Mike Savage
@msavagenw.bsky.social
Into green infrastructure & wildlife. Bad birder and now a pensioner too. Hoping to spend more time on 2 wheels.
A smattering from Strathfoyle Greenway this week #WildflowerHour
November 23, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A smattering from Strathfoyle Greenway this week #WildflowerHour
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Dusk at Parkgate is always a treat: Barn Owl, RT Hen Harrier, Merlin, Tawny Owl, 9 Marsh Harrier, Water Pipit, Water Rails, & 5 GW Egret...topped off with a chippy tea! #UKBIRDING #CheshireBirding #WirralBirding youtu.be/x5q8FoD6WPk?...
Barn Owl. Parkgate, Nov 2025 @southliverpoolbirder#barnowl #parkgate #wirral #birds #wildlife
YouTube video by Dan Foy
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November 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Dusk at Parkgate is always a treat: Barn Owl, RT Hen Harrier, Merlin, Tawny Owl, 9 Marsh Harrier, Water Pipit, Water Rails, & 5 GW Egret...topped off with a chippy tea! #UKBIRDING #CheshireBirding #WirralBirding youtu.be/x5q8FoD6WPk?...
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Over £9million raised so far in this 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' to do something truly meaningful for nature on a really large scale. It's absolutely doable. Can you help?
Donate here 👉 www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wildlife
Donate here 👉 www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wildlife
Sir David Attenborough backs bid to buy Rothbury Estate
Wildlife trusts attempt to raise £30m to keep Northumberland's Rothbury Estate from being split up.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Over £9million raised so far in this 'once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' to do something truly meaningful for nature on a really large scale. It's absolutely doable. Can you help?
Donate here 👉 www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wildlife
Donate here 👉 www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #wildlife
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We talk about freedom of choice in transport, but what if that freedom isn’t as equal as it seems?
At our Stormont event, behavioural scientist @ianwalker.bsky.social explored motonormativity — the bias that treats driving as the default and everything else as second-best.
cyclinguk.org/stormont
At our Stormont event, behavioural scientist @ianwalker.bsky.social explored motonormativity — the bias that treats driving as the default and everything else as second-best.
cyclinguk.org/stormont
Freedom to ride: the unconscious bias that’s limiting our transport choices
Northern Ireland Advocacy Lead Andrew McClean reports on our Stormont event where acclaimed environmental psychologist Professor Ian Walker was the keynote speaker: ‘Freedom for all: what does real tr...
cyclinguk.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We talk about freedom of choice in transport, but what if that freedom isn’t as equal as it seems?
At our Stormont event, behavioural scientist @ianwalker.bsky.social explored motonormativity — the bias that treats driving as the default and everything else as second-best.
cyclinguk.org/stormont
At our Stormont event, behavioural scientist @ianwalker.bsky.social explored motonormativity — the bias that treats driving as the default and everything else as second-best.
cyclinguk.org/stormont
Nice to check in on the Tibetan Cherry (Prunus serrula) we planted in Coleraine’s Christie Park 20 years ago…
October 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Nice to check in on the Tibetan Cherry (Prunus serrula) we planted in Coleraine’s Christie Park 20 years ago…
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Fascinating!
A week on from #StormAmy 🌬️ data from our tagged Whooper Swans show both storm assistance & storm displacement. Some birds made rapid migrations, others battled the elements – some out at sea for 55 hrs! As North Atlantic storms grow more frequent, understanding their impact is vital. 🦢 #Ornithology
October 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Fascinating!
Lovely to find Fluted Bird’s Nest Fungus in the garden…
October 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Lovely to find Fluted Bird’s Nest Fungus in the garden…
Finally, thanks to PlantNet ID on the fruits, I’ve identified the shrub the bees love as Eucryphia glutinosa - had though it was Xanthoceras for years but Bob Flowerdew put me right…
September 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Finally, thanks to PlantNet ID on the fruits, I’ve identified the shrub the bees love as Eucryphia glutinosa - had though it was Xanthoceras for years but Bob Flowerdew put me right…
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When hospital grounds are managed for biodiversity. Dalriada Hospital in Ballycastle. Mowed paths leading walkers around the site through swathes of native wildflowers alive with pollinators. Swifts calling in the sky. Therapy.
June 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
When hospital grounds are managed for biodiversity. Dalriada Hospital in Ballycastle. Mowed paths leading walkers around the site through swathes of native wildflowers alive with pollinators. Swifts calling in the sky. Therapy.
Oops! Bit late but found this Early Purple (?) on our drive… Derry, NI
#WildflowerHour
#WildflowerHour
June 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Oops! Bit late but found this Early Purple (?) on our drive… Derry, NI
#WildflowerHour
#WildflowerHour
Field Bindweed? At Ballykelly, Northern Ireland #WildflowerHour
June 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Field Bindweed? At Ballykelly, Northern Ireland #WildflowerHour
#WildflowerHour I’ve not seen this before - bare ground around some of the Yellow Rattle in our minimeadow - because of the dry May? #DontMowLetItGrow
June 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
#WildflowerHour I’ve not seen this before - bare ground around some of the Yellow Rattle in our minimeadow - because of the dry May? #DontMowLetItGrow
Nettle Rust in my Derry garden - first time I’ve seen it…
May 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Nettle Rust in my Derry garden - first time I’ve seen it…
Odd bald Blackbird in St Columb’s Park this morning…
May 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Odd bald Blackbird in St Columb’s Park this morning…
Not seen a display of lilies quite like this before… naturalised near the Slievemore graveyard in Achill, Co Mayo #WildflowerHour
May 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Not seen a display of lilies quite like this before… naturalised near the Slievemore graveyard in Achill, Co Mayo #WildflowerHour
Slightly blurry but we have a flower on the Yellow Rattle in the minimeadow #WildflowerHour
May 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Slightly blurry but we have a flower on the Yellow Rattle in the minimeadow #WildflowerHour
Hoping I haven’t been fooled by this good weather but have set up the tomatoes, cucumbers and aubergines a bit earlier than usual…
Can always fleece them if frosts are forecast…
Can always fleece them if frosts are forecast…
May 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Hoping I haven’t been fooled by this good weather but have set up the tomatoes, cucumbers and aubergines a bit earlier than usual…
Can always fleece them if frosts are forecast…
Can always fleece them if frosts are forecast…
A new one for me, Greater Celandine? #WildflowerHour
May 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
A new one for me, Greater Celandine? #WildflowerHour
Surprising find in the veg garden… beside some cardboard waiting to go in compost…
April 25, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Surprising find in the veg garden… beside some cardboard waiting to go in compost…
Lidl tomatoes already forming flowers!
April 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Lidl tomatoes already forming flowers!
Veg garden starting to shape up… and first asparagus showing :)
April 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Veg garden starting to shape up… and first asparagus showing :)
Enjoying Chronicles of the Sperrins but surely they weren’t ’carved by ice 400m years ago’?
March 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Enjoying Chronicles of the Sperrins but surely they weren’t ’carved by ice 400m years ago’?
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I think of this whenever some conservative finds some supposedly wacky research topic that government grants pay for
(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao
March 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I think of this whenever some conservative finds some supposedly wacky research topic that government grants pay for
Would anyone know - Are these fossil roots? Salema beach, Algarve
March 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Would anyone know - Are these fossil roots? Salema beach, Algarve