One of two Humming-bird Hawk-moths in the North Pennines yesterday! 🦋

Both were nectaring on Melancholy Thistle along a road verge. Such amazing moths! 🥰

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North-bumble-land Walk complete! 🐝

🐝 1,070 bumblebees counted
🔎 15 species recorded
🥾 84 miles walked

A huge thank you for your support & donations for @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social!

Notebook is full of sightings for @nenature.bsky.social's #NorthEastBeeHunt!

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Final leg of my North-bumble-land Coast Walk! 🐝🥾

Super windy but that doesn’t stop the Moss Carders! 💛

Hoping to reach 1,000 bumblebees by the time I get to Berwick! 📝

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Final section today ➡️ Berwick-upon-Tweed!

🐝 931 bumblebees counted
🔎 15 species recorded
🚶‍♀️ 172,356 steps for bumbles!

Will I reach 1,000 bumblebees? 🙂

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Budle Bay to Beal for North-bumble-land Walk Day 5️⃣!

The Northumberland Coast Path heads inland for this section. I didn't want to leave the sea! But different habitat to explore & two new species for my walk: White-tailed & Gypsy Cuckoo!

🐝 931 bumblebees
🔎 15 species
🚶‍♀️ 172,356 steps
... so far!

Before I set off for my next section yesterday, I re-visited a spot from the rainy day before where I was convinced I had a fleeting glimpse of one of the North East's rarer bumbles...

A few minutes into the search, I had a lovely encounter with a Moss Carder Bee on Kidney Vetch! Buzzing!! 🐝💛

I'm currently walking the Northumberland Coast Path for
@bumblebeetrust.bsky.social! 🐝👣

Along the way, I’m sharing my sightings with
@nenature.bsky.social's #NorthEastBeeHunt 📝🔎

At the end of Day 4 yesterday, so far...

🐝 746 bumblebees counted
🔎 13 species recorded
🚶‍♀️ 132,958 steps for bumbles!

The first of the worker bumblebees!

Tree, Early, Red-tailed and Heath Bumblebees all enjoying Dandelion!

The first workers are teeny! As the season progresses, workers increase in size with more food & helpers in the nest to feed them as larvae 💛

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Hairy-footeds are back! 💛

One of a few males enjoying the Pulmonaria at Alnwick Garden today (in-between hailstone showers!) 🐝

My idea of a fun Friday night out 🐸😂

Counted 121! toads along the wetland footpaths at Gosling Sike yesterday evening

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Nothing quite beats the joy of seeing my first queen bumblebee of the year! 😭💛

A lovely queen Tree Bumblebee, soon followed by Early and Buff-tailed!

After what was such a tough year for bumbles, seeing the first queens out and about fills my heart with so much joy 💛

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A very soggy and windy #NewYearPlantHunt with Cumbria Wildlife Trust volunteers and staff today! 🔎

We wandered locally from our northern office, spotting 17 species in flower before heading back for some warm drinks and festive nibbles!

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26 species in flower from a wander around an industrial estate for the #NewYearPlantHunt 🌱

📸 Meadow Foxtail, Narrow-leaved Ragwort, and a surprise Bee Orchid rosette along the way!

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Covered in little red fibres 🕷️🥚

We have been rummaging through our Bug Bunkers for The Buzz Club with volunteers 🔎

We were amazed to find this little Christmas bauble attached to a leaf!

We think it’s the egg sac of a pirate spider (Ero sp.) 🕷️🥚

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A species high up on my fungi bucket list! 🍄 The temperate rainforest specialist Hazel Gloves! 🤩

Explored a lovely Atlantic Hazelwood in #Argyll earlier this week. While found on Hazel it’s actually parasitic on another fungus, Glue Crust!