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Today's @theguardian.com country diary by Susie White, on one of my favourite moths...

#countryidairy #naturewriting
Country diary: The muted beauty of moth-trapping in November | Susie White
Allendale, Northumberland: It’s not too late to set the trap for some wonderful species – not least the remarkable angle shades moth
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 AM
nicwilson.bsky.social
In today's @theguardian.com country diary, I'm hunting for the county's first ever recorded wild plant along the same the road where it was spotted by the father of British botany, William Turner, in 1548.

#naturewriting #countrydiary
Country diary: Red-hot spindle sets the hedgerow ablaze | Nic Wilson
Braughing, Hertfordshire: This fiery plant is one of the most startling sights of autumn – and it has a place in history in this county
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
drmjwarren.bsky.social
Bird place-name of the day 109: RAMRIDGE (lost place, somewhere in Devon parish of Holcombe Burnell: www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/Resu... ). OE hremn + hrycg. ‘Ravens’ ridge’. #birdsandplace #naturewriting
Common raven
November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM
lukaslarge.bsky.social
Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #MycoBookClub
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FUNGAL KIND, IN PURSUIT OF REMARKABLE MUSHROOMS By RICHARD FORTEY, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF A CURIOUS BOY
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
lukaslarge.bsky.social
Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #MycoBookClub
Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe THE MOST COMPREHENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED BOOK ON THE SUBJECT THIS CENTURY By ROGER PHILLIPS
November 11, 2025 at 6:29 AM
billbowbaggins.bsky.social
Trying a reset when it comes to cameras and photography.

I want to take better pictures of birds. How's it going? Dunno 😅

billbowbaggins.substack.com/p/photograph...

#birds #birding #naturewriting 🪶
November 8, 2025 at 7:25 PM
drmjwarren.bsky.social
Really looking forward to this, with @guyshrubsole.bsky.social, next Thursday (13th Nov). Come and join us for an evening of birds, place and belonging. #Crediton #naturewriting
thebookery.bsky.social The Bookery, Crediton @thebookery.bsky.social · 3d
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🐦‍⬛ We can't wait to welcome @drmjwarren.bsky.social to The Bookery this coming Thursday to discuss his new book, The Cuckoo’s Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place, in conversation with environmental campaigner and author Guy Shrubsole! 🧵 ⬇️
November 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
lukaslarge.bsky.social
Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #MycoBookClub
Morels of Europe By Philippe CLOWEZ & Pierre-Arthur MOREAU Cap Régions Éditions
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
rkphotographic.bsky.social
“Spiorad Àird nam Murchan is a journey—where silence speaks and light becomes language.”

Sharing highlights ahead of new writing this tonight at 8pm.

Revisiting part 13:

🔗 www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/9/...

#ScottishHighlands #CreativeJourney #LandscapePhotography #NatureWriting
#Soundscapes
Spiorad Àird nam Murchan: The Sound of Ardnamurchan
Explore the spirit of Ardnamurchan through its land, sea, silence, and soundscape —an immersive journey into Scotland’s wild western edge
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November 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
jenratcliffe.bsky.social
"In the darkness one may touch fires from the earth itself. Sparks fly round one's feet as the nails strike rock, and sometimes, if one disturbs black ooze in passing, there leap in it minute pricks of phosphorescent light."

Nan Shepherd - the living mountain on walking in the dark

#NatureWriting
November 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
jenratcliffe.bsky.social
I wait too long under vanilla smoked clouds, then turn. For two seconds the sound of tinsel, then mass dropping of pins before rain can finally be seen on the water. Straight and speedy. Making a silver plait as run off twists into stagnant canal. The world is gloriously drenched.

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November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
lukaslarge.bsky.social
Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #MycoBookClub
GEASTRACEAE (BASIDIOMYCOTINA) MORPHOLOGY, ECOLOGY, AND SYSTEMATICS WITH SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON THE NORTH EUROPEAN SPECIES BY STELLAN SUNHEDE SYNOPSIS FUNGORUM 1 FUNGIFLORA - OSLO - NORWAY
November 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
drmjwarren.bsky.social
Still in Devon, bird place-name of the day 108 is KIGBEARE. OE ca + bearu. ‘Jackdaw wood’. #birdsandplace #naturewriting
Jackdaw OS map showing Devon village of KIGBEARE.
November 6, 2025 at 7:07 AM
noswpod.bsky.social
Golden leaves that sheltered me during the summer heat now rest upon the same still waters that carry me.
Hawthorn leaves stream upon slow wind eddies that I am unable to feel.
A squirrel looks down at Maggie.
My boots slide on mud.
Towpath tales.

