Bluebells are out 😍
#Bluebells
#Wildflowers
#Woodland
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Bluebells are out 😍
#Bluebells
#Wildflowers
#Woodland
My favourite early spring moth, the emperor moth ✨️
It's a Northern Shoveler ☺️
They are 🥹
Yeah! They have a cool comb like feature to filter when feeding!
To the best of my knowledge, we broke the 🚨 world longevity record 🚨 for Mediterranean Gull on Saturday, with this bird re-trapped at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Ringed at Folkestone, Kent, as an adult in February 2001, it’s now in at least its 28th calendar year, with no sightings since 2001! (🧵 1/2)
Male Northern Shoveler
Male Common Pochard
Great morning helping out with waterbird monitoring in one of the London parks 🦆🪶
📍Kensington Gardens
Ringed under licence
Hope you like it 😊
Day 12 of #12DaysWild: Listen to a nature themed podcast 🐦🦊🦬🦓🐋🦎
Thanks! ☺️
Day 11 of #12DaysWild: Go on a nature ramble 🍂
Cool sounds great, thanks 😊
Day 10 of #12DaysWild: Clean the bird bath 🐦
A light 25 KM ride today to start the year’s birding/ringing/cycling. Stopped at Hullbridge and colour-ringed 3 Mute Swans. #LowCarbonBirding #EssexBirding
Day 9 of #12DaysWild: Watch wildlife from your window 🐦
Species;
Collared dove
Herring gull
Carrion Crow
Goldfinch
Blue tit
Great tit
House Sparrow
Dunnock
Robin
Woodpigeon
Starling
Day 8 of #12DaysWild: Read a book inspired by nature
Day 7 of #12DaysWild: watch a nature documentary 🐿
Day 6 of #12DaysWild: A winter beach walk
Day 5 of #12DaysWild: Go birding 🐦
Species seen;
Wigeon
Brent geese
Ringed plover
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
Lapwing
Reed bunting
Stonechat
Golden plover
Canada geese
Greylag geese
Teal
Redshank
Fieldfare
Cetti's (heard)
Redwing
Blackbird
Black-tailed godwit
Woodpigeon
Mute swan
Little egret
Grey heron
Day 4 of #12daysWild: Bird ringing 🐦
Look at those ash grey tips on the primary coverts of this adult male Greenfinch 😍
*Ringed under licence
** Not my thumb 😂
Day 3 of #12DaysWild: Write a nature blog ✏️🐦
www.essexwt.org.uk/blog/gemma-c...
Oh brilliant! Hello 👋🏻
Day 2 of #12DaysWild: Clean out the nest box 🪹
Step 1: Remove nesting material
Step 2: Pour boiling water over
Step 3: Hang back up once dry
Day 1 of #12DaysWild: Feed the birds 🐦
Thank you! The spot I went to had so many compared to last year, loved it 🤓
Three wrinkled peach mushrooms growing on a piece of dead Elm.
The top of a wrinkled peach mushroom growing on a piece of dead Elm.
The underside of a wrinkled peach mushroom growing on a piece of dead Elm.
Hello Bluesky, I'm still clinging to ✨️autumnal goodness✨️ with some phone pics of one of my favourite mushrooms, the wrinkled peach 🍑
#Fungi #WrinkledPeach #Mushrooms #Autumn