Jill
@bonxie.bsky.social
Birds, Butterflies, Fungi and Photography mainly landscapes.
Dorset
Dorset
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Four new species for Dorset (and a belated one for Britain) are among the highlights of the Dorset Moths Annual Report 2024. Free PDF downland from dorsetmoths.co.uk
#teammoth
@dorsetmoths.bsky.social
@dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
@migrantmothuk.bsky.social
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
#teammoth
@dorsetmoths.bsky.social
@dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
@migrantmothuk.bsky.social
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Four new species for Dorset (and a belated one for Britain) are among the highlights of the Dorset Moths Annual Report 2024. Free PDF downland from dorsetmoths.co.uk
#teammoth
@dorsetmoths.bsky.social
@dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
@migrantmothuk.bsky.social
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
#teammoth
@dorsetmoths.bsky.social
@dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
@migrantmothuk.bsky.social
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
Yellow-browed Warbler, in garden, Rodwell, Weymouth @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Yellow-browed Warbler, in garden, Rodwell, Weymouth @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
Red-backed Shrike from yesterday afternoon, Portland Bill @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Red-backed Shrike from yesterday afternoon, Portland Bill @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
Curlew Sandpiper from the Visiter Centre, Radipole RSPB, Weymouth @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Curlew Sandpiper from the Visiter Centre, Radipole RSPB, Weymouth @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
Ruby Bollette seen in a neighbours front garden, Weymouth, Dorset @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @thedetermin8or.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Ruby Bollette seen in a neighbours front garden, Weymouth, Dorset @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @thedetermin8or.bsky.social
Good morning Thick trunk Tuesday #thicktrunktuesday
August 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Good morning Thick trunk Tuesday #thicktrunktuesday
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Doing moth trapping in the UK this weekend?
Can you help us gather lots of images of moths on egg cartons from your trap?
Help us develop a tool making moth recording easier for more people
Tks! #mothsmateer #teammoth
@richardfoxbc.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
@upperthames.bsky.social
Can you help us gather lots of images of moths on egg cartons from your trap?
Help us develop a tool making moth recording easier for more people
Tks! #mothsmateer #teammoth
@richardfoxbc.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
@upperthames.bsky.social
Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡
At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.
Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.
More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...
#mothsmatter #TeamMoth
At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.
Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.
More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...
#mothsmatter #TeamMoth
August 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Doing moth trapping in the UK this weekend?
Can you help us gather lots of images of moths on egg cartons from your trap?
Help us develop a tool making moth recording easier for more people
Tks! #mothsmateer #teammoth
@richardfoxbc.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
@upperthames.bsky.social
Can you help us gather lots of images of moths on egg cartons from your trap?
Help us develop a tool making moth recording easier for more people
Tks! #mothsmateer #teammoth
@richardfoxbc.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
@upperthames.bsky.social
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Join us today and get your first year of membership for half price!
Your membership ensures our vital pollinators can survive and thrive, preserving the beauty of our natural world for generations to come. 🦋💚
Use code BBC2550 👉 buff.ly/bvFoLRP
📷: Nigel Symington
Your membership ensures our vital pollinators can survive and thrive, preserving the beauty of our natural world for generations to come. 🦋💚
Use code BBC2550 👉 buff.ly/bvFoLRP
📷: Nigel Symington
August 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Join us today and get your first year of membership for half price!
Your membership ensures our vital pollinators can survive and thrive, preserving the beauty of our natural world for generations to come. 🦋💚
Use code BBC2550 👉 buff.ly/bvFoLRP
📷: Nigel Symington
Your membership ensures our vital pollinators can survive and thrive, preserving the beauty of our natural world for generations to come. 🦋💚
Use code BBC2550 👉 buff.ly/bvFoLRP
📷: Nigel Symington
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We’re back! Autumn is starting to get going with plenty of waders in the last few weeks, this week should see the first ‘Scandi Drift’ migrants passing through with high pressure over there and a nice south easterly airflow for the next few day
August 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
We’re back! Autumn is starting to get going with plenty of waders in the last few weeks, this week should see the first ‘Scandi Drift’ migrants passing through with high pressure over there and a nice south easterly airflow for the next few day
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Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡
At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.
Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.
More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...
#mothsmatter #TeamMoth
At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.
Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.
More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...
#mothsmatter #TeamMoth
August 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡
At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.
Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.
More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...
#mothsmatter #TeamMoth
At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image.
Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work.
More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV...
#mothsmatter #TeamMoth
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We are looking for new trustees to join the board @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social - if you or anyone you know might be interested please take a look at the details here
www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/trustee (and please share this!)
www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/trustee (and please share this!)
Trustee | Dorset Wildlife Trust
Dorset Wildlife Trust is governed by a council of trustees elected at the Annual General Meeting. The voluntary role of trustee is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the effectiveness of our or...
www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk
July 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
We are looking for new trustees to join the board @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social - if you or anyone you know might be interested please take a look at the details here
www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/trustee (and please share this!)
www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/trustee (and please share this!)
