Nature's tenacity? This asco #fungi growing out from a painted wooden door in a #HumberheadLevels town centre🐤 At first glance it reminded me of Auricularia auricula-judae aka "jelly ear" but keen to hear if other options are thought better (along with rationale please)🤔 @britmycolsoc.org.uk

The Bat Conservation Trust article in the link below is well worth a read 👍🦇

This is the report I spoke of on #bbcaq just now - ministers tried to suppress it, were finally forced to release it after an FoI, but shamefully only published a redacted version. The first duty of Govt is to protect its citizens - that starts with being honest with us about scale of threat we face

#BadBirdPhotographs Whooper Swan herd earlier today, estimated to be around 80 birds foraging in fields on periphery of #HatfieldMoors SSSI. Surely there's a Bewick's lurking somewhere hereabouts? #HumberheadLevels

BREAKING: A Gamekeeper has pleaded guilty in England’s first-ever Hen Harrier persecution case. Covert video and audio gathered lawfully by the RSPB Investigations team has helped expose the deliberate targeting of a Hen Harrier, leading to a landmark guilty plea: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈

For all the #nightjar enthusiasts out there - www.globalnightjar.org/post/size-ma...

Supersized illegal waste dumps hidden across English countryside.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another #BadBirdPhotograph, this one of a small herd of 13 Whooper Swans feeding in #HumberheadLevels arable fields earlier today (22/01/2026).

#BadBirdPhotography 😞 One of the two Bramblings regularly visiting our garden feeders over the last couple of months👍 Part of mixed Chaff, Gold & Green finch flock competing with other usual visitors for food #HumberheadLevels #Garden birds

An excellent paper "Fine details: Tips for improving specimen photography" by @ajcann.bsky.social in latest edition of British Journal of Entomology & Natural History just arrived @britentsoc.bsky.social 🪳🕷🪲🐝🦗🦟🐞

An amazingly well researched historical study of Black Grouse in a regional context #HumberheasLevels (incl. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire) if interested in obtaing a copy (£10 incl. P&P) DM me for details. The Lapwing New Series No.2 @birdingdad.bsky.social @donnybirding.bsky.social

Gamekeeper Thomas Munday convicted after brutally clubbing a trapped Buzzard to death on a Pheasant shoot at Hovingham, North Yorkshire. Press release and video in blog ⬇️ ‼️WARNING - the video content is highly disturbing. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/01/12/g...

Happy 100th birthday Dr Margaret Bradshaw (10/01/2026) 🎂 A truly remarkable woman with an amazing catalogue of achievements. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Current & historic landfills across the UK & Europe are sited near rivers, on coasts, in flood risk zones, explains @profkatespencer.bsky.social - climate change means extreme rainfall events & flooding are happening more often, increasing risk of pollutants entering waterways. 🧵 1/3

Wondering if @brianecambs.bsky.social could offer any suggestions 🤔

We suggested #Paludiculture here in the ##HumberheadLevels but the #solar #farm developers wouldn't listen or even consider. Shame, particularly as it's in Ed Miliband's back yard! Best of both worlds, nah .... why bother .... #Doncaster #Yorkshire www.theguardian.com/environment/...

With loads of challenges along with (hopefully) some opportunities in 2026 here's wishing all my followers & friends a happy & healthy New Year👍Let's hope it's better 4 the planet, 4 the natural environment, 4 wildlife & 4 people💚 Go ##PeatFree & help challenge #ClimateEmergency #HumberheadLevels

Should we in the UK be concerned? An interesting read to help inform any discussion or &/or decision 🤔 tradesecrets.globaljustice.org.uk/ch2/

Compilation video well worth a watch, sad that management issues created the necessity to rescue & rear but Trevor delivers an excellent outcome for #Nottinghamshire's beleaguered #PurpleEmperor #Butterflies youtu.be/CFMVX0MlcfM?...

@carlsayer.bsky.social @brianecambs.bsky.social

Fond memories of his 2002 visit to Thorne & Hatfield Moors SSSI when we delivered a conference celebrating buy out of peat extraction permissions on T,H & at Wedholme Flow. Peatlands, he once wrote, were a “Cinderella habitat”: overlooked, abused, & hardworking. www.butlernature.com/2025/12/22/s...

Festive Eve greetings to my followers & friends😊 An assortment of #garden #flowers to cheer the mood😊 Here's wishing you all happy & healthy celebrations as another year appears on the horizon👍 Take care & stay safe all👍 #HumberheadLevels #Wildlife #Wildflowers

Dare we read them? @brianecambs.bsky.social @davegoulson.bsky.social @craigbennett3.bsky.social @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social

Gannets have just one chick a year and a group of men club them to death for "tradition"

Wishing all my followers & friends a happy #WinterSolstice & a happy, healthy year to come in 2026🙂 Take care & stay safe all as we face challenges & opportunities for people & the planet🙂 #HumberheasLevels Go #PeatFree in 2026👍

Brief mention of the secret agreement which transferred land but allowed corporate carnage to continue @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1992...

