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Tara
@wildtara.bsky.social
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Outdoor explorer, volunteer, ecologist. Easily excited about butterflies 🦋 Constantly distracted by wildlife 🍄🦔🐛🐞🪲🌱 Warwickshire
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A few more fungi finds - Shaggy Inkcap, Snowy waxcap, a Milk ap & maybe a field mushroom 🍄‍🟫 🤔 #fungi
November 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Lunchtime walk around Ryton Pools Country Park. coffee at the cafe, saw the Black sheep being herded & a bit of fungi spotting.
Black sheep herded into a neat pile by the sheepdog Fairy inkcaps in a stump Pumpkins & gourds by the cafe Walking along the autumn paths
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Gingerbread latte season is upon us ! Send a lifeguard! Ones going to sink 😮 #gingerbread walk at Ryton Pools CP!
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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A tiny snail 🐌 aiming high ☺️ Noticed this little gastropod sliding up the patio window on wet morning this weekend. Going places albeit slowly 😬
Looking at a small snail in the middle of the patio door heading upwards. Behind it you can see grass and fields heading down to the coast. Grey blue skies leaking rain drops.
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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On to the final slopes that run down to the railway track today at Harbury Spoilbank north. Another sites grassland management done 🙂 @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social
Looking across and down the slope of the grassland to the hedge on the right which is just before the train track. Several volunteers can be seen taking and cutting the grasslands. A steeper selection of the bank sloping to the left into some scrub. A south facing bank.
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Dustbin-lid jellyfish - Rhizostoma octopus found on the beach at Pendine. South Wales yesterday. #jellyfish
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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A wet day at Laugharne castle. Splashed through the puddles and rain pouring down. Rewarded with a Welsh cake & coffee.
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Great to see my first orchards of the season being planted today 😀🍎 This pictured one is a local variety - Warwickshire Drooper plum 🌳
A young fruit tree with several branches freshly planted. A wooden stake, soft tree tie and biodegradable rabbit guard protect the tree. In the background are several more trees.
November 5, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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We got loads done on our practical work party at Harbury Spoilbank North today! Top team of volunteers 😃 This a a SSSI that we manage for 28 species of butterfly 🦋 @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social
Another section being cut. Views across the site Raking between the anthills Brush cutting the banks
November 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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A Blackening wax cap spotted on the grasslands at Harbury Spoilbank today. #fungi
November 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Autumn walk in the park, loving all the colours & leaves 🍂 Maidenhair tree (Ginkgo biloba) Tulip tree and Yew tree full of berries. #autumn #leaves #trees
November 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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I always love visiting Little Haven nature reserve, something special about it and the way the trees frame the path 🙂
View down the old railway line. Wide path littered with autumnal leaves and fallen apples. Tall trees leaning in over the path some still with green leaves. Blues skies with white clouds filtering through the tree branches.
October 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Today we had good weather for our practical work party at Little Haven. Had a super time cutting and raking around the pond areas 🙂 Blues skies & autumn colours. #volunteer #conservation @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social
Working on the path around the pond which is on the right of the photo. A small wood and metal bench is to the left. Raking the last of the grass & reeds from the main pond which is mainly dry still. The pond is I mother middle and the path runs around the edges. A view down the cutting with hawthorn trees framing the edges of the photo. Leaves and apple on the ground.
October 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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A Peacock butterfly spotted this morning in Warwick. Brightened up my morning no end 😀🦋 #butterflies @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Shepherd’s Purse ❤️ & Flowers for #WildflowerHour
October 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Spotted quite a few Redlead Roundhead fungi on the bark chips below a conifer at Jephson Gardens today. #fungi #wildflowerhour #wildfungihour
October 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Snowy inkcap in a cow pat! #fungifriday
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Looking back along the top path I’ve been cutting. I had my own personal raker today! clearing up my mess ☺️
View along the top path with sections closest uncut but in the distance a volunteer is taking up the cut areas.
October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Busy & productive day brush cutting the wildlife site at Little Haven. Technically I got the easy route - along the top of the former railway cutting. Still my legs are aching now! #volunteer @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social
A view across the top of the former railway cutting, flat grass section that drops off to each side. Trees line the edge of the path.
October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Other moths that stopped by my garden last night- Red-line Quaker, November moth, Red-Green carpet & Turnip moths. #moths #teammoth Southam
November Moth Red-line Quaker Red-green carpet Turnip
October 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Yippee!! They finally came to my garden! Merveille du Jour x 5! #moths #teammoth #green
October 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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I tried the Pitmaston Pine Apple yesterday. Was quite nice but don’t last long 😆 So small! For when you just want a little apple! #apple from Hill Close Gardens, Warwick labeled as 1785, Late dessert, exceptional flavour. #orchards
Small yellow apple held up in front of the kitchen window. Didn’t mention it was small?
October 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Another NFG last night was 2 Narrow-winged Grey (Eudonia angustea) which happily posed for photos. #teammoth #moths
October 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Ooh NF me & Garden - Figure of 8 moth in the garden trap last night 😀 #teammoth #moths #warwickshire @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Stopped to admire this Blue Fleabane while out today as well as take this toad up the bank to the compost piles. #ettington #toad #wildflowers @arc-trust.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Toad on my gloved hand. He looks a bit put out. Blue fleabane flower with my hand as a backdrop. Didn’t pick it.
October 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM