Very weathery out there today. (Seaton Carew beach, Northeast England)

This is a really terrible photo and I am not expecting anyone to ID it, I am just curious about what types of small moths would be about on the edge of the North York Moors in (admittedly, a mild) November? #invertebrates #moths #lepidoptera

unwrapped leaf by leaf radiant in autumn light bold, beautiful - tree #haikuSaturday #haiku #tres #dendrology #audubon #arcadia #autumn

#HaikuSaturday #haiku 5/7/5: brown brittle remains of a large sycamore leaf-- golden memories short form: bare sycamore tree-- golden ghosts linger Please add a version if you feel like it.

November tempest; gusts batter the windows, clatter, rattle doors. #haikuSaturday

Amendment 40 to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill has been voted down. Had it passed, it would have meant more precious wildlife would have retained existing protections. Instead, MPs have bought into the false 'nature vs growth' narrative.

Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries. 18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England. #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...

Unexpected garden visitor - a Ring-necked Parakeet! There’s a feral population in a nearby park, but this is only the second one in the garden. Very fluffy tummy. 🪶 @teesbirds.bsky.social

migration

I was glad to see the 2 Taiga Bean Geese last week at Dooey in West Donegal. Having managed brief views of 1 of the 9 Taiga's that had been at Inch, it was a great opportunity to be able to take in the structure and details. A Pink-footed sleeping in a roadside field made for a much better subject.

Once again I'm begging people not to compare politicians to invertebrates. Inverts are cool and diverse and play an important ecological role. Politicians are the lower order.

#Nudivember Day 9 (Posca markers, colored pencil and watercolor on pastel paper)

So many Marasmius hudsonii in the woods. #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday

They were giving away unused pumpkins at the library last weekend; this one was too far gone for eating so I painted it instead. 🐡 #watercolour #botanicalArt

Kestrel lit by the setting sun against a dark rain cloud on Teesside this evening. @teesbirds.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social 🪶

frosty goldenrod swaps its yellow sundress for a fuzzy sweater #HaikuSaturday 💚 #nativeplants 💚 #gardening

beneath starry skies buck-toothed builder carves frost moon on the wane #haikuSaturday #haiku #poetry #moon #beavers #ecology #rivers #trees

They’re observant, birds, Perpetually watching; Never miss a trick. #haikuSaturday

BAD NEWS! Should the swift brick vote have taken place earlier today we would have won. Tories whipped YES but by the time of the vote, support had gone home just like 2 years ago. It is an AGONISING reality. Tell your MP & [email protected] what you think. GUTTED.

Welcome to November!

It’s been exactly 2 months since I survived Heller’s myotomy. Life is about celebrating every day, and I am grateful for all the prayers, blessings and people who stand by me during 1/2 #art #sciart #scientificillustration #traditionalart #watercolor #scicomm #deer #chronicillness #ink #penandink

Swan poem: #poetry #natureWriting

A solitary whooper swan near Newburn Bridge, Hartlepool today. Unusual to see one by itself, hope it’s ok. @teesbirds.bsky.social #BirdingNortheast

October sweeps out while wind, rain, cold, dark seep in --haunted thoughts prevail #haikusaturday #haiku

drought swept away in tumults of autumn rain river swells to life (same river, same hour, very different moods) #haikuSaturday #haiku #ecology #rivers #autumn #NewEngland

North Sea Poetry Weekend Bulletin - ballads, birds, new classes open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

The wind blows the crows, Tumbling with the falling leaves As the seasons shift. #haikuSaturday

Downfall - mixed media painting of a broken oak in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire. Possibly lightning struck; the tangle of limbs is already being colonised by fungi. 🐡 #art #nature

Some fabulous fungi to start off the week. 📷 Jonathan Phillips 🍄 1/3

Nice array of small ferns on a north-facing wall by the (currently closed) Transporter Bridge, Middlesbrough. Asplenium spp - maidenhair spleenwort, hartstongue, wall rue and (?) black spleenwort. 🐡 #wildflowerHour

#fungifriends - does anyone have a link to a good explanation of the mechanism by which honey fungus kills its hosts, and how the fungus benefits from this? Thank you 🍄

Bonsoir les #entomologues de Bluesky, j'ai besoin de votre aide. Savez-vous quel insecte c'est ? Vu il y a quelques jours en plein milieu de l'Isère. Merci ! #entomologie #insecte

📸🐛🐞🐜🦗🦟🪲🪰🪳🕷️🐝🦋🐌🕸️📸 If you’re in Australia, grab your camera and get ready to record all the bugs & inverts you see in the first Bugs in My Backyard week (Nov 17-23). Then record your sightings on #inaturalist for #citizenscience #insects #inverts #ausinverts #wildoz www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

rain silvers the lake drives cold through mittens and shoes-- sudden arc blazes 5-7-5 #haikusaturday #haiku

The leaves’ rich brocade Conceals our careless litter - Dull streets, all dolled up. #haikuSaturday

in dappled woodland deadwood tree dances alive with life within #haikuSaturday #haiku #ecology #deadwood #forest #snag #Audubon #Aracadia

🌍 Wader Conservation World Watch Take part wherever you are observe, record & share your wader sightings. Raise awareness of the conservation issues waders face. 💚 Wader Quest £1,000 Grants Fund. Siberian Sandplover © Bitnik Gao www.waderquest.net/events/wader... #inspired #waders #shorebirds

Tell Amazon: stop the trinket trade of the painted woolly bat. Painted woolly bats are forest guardians, but a sick Halloween trend is fueling demand for their bodies. They’re being kidnapped from SE Asia, their dead bodies sold as Halloween decorations online action.eko.org/a/painted-wo...

What I saw in the sand dunes last week (mysteriously large amounts of intact but empty snail shells, of several different species). Interesting to find some specialist sand-dune fungi too. North Gare, Teesside, NE England; pen and watercolour sketches. 🐡🍄 #nature

A misty morning last week on Sutton Bank, the western edge of the North York Moors - the view across Garbutt Wood to the limestone cliffs where the jackdaws live with Lake Gormire (Yorkshire’s smallest lake) on the right and the faintest glimpse of Hood Hill in the background. Watercolour. #art 🪶

among the fallen leaves autumnal woodland treasure deadwood mushrooms bloom #haikuSaturday #haiku #mycology #ecology #autumn #woodland

Had one of these beauties in the garden yesterday, so bird place-name of the day 98 is: HAWRIDGE (Bucks). OE hafoc +hyrcg. ‘Hawk ridge’. NEARLY AT 100! WHAT BIRD SHOULD IT BE? #birdsandplace #naturewriting

Exasperated. Gutted. Furious. Terrified. Sometimes swear words are the only ones that fit. Our delightful government - who we put our trust in - is u-turning on THE easiest Nature action *ever*. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mist droplets betray Silken death-traps. Spiders sulk, Wait out the weather. #haikuSaturday

More mushrooms from a recent walk at Sutton Bank, the western edge of the North York Moors (UK) - some beautiful colours! Seems to be a good year for fungi. Pen and watercolour. Identities are best guesses for most. 🐡 #fungi #fungiFriends

Redwing at Seaton Carew today. @teesbirds.bsky.social

Fungi and other finds from a visit to the Great Wood near Keswick in the English Lake District last week - particularly exciting to find Hen-of-the-woods (Maitake) which I’ve never found before, it’s not common in the UK. Pen and watercolour sketches. 🐡 #fungi #lichen #plants #fungiFriends #art

Fancy writing poems about how we explore connections to landscape and history through the self portrait poem? I’ll be running this zoom workshop for @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social on the 28th October www.eventbrite.com/e/wendy-prat...