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Yes! A timely reminder from @littlehen.bsky.social: there are lots of wild plants on our streets & avenues, if we keep a look-out for them.
Need some inspiration?
Check out @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social's #UrbanPlants talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCdC...
Then join our #100Plants2026 challenge!
Need some inspiration?
Check out @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social's #UrbanPlants talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCdC...
Then join our #100Plants2026 challenge!
February 5, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Yes! A timely reminder from @littlehen.bsky.social: there are lots of wild plants on our streets & avenues, if we keep a look-out for them.
Need some inspiration?
Check out @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social's #UrbanPlants talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCdC...
Then join our #100Plants2026 challenge!
Need some inspiration?
Check out @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social's #UrbanPlants talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCdC...
Then join our #100Plants2026 challenge!
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#February may still feel wintry, but look closely…new colours and fresh growth are already emerging!🌱
Tiny blooms, early leaves, and subtle shifts in the landscape are quietly signalling that spring is on its way. Take a look at what's appearing 👇
Tiny blooms, early leaves, and subtle shifts in the landscape are quietly signalling that spring is on its way. Take a look at what's appearing 👇
February 1, 2026 at 9:00 AM
#February may still feel wintry, but look closely…new colours and fresh growth are already emerging!🌱
Tiny blooms, early leaves, and subtle shifts in the landscape are quietly signalling that spring is on its way. Take a look at what's appearing 👇
Tiny blooms, early leaves, and subtle shifts in the landscape are quietly signalling that spring is on its way. Take a look at what's appearing 👇
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Happy Imbolc ! The first Celtic festival of Spring associated with the Irish goddess and Saint Brigid. The first stirrings in the soil. Hold on, the light returns. #imbolc
February 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Happy Imbolc ! The first Celtic festival of Spring associated with the Irish goddess and Saint Brigid. The first stirrings in the soil. Hold on, the light returns. #imbolc
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Welcome to my crib
February 1, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Welcome to my crib
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The redemption process has started. The Salt Path author has a new book coming out this year, so here is the @thetimes.com printing a "balanced" article in which Winn is compared, not unfavourably, to...Bruce Chatwin? And Oliver Sacks? Kapuscinski next? www.thetimes.com/article/ed79...
The Salt Path wars are back — all publishers should be nervous
Raynor Winn’s book about a walk with her dying husband set off a storm about the veracity of non-fiction. Can she win back readers’ trust?
www.thetimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:22 AM
The redemption process has started. The Salt Path author has a new book coming out this year, so here is the @thetimes.com printing a "balanced" article in which Winn is compared, not unfavourably, to...Bruce Chatwin? And Oliver Sacks? Kapuscinski next? www.thetimes.com/article/ed79...
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What I find really shocking, even beyond Winn's literal and literary fraud, is that not only did Penguin do no fact checking originally, it's now putting out her new book as if nothing happened. One of the world’s greatest publishers simply doesn't care about accuracy and can't be trusted.
February 1, 2026 at 8:42 AM
What I find really shocking, even beyond Winn's literal and literary fraud, is that not only did Penguin do no fact checking originally, it's now putting out her new book as if nothing happened. One of the world’s greatest publishers simply doesn't care about accuracy and can't be trusted.
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Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
January 27, 2026 at 9:26 PM
Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE MARK RUSKELL MSP ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
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Butterflies and moths are sounding the alarm. Nature in the UK is in crisis. 🚨
Wildlife and natural places are under pressure from development, climate change and habitat loss - and yet a new report, the Nuclear Regulatory Review, suggests weakening the protections that help keep what remains safe.
Wildlife and natural places are under pressure from development, climate change and habitat loss - and yet a new report, the Nuclear Regulatory Review, suggests weakening the protections that help keep what remains safe.
January 15, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Butterflies and moths are sounding the alarm. Nature in the UK is in crisis. 🚨
Wildlife and natural places are under pressure from development, climate change and habitat loss - and yet a new report, the Nuclear Regulatory Review, suggests weakening the protections that help keep what remains safe.
Wildlife and natural places are under pressure from development, climate change and habitat loss - and yet a new report, the Nuclear Regulatory Review, suggests weakening the protections that help keep what remains safe.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/co...
Continuing support funding for community-led Neighbourhood Plans
Cancelling Neighbouhood Plan NP and technical support grants (via Locality) is a means to stop communities having the ability to foster community empowerment and self-help.
The loss of Neighbou...
you.38degrees.org.uk
September 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/co...
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Did u know? As Autumns & Winters become milder, insects will be on the wing for longer, so it's important to & have something flowering in your outside space, all year round. For Autumn blooms, you can't go wrong with heavenly Helianthus - and I think this Carder Bee agrees with me. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐝
September 2, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Did u know? As Autumns & Winters become milder, insects will be on the wing for longer, so it's important to & have something flowering in your outside space, all year round. For Autumn blooms, you can't go wrong with heavenly Helianthus - and I think this Carder Bee agrees with me. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐝
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Who’s excited for the dazzling display on offer this #autumn? 🍂
From Harebell to Bramble and Scarlet Waxcap to Honey Fungus - it’s going to be a good show!🍄
Lookout for these flowers and fungi this September - and download our FREE spotter sheet👇
https://loom.ly/n_JtLLM
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From Harebell to Bramble and Scarlet Waxcap to Honey Fungus - it’s going to be a good show!🍄
Lookout for these flowers and fungi this September - and download our FREE spotter sheet👇
https://loom.ly/n_JtLLM
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September 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Who’s excited for the dazzling display on offer this #autumn? 🍂
From Harebell to Bramble and Scarlet Waxcap to Honey Fungus - it’s going to be a good show!🍄
Lookout for these flowers and fungi this September - and download our FREE spotter sheet👇
https://loom.ly/n_JtLLM
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From Harebell to Bramble and Scarlet Waxcap to Honey Fungus - it’s going to be a good show!🍄
Lookout for these flowers and fungi this September - and download our FREE spotter sheet👇
https://loom.ly/n_JtLLM
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This is such an important article getting to the heart of the real issue with the Salt Path story. "The way we talk about illness and disability dictates what is possible...There are two options that seem to be available: triumphal recovery or inspirational death" lithub.com/nature-is-no...
Nature is Not Going to Cure You: On Raynor Winn’s Fabricated Memoir
Like many writers, I have been following the unfolding revelations about Raynor Winn and The Salt Path with great interest, and a degree of self-interest. I am a memoirist and nature writer, and I …
lithub.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This is such an important article getting to the heart of the real issue with the Salt Path story. "The way we talk about illness and disability dictates what is possible...There are two options that seem to be available: triumphal recovery or inspirational death" lithub.com/nature-is-no...
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Female Hummingbird Hawk moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) ovipositing all over the hedge bedstraw (Galium album) I planted *for them*. Given this is SW London, there's a chance the caterpillars might survive. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #TeamMoth
August 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Female Hummingbird Hawk moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) ovipositing all over the hedge bedstraw (Galium album) I planted *for them*. Given this is SW London, there's a chance the caterpillars might survive. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #TeamMoth
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Instagram loathes photos like this these days. Why, Instagram? What made you forsake landscapes and sunsets for tiny capitalist films, stolen photos of celebrities, narcissistic bleating and overshown clips from pop culture? Who hurt you?
Almost certainly the best photo I will ever take from an Iron Age Hill fort of the sun setting over an estuary as summer segues majestically into autumn.
August 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Instagram loathes photos like this these days. Why, Instagram? What made you forsake landscapes and sunsets for tiny capitalist films, stolen photos of celebrities, narcissistic bleating and overshown clips from pop culture? Who hurt you?
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It would be difficult for environmentalists to support Labour with this type of thing going on. So, I no longer do. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Angela Rayner hit with legal challenge over datacentre on green belt land
Exclusive: Campaigners complain no environmental assessment made for 90MW Buckinghamshire facility
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
It would be difficult for environmentalists to support Labour with this type of thing going on. So, I no longer do. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I returned to Millpool in VC2 East Cornwall today and took some photos of Mount Olympus St John's-wort in situ on a wall adjacent to a football ground car park, and found several more colonies nearby too. As said before, a 1st for Cornwall, so a nice find.
Hypericum olympicum
Hypericum olympicum
August 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
I returned to Millpool in VC2 East Cornwall today and took some photos of Mount Olympus St John's-wort in situ on a wall adjacent to a football ground car park, and found several more colonies nearby too. As said before, a 1st for Cornwall, so a nice find.
Hypericum olympicum
Hypericum olympicum
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🧵 We live artificial lives surrounded by grey concrete & walls, divorced from the natural world & it’s kaleidoscope of colours - like here on a Waterford beach, in Ireland.
As an artist, I depict the vibrant colours of nature in ink drawings, bringing us closer, as you can see in this thread: [1]
As an artist, I depict the vibrant colours of nature in ink drawings, bringing us closer, as you can see in this thread: [1]
August 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
🧵 We live artificial lives surrounded by grey concrete & walls, divorced from the natural world & it’s kaleidoscope of colours - like here on a Waterford beach, in Ireland.
As an artist, I depict the vibrant colours of nature in ink drawings, bringing us closer, as you can see in this thread: [1]
As an artist, I depict the vibrant colours of nature in ink drawings, bringing us closer, as you can see in this thread: [1]
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Disappearance of two tracked Pine Martens being treated as 'suspicious' - Cumbria Police appeals for information raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/07/d...
Disappearance of two tracked Pine Martens being treated as ‘suspicious’ – Cumbria Police appeals for information
This all sounds horribly familiar. A short article appeared on the BBC News website on 5 August 2025 as follows: The disappearance of two tracked pine martens is being treated as suspicious, police…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
August 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Disappearance of two tracked Pine Martens being treated as 'suspicious' - Cumbria Police appeals for information raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/07/d...
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Illegal persecution of birds of prey is again a major public concern in Yorkshire Dales National Park raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/07/i...
Illegal persecution of birds of prey is again a major public concern in Yorkshire Dales National Park
Regular readers of this blog will know that the Yorkshire Dales National Park is a raptor persecution hotspot, and has been for many years. Hen Harriers, in particular, have been prime targets for …
raptorpersecutionuk.org
August 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Illegal persecution of birds of prey is again a major public concern in Yorkshire Dales National Park raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/07/i...
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Irreplaceable meadows need protecting📢📢
We wouldn’t let historic buildings like the Houses of Parliament get knocked down and built somewhere else. So why would we let ancient meadows?
Join us in asking the government to safeguard these incredible habitats.
#IrreplaceableMeadows
We wouldn’t let historic buildings like the Houses of Parliament get knocked down and built somewhere else. So why would we let ancient meadows?
Join us in asking the government to safeguard these incredible habitats.
#IrreplaceableMeadows
August 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Irreplaceable meadows need protecting📢📢
We wouldn’t let historic buildings like the Houses of Parliament get knocked down and built somewhere else. So why would we let ancient meadows?
Join us in asking the government to safeguard these incredible habitats.
#IrreplaceableMeadows
We wouldn’t let historic buildings like the Houses of Parliament get knocked down and built somewhere else. So why would we let ancient meadows?
Join us in asking the government to safeguard these incredible habitats.
#IrreplaceableMeadows
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So pleased that Radio 4 have the wonderful @waspwoman.bsky.social speaking up for wasps, on today's You and Yours programme!
August 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
So pleased that Radio 4 have the wonderful @waspwoman.bsky.social speaking up for wasps, on today's You and Yours programme!
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Did u know? In the garden, many plants have been pollinated & are setting seed. Seed heads, like Teasel are essential winter food for birds like Goldfinches.There's even a moth larva that uses Teasels to develop in..& they're bloomin' gorge to look at! So, in short,....don't lose your heads.🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐦⬛
July 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Did u know? In the garden, many plants have been pollinated & are setting seed. Seed heads, like Teasel are essential winter food for birds like Goldfinches.There's even a moth larva that uses Teasels to develop in..& they're bloomin' gorge to look at! So, in short,....don't lose your heads.🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐦⬛
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Four adult breeding Hen Harriers 'vanished' from nest sites in Cumbria & Lancashire in May 2025 - silence from police, valiant conservation efforts from RSPB staff & volunteers.
RSPB press release & some questions from me 🔽
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/07/24/h...
RSPB press release & some questions from me 🔽
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/07/24/h...
Hen Harrier chicks fledge with RSPB support after suspicious loss of parent birds
RSPB press release (24 July 2025) Chicks fledge with RSPB support after suspicious loss of parent Hen Harriers. In May 2025, over a period of eight days, four breeding male Hen Harriers suspi…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
July 24, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Four adult breeding Hen Harriers 'vanished' from nest sites in Cumbria & Lancashire in May 2025 - silence from police, valiant conservation efforts from RSPB staff & volunteers.
RSPB press release & some questions from me 🔽
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/07/24/h...
RSPB press release & some questions from me 🔽
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/07/24/h...
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Planning and Infrastructure Bill Clears Commons Despite Wildlife Fears
www.arc-trust.org/News/plannin...
www.arc-trust.org/News/plannin...
Planning and Infrastructure Bill Clears Commons Despite Wildlife Fears
The Planning and Infrastructure Bill passed its second reading in the House of Commons on 25 June and has now progressed to the House of Lords following a final debate in the Commons today.
www.arc-trust.org
July 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Planning and Infrastructure Bill Clears Commons Despite Wildlife Fears
www.arc-trust.org/News/plannin...
www.arc-trust.org/News/plannin...
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We will never forget the support, the arms, the excuses, the empowerment, the cowardice, the cover-ups and the media bias that led to this.
Never.
Never.
July 23, 2025 at 12:52 PM
We will never forget the support, the arms, the excuses, the empowerment, the cowardice, the cover-ups and the media bias that led to this.
Never.
Never.