#ukcanals #naturewriting #DailyNature
A gloriously golden coloured ball tree blazes in the light of a low western sun. Rafts of leaves lie on the mirrored waters that reflect the blue sky. A muddy towpath follows the line of the canal to the left. Maggie (black and white dog) sniffs the narrow grass that lies between towpath and canal.
November 9, 2025 at 9:46 AM
rkphotographic.bsky.social
“Weathered posts stand like sentinels—lines of memory etched across Ardnamurchan’s crofts.”

Sharing highlights from Spiorad Àird nam Murchan ahead of new writing Sunday at 8pm.

🔗 www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/8/...

#Ardnamurchan #CroftingLife #LandscapePhotography #NatureWriting
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
rkphotographic.bsky.social
“Silence here is not absence—it is composition, a score written in wind and water.”

Sharing highlights from Spiorad Àird nam Murchan ahead of new writing Sunday at 8pm.

Revisiting part 9:

🔗 www.rkphotographic.com/blog/2025/8/...

#Soundscape #QuietPlaces #NatureWriting #SpiritOfPlace #DeepTime
Portuairk, West Ardnamurchan.
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
dundeebirding.bsky.social
stonefactionbirding2014.blogspot.com/2025/11/1453...

I wasn't really in the mood but I forced myself to walk out to Balmossie.

#naturewriting #BirdingScotland
1453 : Expectations Exceeded (22/10/25)
stonefactionbirding2014.blogspot.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
dundeebirding.bsky.social
stonefactionbirding2014.blogspot.com/2025/11/1454...

A wee look at City Quay and the Tay.

#naturewriting #BirdingScotland
1454 : City Quay Saturday (25/10/25)
stonefactionbirding2014.blogspot.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 PM
lukaslarge.bsky.social
Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky #MycoBookClub
MUSHROOMS AND TOADSTOOLS OF BRITAIN & EUROPE Volume 1 By Geoffrey Kibby Over 650 species illustrated in colour. Third edition
November 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
nicwilson.bsky.social
Seeing the familiar from a new autumnal angle in today's @theguardian.com country diary by @nicolawriting.bsky.social.

#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: The strange familiarity of moving a mile away | Nicola Chester
Inkpen, Berkshire: With autumn in full swing, I walk the local area from my new centre, seeing farmhouses and woodland from fresh angles
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
nicwilson.bsky.social
Oysters making a comeback in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Mark Cocker.

#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: Pearls of the ocean that might just return to British shores | Mark Cocker
Holkham, Norfolk: A local company is attempting to revive not just European flat oysters, but a whole wealth of species on a nearby seabed
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
wanderstruck.blog
pine sap
tenderly the old wolf
licking his wounds

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#dailyhaikuprompt (pine sap) #haiku #poetry #writing #naturewriting

📸 | Julius Sergius von Klever
Oil painting of a wolf on a snowy trail through the woods lit by a setting sun
November 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
mrtoads.bsky.social
Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you’ve shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews,

#Books #Nature #Naturewriting
#naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
Monarch caterpillar, hatching pupa, and adult, on the cover of Nature Program: Metamorphosis, from the National Audubon Society Metamorphosis, by AB Klotts NOT Metamorphoses, by Ovid - if you bought this thinking it was that, then, .. oh - too late.
November 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
rwpickard.bsky.social
Folks in British #naturewriting circles: some time ago there were skeets about who to read who wasn't Callum Robinson. I've just finished Ingrained (it was good enough, but), and I've been unable to find those old skeets. Anyone else got them? #booksky
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 AM
mrtoads.bsky.social
Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you’ve shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews,

#Books #Nature #Naturewriting
#naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
The Birdwatchers Companion For those quiet summer afternoons when the birds are drowsing.. The Birdwatcher's Companion, by Malcolm Tait and Olive Tayler A quote by Bill Oddie to encourage those who are about to take the field..
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 AM