK citizens living abroad can sign.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...