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Work in conservation, enjoy being outdoors looking for wildlife! 🦋
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Was at a moth night last night, dry weather, and not too bad on the moth front! 😀 Lesser yellow Underwing, Dusty Thorn and Brimstone? #TeamMoth
Light from moth trap on top of black box, were the moths will hide under egg boxes until we take a look, all setting on a white sheet. With table and more light in the background with books and other moth information. Large light brown/ yellow moth, in a pot. Wings open small moth, mainly yellow with grey/brownish markings on wings, in a pot. Small moth, yellowish green, with brown along the wing edges, seating on a blue egg box, which was in the moth trap.
September 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Elephant hawk-moth caterpillar eating himalayan balsam seen today in Ongar #TeamMoth 😁
September 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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One very hairy caterpillar - Sycamore Moth? #TeamMoth
September 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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September 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Spent some time at Church Lane in Epping yesterday and saw loads of Marbled White butterflies, a Ringlet and a Cinnabar moth #Teambutterfly #Teammoth
Two marbled white butterflies in mate A Ringlet butterfly hidden within the green grass. The black and red of a Cinnabar moth.
June 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Happy Summer Solstice! How will you be celebrating the longest day of the year? ☀️

‘Solstice’ comes from the Latin, ‘solstitium’, meaning the stopping or standing still of the sun.

📸: Silver-washed Fritillary - Sarah Womersley
A Silver-washed Fritillary feeding on ragwort with its large wings open, backlit by golden sunshine
June 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Small Tortoiseshell seen today at Bobbingworth NR in Ongar Moreton Bridge #Butterfly #TeamButterfly
Reddish orange in colour, with black and yellow markings on the forefinger and a ring of blue spors around the edge of the wings
June 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Think this is a Southend Marsh #Orchid seen on Bobbingworth NR #Wildflower
Cluster of purple - dark pink flowers on the top of a long green stem with large thin light green leaves along the stem.
May 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Buff-tip #TeamMoth seen in Epping
Buff tip moths look like the end of a stick.
May 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Think this is a Mint Moth? #mothmonday
Small brown moth with yellow patches near the wing tips.
May 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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Two Lime-Hawk Moths were seen in Hertfordshire yesterday. #Moths
Two large hairy moths, one brown and green, the other a little smaller and light and darker brown.
May 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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#Wildflower #Wildflowerhour is this Bush Vetch?
Ladder like green leaves with a deep purple cluster of flowers about half way up the stem.
April 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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April 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Seen at Hickling - Norfolk Wildlife Trust
Lizard resting on a wooden post.
March 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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🦇What should you do if you find a bat in need of help?
🏗 Are you working on a building and found bats?
🏠 Want to put up a bat box but don't know where to start?
🌸 How to make your garden more bat friendly?

Our advice pages cover all the above and more: buff.ly/74fXzfM
March 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Lesser Celandine and many other spring plants coming into full colour!
Bright yellow petal flower, close to the ground with dead brown leaves as the backdrop.
March 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Did you know that London Wildlife Trust has 36 free-to-enter nature reserves across the city?

From tranquil wetlands and rivers to enchanting woodlands and grasslands, each reserve is teeming with wildlife!

Plan your visit today to discover a wilder London 👇
wildlondon.org.uk/nature-reserves
A grey wagtail perched on a mossy stone carrying material in its beak © Ann Playford
March 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Stinking hellebore in Roughtally's Wood North Weald Bassett
Bright green top leaves and flowers with red edges on flowers, with darker green lower leaves in a woodland setting
February 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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So pleased to see the resident Dartford Warbler on Tottenham Marshes in North East London this morning @rspb.bsky.social Such a delightful little bird @britishnatureguide.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2025
February 17, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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These days have the pinching, dull, bone-cold ache of a gate bolt that won’t go home. A snowdrop chill. But the winter thrushes are making a chattery river high in the bare branches, & their departure won’t be long. I still hate to lose winter, even as I long for spring… #naturewriting
February 13, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Get outdoors this spring and help Woodland Trust monitor nature 🔍

They're looking for song thrushes, frogspawn, & blackthorn flowers🌸

By recording nature’s vital signs, we can help keep our planet healthy for wildlife & people🌍

Record your sightings today👇

www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/vitalsigns
A song thrush sits in the trees. Text (in front of yellow leaves illustration) reads "record spring's vital signs"
February 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Is spring just around the corner? This lovely yellow primrose seen today 😊
Pale to deep yellow with darker orange centres. The single flowers have five notched petals. With dark green wrinkly leaves forming a rosette at the plants base.
January 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Projects to clean up rivers & protect communities from flooding could be lost if fines from water companies aren't ringfenced for nature💧

The Government should guarantee pollution fines will be paid into the Water Restoration Fund🪙

Read via @luciemheath.bsky.social 👇

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A torn up newspaper headline reading "Nene and Calder among rivers at risk as Treasury seeks to keep cash for sewage clean-ups". Below is an image of a river during winter with the sun going down
January 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Had a little visitor today who came in on the washing and then put somewhere safer than the airing cupboard!
Closed winged Red Admiral cupped in hands to keep safe from the wind.
January 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Ever thought of building your own wildlife pond?
Subscribe to my YouTube Channel to follow my new series, showing how I have built mine! It's one of the very best things you can do to attract wildlife 🐸😊
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#GwyltHollow
Wildlife Pond Project - YouTube
I have one small pond in the Gwyllt Hollow garden, that was here when I moved in. In 2024, I remodelled it a bit to create more sloping sides as well as plan...
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January 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM