Sarah Postlethwaite
@sarahpostlethwaite.bsky.social
Ecologist | Hiker | Raver | Bat botherer | Zoopharmacognosy dabbler | Autistic
Two orchids from two local parks today. Pyramidal (a new record for the park) and (I think as still out and not checked) common spotted x southern marsh hybrid (one of many).
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June 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Two orchids from two local parks today. Pyramidal (a new record for the park) and (I think as still out and not checked) common spotted x southern marsh hybrid (one of many).
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Not speeded up, just a very hungry bat! (Common pipistrelle)
Found trapped in a house this week, and released after a couple of nights captivity in order to put some weight back on.
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Found trapped in a house this week, and released after a couple of nights captivity in order to put some weight back on.
#bats #batcare #pipistrelle
June 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Not speeded up, just a very hungry bat! (Common pipistrelle)
Found trapped in a house this week, and released after a couple of nights captivity in order to put some weight back on.
#bats #batcare #pipistrelle
Found trapped in a house this week, and released after a couple of nights captivity in order to put some weight back on.
#bats #batcare #pipistrelle
Biting stonecrop, Peak District
June 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Biting stonecrop, Peak District
Saw many small tortoiseshells along the Derbyshire lanes today
June 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Saw many small tortoiseshells along the Derbyshire lanes today
A couple of the great plants I’ve seen this week :)
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June 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
A couple of the great plants I’ve seen this week :)
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My favourites from this week - large skipper, marbled white, six-spot burnet & ringlet.
June 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
My favourites from this week - large skipper, marbled white, six-spot burnet & ringlet.
Two of Leicestershires hard rock quarries - Cliffe Hill and Croft. Surprised to see lots of southern marsh orchids in very dry places at Cliffe Hill.
June 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Two of Leicestershires hard rock quarries - Cliffe Hill and Croft. Surprised to see lots of southern marsh orchids in very dry places at Cliffe Hill.
Marbled white, South Notts.
June 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Marbled white, South Notts.
Some of the meadow buttercups in a field near me have interesting white & yellow colour combos
June 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Some of the meadow buttercups in a field near me have interesting white & yellow colour combos
My two wildflower stalking views. Not much of a helper.
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June 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
My two wildflower stalking views. Not much of a helper.
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More of my local park. With pepper-saxifrage, great burnet, knapweed, ox-eye daisy and rough hawkbit.
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June 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
More of my local park. With pepper-saxifrage, great burnet, knapweed, ox-eye daisy and rough hawkbit.
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A few faves this week from my local park (and local wildlife site). Lots of southern marsh, common spotted orchids and their hybrids, plus grass vetchling (1000’s live in the SUDs basin), adder’s-tongue ferns and pepper-saxifrage.
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June 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A few faves this week from my local park (and local wildlife site). Lots of southern marsh, common spotted orchids and their hybrids, plus grass vetchling (1000’s live in the SUDs basin), adder’s-tongue ferns and pepper-saxifrage.
#wildflowerhour
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This narrow-leaved birds foot trefoil really likes the edges of the mown paths on the hill behind my estate. And it had colonised around the SUDs ponds until they started mowing them more frequently as some people are obsessed with everything looking tidy.
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June 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This narrow-leaved birds foot trefoil really likes the edges of the mown paths on the hill behind my estate. And it had colonised around the SUDs ponds until they started mowing them more frequently as some people are obsessed with everything looking tidy.
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Bee orchid on a local roundabout. Last year it was mown before it could flower so this year I placed a hanging basket over it, which has worked well to keep it safe, including from a feral motorcyclist last night, and today it got a new basket.
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June 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Bee orchid on a local roundabout. Last year it was mown before it could flower so this year I placed a hanging basket over it, which has worked well to keep it safe, including from a feral motorcyclist last night, and today it got a new basket.
#orchid
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We have one on our local roundabout (the basket is to prevent it being mown by the council which is what happened last year)
June 5, 2025 at 12:34 PM
We have one on our local roundabout (the basket is to prevent it being mown by the council which is what happened last year)
Large skipper nectaring on bramble on Sharpley Hill, south Notts.
June 5, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Large skipper nectaring on bramble on Sharpley Hill, south Notts.
A woodland and wildflower meadow area
May 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A woodland and wildflower meadow area
With one still showing how they should all be looking.
May 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
With one still showing how they should all be looking.
How the SUDs basins mostly were.
May 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
How the SUDs basins mostly were.
More new build #greenwash in a large urban extension in Northants. Wildflower meadows created but mown into oblivion, or not sown at all, wet grassland mix sown in some of the 11 SUDs basins but left unmanaged so being lost to brambles etc, and the woodland planting missing entirely.
May 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM
More new build #greenwash in a large urban extension in Northants. Wildflower meadows created but mown into oblivion, or not sown at all, wet grassland mix sown in some of the 11 SUDs basins but left unmanaged so being lost to brambles etc, and the woodland planting missing entirely.
Saw a lot of mismatched brickwork on a large new development in Wellingborough. This was my fave.
May 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Saw a lot of mismatched brickwork on a large new development in Wellingborough. This was my fave.
The bee orchid on the roundabout where I live 😍
(The basket is to protect it from being mown by the council which is what happened last year)
(The basket is to protect it from being mown by the council which is what happened last year)
May 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The bee orchid on the roundabout where I live 😍
(The basket is to protect it from being mown by the council which is what happened last year)
(The basket is to protect it from being mown by the council which is what happened last year)
Weld growing on a former station platform (along with lots of tansy), along what is now a heritage railway line in south Notts.
May 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Weld growing on a former station platform (along with lots of tansy), along what is now a heritage railway line in south Notts.
Love this lichen-encrusted signpost on Cannock Chase
May 25, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Love this lichen-encrusted signpost on Cannock Chase
Cowberry, Cannock Chase
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May 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Cowberry, Cannock Chase
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