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Sal Hunter

@boggysal

Conservation volunteer for a number of Peak District organisations. Own my own bit of soggy bog. Peatlands and wetlands.

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Great news, well done Save Danes Moss

05.03.2026 09:04 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Better than an Amazon delivery 😁 #sphagnum #peatlands @beadamoss.bsky.social

02.03.2026 12:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Decided not to bother trying to measure this one yesterday 😁

25.02.2026 08:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Creating a fire break at the top of my bog, protection from a busy layby. Spotted a post with 3 owl pellets underneath, need to get the trail camera set up 😁

10.02.2026 09:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Determined not to binge watch, I remember the sadness after the final detectorists.

10.02.2026 09:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Boggy Ice sculptures . Very atmospheric with the fog yesterday morning.

05.02.2026 09:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Happy #worldwetlandsday I'm looking forward to another year of berries, bugs, waders, bats, grasses, flowers, predators, chirpers, buzzers...... These often overlooked areas have so much to offer

02.02.2026 09:11 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Saving strands of sphagnum moss from the used paper around the plugs. The #peatlovers equivalent of panning for gold 😁

03.11.2025 10:54 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Another new Tracking the Colour of #Peatlands site at Clough Moor, Goyt Valley, UK

#PeatColours
@boggysal.bsky.social

02.09.2025 15:03 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Vast areas of peatland destroyed since peat ban announced exactly 3 years ago | The Wildlife Trusts It has been three years since the UK Government announced that it would ban the sale of peat for use in the amateur gardening sector, yet there is still no sign of legislation to enact the ban.

Saddening to hear, but not surprising.

30.08.2025 18:40 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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Common Twayblade by the side of a busy road #wildflowerhour

23.06.2025 05:57 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Eoghan's Irish Rainforest
Eoghan's Irish Rainforest YouTube video by Eoin Reardon

Eoghan's Irish rainforest

42k views (and counting) in 6 days!
youtu.be/EavXzC_y3NM?...

01.06.2025 05:34 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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Clouds, curlew and cottongrass @curlewaction.bsky.social

28.05.2025 18:18 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘πŸΌsent

07.05.2025 14:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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@curlewaction.bsky.social sadly the fire ignored the sign πŸ˜₯ Goyt Valley

02.05.2025 20:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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A sad #FingerpostFriday from the Goyt Valley πŸ˜₯ #moorlandfires

02.05.2025 20:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Man sets off on Nidderdale walk dressed as a curlew Matt Trevelyan made the Eurasian curlew costume out of polystyrene and bamboo.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
What a brilliant thing to do 😁#worldcurlewday

21.04.2025 07:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great to be able to watch a snipe, usually I just see it flying off in a hurry

20.04.2025 21:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love these, and of course the preferred flower of the orange tip butterfly to lay eggs on. However HighPeak council massacre them every year in late April in the early stages of the butterfly life cycle. But it's ok, they adhere to nomow May πŸ€¦πŸΌβ€β™€οΈ

20.04.2025 20:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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@wildflowerhour.bsky.social beautiful bog rosemary just starting to flower, #wildflowerhour challenge tiny flowers

20.04.2025 20:06 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

56 wow! Thought I'd done well at 21!

06.04.2025 09:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Trays of peat-free plants in a nursery

Trays of peat-free plants in a nursery

Given the unequivocal need for a ban on the use of peat in the horticulture industry, it is very disappointing to see this news released yesterday by the Royal Horticultural Society www.rhs.org.uk/advice/peat/...

#PeatFree #Horticulture

πŸ“· Charles Warner

01.04.2025 15:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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World Curlew Day Celebration Join us to celebrate World Curlew Day with a series of talks and the unveiling of our new mural in Stroud!

We're excited to unveil our new mural by ATM Street Art on World Curlew Day, April 21, at Lansdown Hall in Stroud from 4pm.

Join us for a series of talks, interactive activities, and stands with Curlew Action, WWT, ATM Street Art, and Gloucestershire Naturalists’ Society.

Get your tickets now:

25.03.2025 11:00 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Wonderful news.

21.03.2025 18:49 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us for a workshop: #Peatland Resilience Under a Changing Climate: Place, Policy and Practice!

πŸ—“οΈ: May 6 2025 10:00-17:00
πŸ“: @britishecologicalsociety.org HQ in London
πŸ’»: online attendance available

More details and tickets here: www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/peat...

Please RT!

12.03.2025 16:33 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 7
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A pair of confused Egyptian geese on my walk back from the Soil exhibition at Somerset House

13.03.2025 10:35 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
River in spate in the background. Four headshots of speakers for an upcoming water research seminar in the foreground.

River in spate in the background. Four headshots of speakers for an upcoming water research seminar in the foreground.

Have you signed up for our free #WaterResearch webinar on 26 March? Hosted by the IUCN UK Peatland Programme and the Environment Agency, this two-hour webinar will focus on the importance of peatland #Hydrological function.

More info tinyurl.com/ctdy6bzs

#Peat #KnowledgeExchange #Webinar

06.03.2025 10:07 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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A nugget of the purest green. 5,000 sphagnum plugs now planted on my bog with a little help from my friends 😁

05.03.2025 18:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Creating scrapes for the wading birds who visit the moors to breed in the summer. Also helps break up the dominant purple moor grass. #PeatlandsandWetlands

20.02.2025 09:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Brilliant 😊

13.02.2025 09:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0