Brimstone surging ahead in the sightings chart, followed by Peacock. Nice to see a few Small Tortoiseshells too. www.dorsetbutterflies.com/sightings/re...
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Brimstone surging ahead in the sightings chart, followed by Peacock. Nice to see a few Small Tortoiseshells too. www.dorsetbutterflies.com/sightings/re...
Have a lovely birthday and thanks for all the great posts 🎉💗
Looking for a copy of Urban Flora of Newcastle and North Tyneside but prefer not to use Amazon? 📖🌱
Good news. @nenature.bsky.social are stocking it too:
www.nhsn.org.uk/product/urba...
And I hear it may be appearing in a few other places soon…
Want to discover the magic of moths in your garden? 🌙
Try a wine rope or light sheet setup and see who visits after dark. These nighttime pollinators are fascinating, diverse and easy to spot with just a few household items.
Give it a go and share what you find ✨
From A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, ed. Jane McMorland Hunter.
Thursday #eveningread
Galls of the week are marble galls of one or more species of cynipid wasp causing marble galls on oaks, Quercus spp. How many can you count with exit holes?
Origin of this photo unknown, if you do please let us know.
Poems for Lent (Day 21)
• Mary Oliver •
That's brilliant! We get a similar spectacle during the winter in Parliament Street, York. Such a delight.
Saw my first ever ones in Dorset last April - a wonderful experience!
Drifting off to...
• Sara Teasdale •
"Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement."
~ Albert Camus
Le Moulin de la Galette (1886)
🎨 Vincent Van Gogh
It's launch day! 🎉🌿
Absolutely chuffed to share that Urban Flora of Newcastle and North Tyneside is now available on Amazon.
If you're interested, you can grab a copy here 👉 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1036970124
Mega thanks to @nenature.bsky.social and @bsbibotany.bsky.social for making it happen.
It was such a pleasure to spend a few hours with Guardian Country Diarist Susie White, admiring #pavementplants and other urban treasures in Newcastle’s Ouseburn Valley 🌿
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Magical moths are here. We have teamed up with The Royal Horticultural Society to launch a new booklet celebrating moths and showing how we can help them thrive everday
Day or night, help moths take flight 👉 https://www.wildaboutgardens.org.uk/
#WildAboutGardens
Poems for Lent (Day 16)
'Three Foxes by the Edge
of the Field at Twilight'
🦊🦊🦊
• Jane Hirshfield •
"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."
~ Gustave Flaubert
March (1910) 🎨 Franz Paschinger
From A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year, ed. Jane McMorland Hunter.
Friday #eveningread
Have a restful weekend!
Holly Blue butterfly feeding on forget-me-nots
Speckled Wood butterfly on forget-me-nots
Spring is springing! 🙌
More butterflies are beginning to make an appearance, with the first Holly Blue (Celastrina argiolus) and Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria) of 2026 spotted on 25 February.
📷 Photos from archive: Nigel Ball, Anna Wheeler
Campaigners outside SSE's offices in Glasgow holding a banner which reads: "Stop Berwick Bank"
Today we gathered outside SSE's Glasgow office to urge them to stop the Berwick Bank offshore wind farm.
Together we delivered a petition signed by 12,500 people opposing this damaging project.
@seabirdcentre.bsky.social @n-t-s.bsky.social @mcsuk.bsky.social @scotwildlife.bsky.social
A view of pale yellow daffodil flowers and bright green daffodil leaves among grass, lit up by spring sunshine. In the centre of the picture, (backed by the top daffodil flower) a small black bee, with a long tongue protruding, is flying towards the camera. This is a female Hairy-footed Flower Bee, Anthophora plumipes.
Bright indigo blue Pulmonaria flowers spangled with raindrops, against a background of yellow-green moss and white spotted green Pulmonaria leaves.
Saw my 1st Hairy-footed Flower Bees of the year in London yesterday. The blue Pulmonaria is out ready for them here in my garden in York; fingers crossed we don't have long to wait 🤞🐝 #spring #Anthophora #GardenWildlife
"When anxious, uneasy, and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused."
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Poems for Lent (Day 12)
• John Clare •
A warning to those who go killing the moss
Your Karma will come, because Nature Is Boss
You will also incite The Bryologist’s Curse,
which will make the whole business considerably worse!
From A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, ed. Jane McMorland Hunter
Tuesday #morningread
#3/3portal
Beautiful pictures, and great to capture this behaviour. Crows (and the other Corvids) are awesome!!
View of a park with short green grass, a bare tree in the middle ground and a line of mixed evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs in the distance. The sky is mostly pale grey and white clouds with patches of bright blue.
Large queen Buff-tailed Bumblebee, a furry black bee with 2 golden stripes and a buff-coloured tail, on clusters of small pinkish white flowers (Viburnum tinus).
Pinkish white plum blossom 🌸
View showing a grassy track leading into the distance under a bright blue sky dotted with wispy white clouds. On the left are 3 tall poplar trees, their branches catching the sun. In the distance are a mixture of deciduous and evergreen trees.
Beautiful day for a stroll round Homestead Park. Loads of blossom, bees and birds - Siskin, LTT, Goldfinch, Robin, Wren, Blackbird, Magpie, Stock Dove, and a Peregrine interacting with 2 Buzzards circling overhead. @yorkbirding.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social
Twenty young people from Howdon Community Hub hit the streets this week for a silent disco litter pick, blending environmental action with music and fun.
https://www.nwt.org.uk/news/silent-disco-litter-pick-brings-young-people-together
From A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year, ed. Jane McMorland Hunter.
Saturday #nightread
The very end of February
from A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year, edZ Jane McMorland Hunter
Sunday #morningread
The first day of March!
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Butterfly Conservation's butterflies and moths to see in March: Red Admiral, Orange Underwing, Peacock, Oak Beauty, Brimstone, Dotted Border, Comma, Early Thorn, Small Tortoiseshell
Spring is on its way! Look out for these butterflies and moths in your gardens and local green spaces 🦋🌷
What have you seen recently?