Three legal reforms to stop the criminal killing of birds of prey - new petition to UK Minister from @friendsofthedales.bsky.social Details & link to petition in blog 🔽 #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime 🌍 raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/02/19/t...

Please download these signs, share them on social media and put them up near you to protect your local wintering birds. If you would like A4, laminated copies of these signs please e-mail [email protected], all you need to do is donate for postage. www.curlewaction.org/wintering-wa...

#thicktrunktuesday Major Oak, Sherwood Forest taken last June

The Fingleton Review could strip away vital protections for Dorset’s wildlife - from chalk streams to heathlands and ancient woods. ⚠️ Dorset Wildlife Trust's Chief Exec outlines why this matters and how you can speak up.👉 bit.ly/3NpTcNu ~ Jack 📸 Mark Heighes

The National Trust is halfway to their appeal to buy Giant Hill, one of the UKs top butterfly sites, also rich in insects and flowers. The last good habitat for Duke of Burgundy in Dorset. Please donate if you can @nationaltrust.org.uk www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/a...

Happy Christmas everyone

📣 Call for videos and photos 📣 We urgently need visual resources to help advance our conservation mission. We would be so grateful for your 🎥videos and 📸photos, for non-commercial use. More details here: https://projectseahorse.org/call-for-videos-and-photos/ 🌊 Please help us spread the word!

I've emailed my MP to express my disgust for this Labour government. I hope some of you will also speak out, though I find there is a disappointingly high level of apathy in this country.

Lodmoor and Radipole to include some path closures PLEASE come and offer your opinions

Four new species for Dorset (and a belated one for Britain) are among the highlights of the Dorset Moths Annual Report 2024. Free PDF downland from dorsetmoths.co.uk #teammoth @dorsetmoths.bsky.social @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Yellow-browed Warbler, in garden, Rodwell, Weymouth @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social

Red-backed Shrike from yesterday afternoon, Portland Bill @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social

Curlew Sandpiper from the Visiter Centre, Radipole RSPB, Weymouth @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social

Ruby Bollette seen in a neighbours front garden, Weymouth, Dorset @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @thedetermin8or.bsky.social

Good morning Thick trunk Tuesday #thicktrunktuesday

Doing moth trapping in the UK this weekend? Can you help us gather lots of images of moths on egg cartons from your trap? Help us develop a tool making moth recording easier for more people Tks! #mothsmateer #teammoth @richardfoxbc.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @upperthames.bsky.social

Join us today and get your first year of membership for half price! Your membership ensures our vital pollinators can survive and thrive, preserving the beauty of our natural world for generations to come. 🦋💚 Use code BBC2550 👉 buff.ly/bvFoLRP 📷: Nigel Symington

We’re back! Autumn is starting to get going with plenty of waders in the last few weeks, this week should see the first ‘Scandi Drift’ migrants passing through with high pressure over there and a nice south easterly airflow for the next few day

Do you do moth trapping in the UK? We'd love your help! 💡 At @ukceh.bsky.social we're training & testing AI to detect multiple moths in a single image. Send us top-down photos of multiple moths on egg trays to support this work. More info & form: forms.gle/e3HzBPEd7RVV... #mothsmatter #TeamMoth

We are looking for new trustees to join the board @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social - if you or anyone you know might be interested please take a look at the details here www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/trustee (and please share this!)

Just hatched Six spot Burnet, Eight Kings Quarry, Portland @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

*IMPORTANT* Please read & share, it could save you or a loved one from a lifetime of chronic system-wide illness. 🙏❤️ Today I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease.😔 I was bitten by 4 ticks 30 days ago & had a red rash come up around one of the bites, that soon started spreading... *Continued below

I written to my Labour MP, Lloyd Hutton, to express my frustrating at this by DEFRA, the PM & the Labour government @labouruk.bsky.social @protectthewild.bsky.social

