Sound up for a frog chorus...
#signsofspring
#frogs
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Sound up for a frog chorus...
#signsofspring
#frogs
A common frog half submerged in a pondweed filled pool of water
A common frog floating in a pondweed filled pool with pikes of frogspawn in front of it
Five common frogs facing away from.the camera as they float in a pondweed filled pool
A common frog floating in a pondweed filled pool
Last week, just the toads and newts had turned up to this woodland pond near home. This week it had well and truly been taken over by spring's returning frogs. It was a proper pool party and a joy to behold, both in sight and sound
#amphibians
#frogs
#signsofspring
It’s time for NatureScot to stop licensing the Guga hunt.
Wild Life Drawing Online: Toads & Frogs 🎨🐸
17th March @7pm
Book now 🎟️ wildlifedrawing.eventcube.io/events/93322/wild-life-drawing-online-toads-frogs/
Illustrator Jennie leads this relaxed drawing class, while PTES amphibian expert Dr Silviu Petrovan shares insights into frogs and toads as you draw.
The "Why can't the Green party stay as a narrow niche party we can safety ignore?" Is becoming quite a popular genre of article.
Mental health conditions are overdiagnosed, Streeting says
Migration, voter fraud and climate change - Farage's claims fact- -checked
The Tory 'power stance'
Violence against women and girls This article iS more than 2 months old Badenoch accused of making 'deeply inaccurate claims about violence against women Tory leader says Labour should focus on migrants 'from cultures that don't respect women' rather than tackling misogyny in schools
Was asked to appear on the radio, to discuss Zack Polanski's previous job of offering hypnotherapy for breast enlargement
While unavailable for this obvious hit piece, if you're legit worried about 'politicians saying/doing things that aren't evidence based', there are far more prominent examples
Bumblebee on a yellow dandelion flower
Dandelions are starting to appear! They’re a vital source of early nectar for bumblebees, butterflies and other insects - and birds feed on the seeds. So please let them grow!
More tips to help nature:
www.littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/5-t...
Good news! Bid to ban Guga Hunt in Lewis will go before next parliament
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2592783...
It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.
Meanwhile over on Twitter everyone is losing their mind over a change to the design on the banknotes that they haven't used in six years.
#GreenMSP Ariane Burgess @ariane-burgess.bsky.social has renewed her call for a pause on new #SalmonFarms after a Scottish Government minister admitted salmon mortality is “too high”
greens.scot/news/time-to...
A short bit of footage, as well...
Black and yellow striped buff-tailed bumblebee queen sitting on a leaf
Black and yellow striped buff-tailed bumblebee queen sitting on a leaf
The queens are back! This lovely lady is my first buff-tailed bumblebee queen of the year. She was out and about yesterday looking for a nest hole
#signsofspring
#insectsmatter
This is appalling. And not just because it's in the Cairngorms National Park.
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/03/11/g...
Horse welfare must come first. Stay away, refuse to bet, and help end this needless death toll.
https://leagueacs.co.uk/cwEGo
This week marks the start of the Cheltenham Festival, but behind the excitement is a grim reality.
Animal Aid’s annual report shows that in 2025 alone, 254 horses died due to racing, including Springwell Bay and Corbetts Cross at last year’s festival.
This is very good
(Whatever you do, don't use Grammarly)
www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
Fucking yes. So so much.
Jacob Rees Mogg asks why hunt sabateurs need to cover their faces - a must watch...
youtu.be/HtSKOHa7Xak?...
Just suppose this was a Tory plan. Or imagine that Margaret Thatcher had come up with the notion at the time of the miner's strike.
But it's now a *Labour* government that proposes to abolish an 800 year old human right.
We mustn't sleepwalk into this...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A photo of a toad I met while gardening a few summers ago. Look at his beautiful coppery eyes!
Bow down before your local toad today and respect his supreme leathery authority. There is no time to waste.
A rice pouch with the label “RICE MEDLEY”.
I just opened this, and it played Jesus Christ Superstar, Any Dream Will Do and Don’t Cry For Me Argentina.
Yes waiter, I'll have a cup of tea, a scone, and if it's not too much trouble, perhaps some precedented times?
A new report from wildlife charity Buglife reveals that pesticides from common flea and tick treatments are now widespread in rivers across Britain and may be contributing to major declines in freshwater invertebrates bit.ly/4b1Pu50
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Thank you! Such a lovely spring herald 😍
🙂 such a glorious sunshine flower!
Blackthorn blossom on sloe tree, Devon
Thicket of blackthorn blossom #Devon #WildflowerHour
Two half open bright yellow flowers of coltsfoot amongst dried grass
Saw my first coltsfoot of the year today, always a much anticipated sighting
#wildflowerhour
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
My god.