Just hatched Six spot Burnet, Eight Kings Quarry, Portland
@dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
@dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
@dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
@dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Just hatched Six spot Burnet, Eight Kings Quarry, Portland
@dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
@dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
@dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
@dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
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*IMPORTANT*
Please read & share, it could save you or a loved one from a lifetime of chronic system-wide illness. 🙏❤️
Today I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease.😔
I was bitten by 4 ticks 30 days ago & had a red rash come up around one of the bites, that soon started spreading...
*Continued below
Please read & share, it could save you or a loved one from a lifetime of chronic system-wide illness. 🙏❤️
Today I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease.😔
I was bitten by 4 ticks 30 days ago & had a red rash come up around one of the bites, that soon started spreading...
*Continued below
July 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
*IMPORTANT*
Please read & share, it could save you or a loved one from a lifetime of chronic system-wide illness. 🙏❤️
Today I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease.😔
I was bitten by 4 ticks 30 days ago & had a red rash come up around one of the bites, that soon started spreading...
*Continued below
Please read & share, it could save you or a loved one from a lifetime of chronic system-wide illness. 🙏❤️
Today I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease.😔
I was bitten by 4 ticks 30 days ago & had a red rash come up around one of the bites, that soon started spreading...
*Continued below
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I written to my Labour MP, Lloyd Hutton, to express my frustrating at this by DEFRA, the PM & the Labour government @labouruk.bsky.social @protectthewild.bsky.social
Government officials have approved a fresh wave of badger culling to begin immediately, despite clear opposition from their own chief scientific adviser.
protectthewild.substack.com/p/badger-cul...
protectthewild.substack.com/p/badger-cul...
Badger cull expanded – against advice of own science chief
Government officials have approved a fresh wave of badger culling to begin immediately, despite clear opposition from their own chief scientific adviser.
protectthewild.substack.com
June 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I written to my Labour MP, Lloyd Hutton, to express my frustrating at this by DEFRA, the PM & the Labour government @labouruk.bsky.social @protectthewild.bsky.social
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“Imagine flattening an irreplaceable grade I listed building like the Royal Albert Hall, replacing it with karaoke machines in various towns & then telling the public this is a ‘win-win’ for architecture & music” - brutally accurate analogy from @ruthtingay.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social
Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals
Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn
www.theguardian.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:55 AM
“Imagine flattening an irreplaceable grade I listed building like the Royal Albert Hall, replacing it with karaoke machines in various towns & then telling the public this is a ‘win-win’ for architecture & music” - brutally accurate analogy from @ruthtingay.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social
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WTF? If this Government can’t even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close …
Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
WTF? If this Government can’t even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close …
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I'd appreciate it if this could be re posted by as many people as possible to highlight this greedy firm. Apparently if your Husband is rushed to hospital and you get there urgently (following the ambulance) you still have to read the conditions on the sign & appeal failed. @england.nhs.uk use them
May 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
I'd appreciate it if this could be re posted by as many people as possible to highlight this greedy firm. Apparently if your Husband is rushed to hospital and you get there urgently (following the ambulance) you still have to read the conditions on the sign & appeal failed. @england.nhs.uk use them
Dotterel feeding and showing well on grass to the right of Chesil Visitor Centre, Portland @birdguides.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetbirdtours.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Dotterel feeding and showing well on grass to the right of Chesil Visitor Centre, Portland @birdguides.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetbirdtours.bsky.social
Hoopoe in horse paddock field at end of Haylands, Portland @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Hoopoe in horse paddock field at end of Haylands, Portland @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social
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Songbirds being killed by pesticides found in pet fur flea treatments www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Songbirds being killed by pesticides found in pet fur flea treatments
Exclusive: Chemical in treatment for pet fleas and ticks is found in nests of blue and great tits, killing chicks
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Songbirds being killed by pesticides found in pet fur flea treatments www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Please sign and share the Parliamentary petition to protect #sphagnum and natural #CarbonCaptureandStorage #blanketbog by banning #windfarms on protected #peatland in England petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Infrastructure construction is one of the biggest threats to #wetland #biodiversity.
February 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Please sign and share the Parliamentary petition to protect #sphagnum and natural #CarbonCaptureandStorage #blanketbog by banning #windfarms on protected #peatland in England petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Infrastructure construction is one of the biggest threats to #wetland #biodiversity.
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Sadly, this fantastic Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm f/4 IS PRO lens has to go. For further details, please visit www.richardlewington.co.uk Repost appreciated
February 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Sadly, this fantastic Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm f/4 IS PRO lens has to go. For further details, please visit www.richardlewington.co.uk Repost appreciated
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Please Welcome Butterfly Conservation to Blue Sky. @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social @bcyorkshire.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social
Northern Brown Argus (Aricia artaxerxes) – Closely related to the Brown Argus but restricted to Scotland and northern England. Today, 80% of the UK population of Northern Brown Argus is found in Scotland and half of that is in the Borders, Dumfries and Galloway.
📷: Iain H Leach
📷: Iain H Leach
January 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Please Welcome Butterfly Conservation to Blue Sky. @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social @bcyorkshire.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social
Glossy Ibis, Curlew and Oystercatcher in field viewed from Fleet Lane, Weymouth #dorsetbirdclub
January 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Glossy Ibis, Curlew and Oystercatcher in field viewed from Fleet Lane, Weymouth #dorsetbirdclub