“Imagine flattening an irreplaceable grade I listed building like the Royal Albert Hall, replacing it with karaoke machines in various towns & then telling the public this is a ‘win-win’ for architecture & music” - brutally accurate analogy from @ruthtingay.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social

WTF? If this Government can’t even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close …

I'd appreciate it if this could be re posted by as many people as possible to highlight this greedy firm. Apparently if your Husband is rushed to hospital and you get there urgently (following the ambulance) you still have to read the conditions on the sign & appeal failed. @england.nhs.uk use them

Dotterel feeding and showing well on grass to the right of Chesil Visitor Centre, Portland @birdguides.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetbirdtours.bsky.social

Hoopoe in horse paddock field at end of Haylands, Portland @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Songbirds being killed by pesticides found in pet fur flea treatments www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Please sign and share the Parliamentary petition to protect #sphagnum and natural #CarbonCaptureandStorage #blanketbog by banning #windfarms on protected #peatland in England petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Infrastructure construction is one of the biggest threats to #wetland #biodiversity.

Sadly, this fantastic Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 300mm f/4 IS PRO lens has to go. For further details, please visit www.richardlewington.co.uk Repost appreciated

Please Welcome Butterfly Conservation to Blue Sky. @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social @bcyorkshire.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social

Glossy Ibis, Curlew and Oystercatcher in field viewed from Fleet Lane, Weymouth #dorsetbirdclub

We left a pair of Swarovski NL 10x42 on top of the car at East Chevington, Northumberland yesterday and then stupidly walked away, 5 minutes later we realised then returned but they were gone, I know it's a long shot but nobody on here picked them up and are trying to return them?

Just 1 teaspoon of neonicotinoids can kill 1.25 BILLION bees. Yesterday, over 1 million voices told the UK Government: stop allowing banned pesticides in our countryside. DEFRA, it’s time to end ‘emergency’ use. Protect pollinators vital to nature's recovery & our food security.

Happy New Year! We want to see an end to the illegal killing of Hen Harriers, Golden Eagles, Buzzards, Short-eared Owls, Red Kites, White-tailed Eagles, Peregrines etc. If you do too, pls sign & share our petition to ban driven grouse shooting petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... #ornithology

New life, new beginnings. Happy New Year #Australianbirds

Just on the slim chance that anyone is aware of anyone magically acquiring a new pair of binoculars or you see them offered for sale .... my Leica Ultravid 10 x 42 binoculars were stolen from a hide at WWT Slimbridge on 11 December. The serial number is 1593393. #BirdingGear

Happy Christmas everyone. Steller’s Sea Eagle, Hokkaido January 2024

Bridled Tern, Penguin Island, Western Australia

The @savebutterflies.bsky.social latest edition of E-moth has been published. It includes information on booking for the UK Moth Recorders' Meeting along with other interesting updates and reports. You can view it here: bit.ly/3ZG7qwk

#Georgia is a great country for naturalists with alpine, subtropical and dry steppe habitats all within a few hours of travel, combined with great veggie food and a great cultural history. Here's Small desert blue, Luthrodes galba, from Vashlovani NP, dedicated to the free people of Georgia!

Restless Flycatcher, Dryandra National Park, Western Australia, #nature #birds

Interested in a PhD in Ornithology? Four full scholarships available here in Oxford from Oct 2025 in @oxfordbiology.bsky.social - more details available at the link: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2zymo...

Any fellow moth-ers out there? #teamMoth #mothsMatter I've created a detailed glossary of terms and jargon for n00bs and veterans alike www.sciencebase.com/science-blog... Please have a look and let me know if you spot errors or have suggestions for entries

Red-legged Shieldbug, found in the moth trap this morning, Weymouth garden @paulupwey.bsky.social #bugs #insects

Autumn Ladies Tresses, on the bank beside New Ground, Portland at the side of Portland Heights Hotel, Portland, Dorset #Flowers #Dorset

On this day 2023, Scarce Chaser, Lodmoor RSPB, Weymouth #naturephotography