Dylan
dizzywillowart.bsky.social
Dylan
@dizzywillowart.bsky.social
just a weirdo obsessed with trees, animals and all things nature with a love of making different arts and crafts
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87% of MPs have already been contacted by at least one constituent. Lets make sure MPs hear our voice, please contact yours today. Bats and other aspects of our natural heritage at at risk from badly thought out policy and legislation. act.bats.org.uk/urge-your-mp...
November 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Why grow flowers when you can easily cultivate rosette-like fungal
cultures of Linnemannia sp. from our everyday environment! #FungiFriends
October 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
started drawing my #Christmas cards. I'm late starting but I always struggle to get going as it feels weird to do it before Halloween. #christmascard #carddesigns #holidayseason
October 17, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is the delightful Pallas’s Warbler! 🍂

These tiny visitors from far east are a rare autumn treat for birdwatchers!

Look for their bright yellow eyebrow stripe and lemon rump as they flit through the trees.
October 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
October 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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📣You really couldn't make this up!

On the day Scottish Govt announces it is delaying, for a second time, the implementation of muirburn licensing, this happens...

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Breaking news….’out of control muirburn’ on grouse moor in Cairngorms National Park
You couldn’t make this up if you tried… Breaking News….on the day the Scottish Government announced it was delaying, for a second time, the implementation of muirburn licensing af…
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October 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
After many get nowheres and rejections, but never giving up, I finally have an interview for a job tomorrow. Trying not to be to nervous. #work #employment #beingpositive #notgivingup
October 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Going through old pictures while I hit a #creativeblock and found these. I understand not everyone not likes to paint furniture but I'm not good at having plain. #paintedfurniture #upcycle
October 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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29 'missing' Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015.

Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire

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29 ‘missing’ Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015
Media attention has been drawn to the Yorkshire Dales National Park this week, following the RSPB’s press release on the suspicious disappearance of a satellite-tagged Hen Harrier named &#821…
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October 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Your donations enable us to continue discovering more about bats, take action to protect them, educate people about bats and their environment along with enabling more people to get involved in bat conservation.

Every donation makes a difference: www.bats.org.uk/donate/pledge
October 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
was struggling to sketch today so went for a walk to shake it off and get air and picked myself up some nice oak #leaves to sketch. there's something about oak #trees that I love, I don't know what it is. (even if yesterday I took a falling acorn to the face lol) #oak #fall
October 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
we desperately need more rain though. the local river is really struggling, in some places there's only a few tiny streams of water. people may love the sunshine but rain is necessary in so many ways.
#climatechange #rivers
October 2, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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While saying they want to "preserve nature" the Conservative Party have just pledged to scrap the Climate Change Act.

This makes no sense.

How do more floods, more droughts, and rising temperatures "preserve" nature?

That's what scrapping the Act will lead to.
October 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
small tree with some impressive cones for itself
#trees
October 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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It is with great sadness that we have been informed of the passing of the remarkable Dr. Jane Goodall, age 91, who died of natural causes in Los Angeles, CA while on her speaking tour in the United States.

Photo credit: Marko Zlousic #jane #goodall #JaneGoodall #drjanegoodall #wildlife #nature
October 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Outrageous and unacceptable. La Rioja, Spain now permits hunters to take wolf heads and pelts as trophies. This small Iberian wolf population faces serious danger, and years of protection are at risk. #stoptrophyhunting #protectwolves

bit.ly/4nXh7Rn
Wolf hunters in Spain allowed to keep heads as trophies
La Rioja has become the first region to permit souvenirs from killing the animals, to the disgust of conservationists
www.thetimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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New info from RSPB reveals last known location of this young Hen Harrier was on a grouse moor between Reeth & Redmire on NE side of Yorkshire Dales National Park, before she disappeared in suspicious circumstances.

#RaptorResearch #Wildlifecrime #Ornithology

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More information about the suspicious disappearance of Hen Harrier ‘Sita’ who vanished on a grouse moor in Yorkshire Dales National Park
In May this year I blogged about a young satellite-tagged Hen Harrier named ‘Sita’ who had disappeared under suspicious circumstances from a winter roost site on an unnamed grouse moor …
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October 1, 2025 at 8:40 AM
a tree from the other day, i liked the different textures and stages of things and despite all it had going on, still have leaves. #trees #treetrunk
October 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Gosh, what a mystery. Whatever could have happened to them?

No bodies, no tags, no prosecutions, no accountability, no deterrent. This will continue.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

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Two Golden Eagles ‘disappear’ in south Scotland – Police appeal for information
Press release from Police Scotland, 29 September 2025: APPEAL FOR MISSING GOLDEN EAGLE Detectives are appealing for information after a satellite-tagged golden eagle disappeared in the hills to the…
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September 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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The #NatureForAll 30x30 Art Contest is looking for your submissions! Deadline of 5th October

Students are being asked to imagine a work where 30% of land & water are protected by 2030 💙 natureforall.global/festival-nat...
September 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Autumn arrival alert: the Yellow-browed Warbler has landed! 😍

Once rare, these tiny travellers from Siberia are becoming a more familiar sight as they pass through each autumn.

Weighing just 6 grams, their sharp, distinctive call is usually the first clue they're around.

Have you seen one?
September 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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The tree you climbed as a child. Gone. The Swifts over your town. Gone. The air you breathe. Polluted. The river. Unsafe.

This is the reality of deregulation.

Cutting protections would mean disaster for nature & our economy.

Our CEO sets out why: rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈
September 26, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Also saw a devil's coach horse. Gave me threatening bum wiggle when I first attempted a picture. #beetle
September 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
the Egyptian geese having a little moment this afternoon. They were either doing that or running about chasing each other. #birds #millpond #walk #crawley
September 18, 2025 at 5:52 PM