@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social Hi again Hannah. You tried to DM me on X, & I also tried to DM you across there. No sign of yours so maybe we talk peat on this platform instead, DM me so we can correspond. Thanks🙂

classic bait & switch. Incinerator firm gets permission to burn limited types of waste: "refuse-derived fuel (RDF) from domestic, commercial & industrial non-hazardous waste". Then having got permission, seeks "minor technical variation" to burn 68 more types of waste! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Useful contribution to the understanding of historical #BlackGrouse regional populations #HumberheadLevels @donnybirding.bsky.social @lincsbirding.bsky.social @perilsofbirding.bsky.social @mikepilsworth.bsky.social @rspbblacktoftsands.bsky.social @birdingdad.bsky.social @jimhorsfall.bsky.social

In the words of its author "This research offers an interconnected account of birds, people & places." With >20 pages of endnote references as testament to the word 'research'! Of which 30 papers written by the prolific author Martin Limbert. @brianecambs.bsky.social

Confused catkins? All very well these appearing in early (onset of) winter but will their potential recipients follow suit🤔 Hazel; male catkins 11 December 2025. Another challenged provided by changing #climate patterns🤔 #HumberheadLevels #Hedgerows #Hazel #Phenology

Sadly the Humberhead Levels has always been the poor relation from the north😪 Recall 2004 & the discovery of the neolithic trackway on Hatfield Moors SSSI, reputedly preserved 'in situ' .... mmh, really, is it still there I wonder🤔 @fossilbeetle.bsky.social

Wondering if you guys might be able to help with ID or signposting @brianecambs.bsky.social @fossilbeetle.bsky.social

Time to end the unsustainable practice of #peat use by the horticultural industry, decades of excuses like needing more time to transition away from #peat & need consistent alternative #Horticulture needs to step up & help not hinder #ClimateChange actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

Found over the years that corporate interests have deep pockets & expensive lobbyists🤨 We need to ban #peat sales now if we are serious about challenging #ClimateEmergency

"Today, foreign corporations, or the oligarchs who own them, can sue governments for the laws they pass, at offshore tribunals composed of corporate lawyers. Cases are held in secret. Unlike our courts, these tribunals allow no right of appeal or judicial review." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Carol Day talking sense about the need for the Aarhus Convention on the @green-alliance.org.uk podcast 👍 #PeacefulProtest is an essential part of a #Democracy

A tale of community action safeguarding nature, heartening evidence that challenge can deliver positive outcomes👍 With thanks to @mikeshanahan.bsky.social newsletter posts. planetficus.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

"We broadly know the solutions. The challenge lies in implementation, ...... " & also imho politicians & political will 🤔 #COP30 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/buried-and...

"They are all now dead & can never be replaced: Martha, Benjamin & Inca, Booming Ben & Lonesome George, each one the last known member of its kind. Their names remind us that we have epic tales to tell of the decline & fall of entire species." #Extinction thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/unhappy-en...

Definitely deserves a wide audience, definitely needs action by Government to safeguard people & the planet, so we need our politicians to step up now as in today not tomorrow #PFAS #Poison ing people & planet 😞 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

England's bathing water results are out! I've mapped them here: MAP: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha... Defra says it's an improvement but I'm not so sure. A few thoughts here about what the results don't tell you: watershedinvestigations.com/the-environm...

Sunday book review: Spiders and Harvestmen of Yorkshire by @ecology-digest.bsky.social Publisher: Pisces Review: markavery.info/2025/11/16/s... @ynuorg.bsky.social @britishspiders.bsky.social @yorkshiredales.org.uk @northyorkmoors.org.uk @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @wildsheffield.bsky.social

Yeah, look what's just landed, thanks @markavery.bsky.social If it's as good as the likes of your "Message from Martha" then the only down side is it'll not take me long to read🙂👍😉 Also like the excellent artwork by Ian Rees which breaks up the monthly entries👍

"Helena Dollimore, the MP for Hastings and Rye, suspects the beads may have been spilled by a local water treatment centre and has written to the Southern Water chief executive, Lawrence Gosden, demanding an explanation." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for bird flu via the forms below ⬇️ 📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/rep... 📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/.../daera-de.... 📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.services.agriculture.gov.ie/report

How confident are the public in the water industry I wonder?

How confident are the public in the water industry I wonder? "Industry body Water UK said it was confident drinking water was safe." "But Water UK called for a ban on the chemicals to prevent accumulation." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Exclusive: mercury from fillings, belched out of crematoria, is getting into our rivers and fish. More than 98% of fish & mussels tested in English waters contain mercury above proposed EU limits. 43 countries have banned it. Why not here you might ask... www.theguardian.com/environment/...