Fight For Nature

Happy 99th Birthday to the greatest nature hero of all, Sir David Attenborough! 💚

A snow covered lawn leads up to a forest with tall thin trees that are all covered in snow

A winter scene to soothe your timeline.

Photo of a small crab from NOAA’s social media. It’s covered in spikes

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

Blue spiky flowers can’t remember their name

Blue Spanish bluebells

Dark blue delphinium

Blue morning glory

Did someone mention blue Monday? Have some blue flowers in my garden to make you smile instead 🌱

A photograph of a pair of slugs, which have veins on their bodies that resemble the veins of leaves.

Did you know New Zealand and other south-west Pacific islands have LEAF-VEINED SLUGS?!

Unlike their omnivorous European relatives, these unique leaf-mimicking slugs eat only fungi. They breathe mainly through the skin of the back, which is kept moist by secretions passing along the many grooves! 🧪

Green hawthorn hedge against a blue sky

If you can, please plant a wildlife hedge instead of building a fence! It could help hedgehogs, hoverflies, bats, bumblebees, mice, moths, butterflies, blackbirds, frogs, fieldfares, solitary bees, squirrels...
Here’s how: bit.ly/40YAjG7
#nature #biodiversity

This hoverfly can be found in Southern Europe. If you get close enough it is easy enough to identify with its yellow and black striped eyes.

If you spend any time in southern Europe next spring or summer look out for this amazing hoverfly, the Band-eyed Dronefly. Any ideas why it evolved eyes like this? I would like to know.

Early winter berry palette, for the possible dopamine it might trigger in your brain. The colour of spindle berries (bottom rightish) never seems quite real...

Three large Wax Cap mushrooms, one large, two small. They have bright, almost glowing scarlet caps and orange stems. They are growing close together, touching, from ground covered in old, dead, dark-colored leaves. They’ve pushed the leaves up a bit

A little brightness in the gloom ❤️🧡✨
#FungiFriends
#Mushroom

If you are against burning vast areas of land, + illegally persecuting raptors, so that a handful of toffs can slaughter grouse, please sign below...

#fungifriends

Don't forget to think of the birds and other wildlife in this cold wintry weather.

Blackbirds, and other birds in the thrush family (like this gorgeous Fieldfare) go mad for apples!

And all wild life needs water...

#birds #wildlife #nature #winter #snow 🪶🌿

Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is the Scaup, the UK’s rarest breeding duck! 🦆

Numbers build in winter as birds arrive from Iceland and Scandinavia, gracing our coastal waters.

Look for their striking plumage and rounded heads as they dive in search of mussels & crustaceans.

Happy Thursday BlueSky! 💙💙

A tropical butterfly, the Zebra Cross-streak, seen in Mexico a few years ago. Has false head markings on the wings to distract predators.

Zebra Cross-streak seen in the Riviera Maya in Mexico in November a few years ago.

Marasmius hudsonii- Holly Parachute 🍄📷 #FungiFriends

I’d love to be added too please! 😊

Chrysomphalina #fungifriends #forestfloor

Have an amazing day Bluesky! 💙

How about a little bit of Autumn joy today on Bluesky? 😊📸

100,000s of UK ponds have been filled in over recent decades. Even a small pond in your garden could help wildlife like frogs, toads, water boatmen, damselflies, dragonflies, insects, swallows, swifts, hedgehogs & foxes 🐸
More: bit.ly/2kDr2kh

Red soldier beetle on a pale pink umbellifer flower

Can we have a shout-out for the unsung heroes of the insect world? Hoverflies, beetles (like this red soldier beetle), moths and many other insects are important pollinators. To help them (and bees and butterflies), grow nectar-rich flowers and avoid pesticides.
#biodiversity #pollinators #nature

A good place to see Silver-studded Blue butterflies is Prees Heath in Shropshire in June. If you find any freshly emerged specimens you may well see ants in close attendance. The larvae of this butterfly is looked after by the ants until it pupates. #butterflies

Robin, brown bird with red throat and face, perching on a snow covered tree stump

Help wildlife survive in winter:
🌱 Don’t cut back plants: birds feed on some seedheads
💧 Offer fresh water: natural sources may be frozen
🦔 Keep a corner wild for hibernating animals
🍏 Feed the birds: they lose weight quickly when it’s cold
🐝 Grow ivy: it’s great for wildlife!
More: bit.ly/4gcHNKj

Male stonechat on top of a thin branch

🪶 Stonechat balancing act

A last moth for now, the fabulous Elephant Hawk-Moth seen in May, June and July in my garden in Cheshire. They have a wingspan of up to 6cm. Easily attracted to light. #moths

Macro portrait of blue gray gnatcatcher on dry brush top

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher timeline cleanse

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Bumblebee taking a rest stop at a flower, giving me a break to get a shot of her 😄📸 Amazing animals 😊

Good morning all here on Bluesky 😊🙌 Let's start the day with some Nature 📸🤩 #photography

This is so helpful! Thank you! 👍

A tiny butterfly, one of the smallest in Europe, the Grass Jewel. They are so small that they don't look like a Butterfly when they are fluttering around low growing vegetation. It is worth the effort to get a photo.