As if to make up for our Swift family finally leaving on their long journey home. I had a surprise last night, as usual, I put food out for Boss, our visiting hedgehog, only to discover that we now have two hogs visiting our garden. It was a lovely surprise, and I’m delighted. ❤️🦔🦔❤️

This morning, I rolled over in bed and was fortunate enough to see a swift leave the nest box, followed ‘swiftly’ by another. 🙂Our chicks had fledged and were on their way home! I wished them a safe journey. It was a bittersweet moment as they had been such good company over the summer months. 💚 🐦

New bat has dropped! 🦇

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Bats may mistake wind turbines for open sky, causing deadly collisions | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Estate ownership questions raised after two men charged in relation to alleged illegal killing of Red Kites in Cairngorms National Park raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/07/07/e...

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

The publication of AviList means that for the first time ever, we have a unified global checklist of the species of bird found on planet Earth. - www.birdlife.org/news/2025/06...

This year’s Noctule 🦇 pups are well developed already, judging by footage from this morning. I originally set up the Secacam 7 so we knew bats were present at a remote roost before setting off on the 1.5 hour drive to monitor them, but the insight into how bats are using this roost is so valuable

🦇 Our advice pages are there to answer the most widely asked questions we get. From what to do if you find a bat to making your garden more bat friendly: www.bats.org.uk/advice

June 1st. I saw two toadlet youngsters heading through the long grass toward our garden pond. Lovely sighting. Recorded with Travelling Toadlets. 🐸🐸 You can upload your sightings to our special 'Travelling Toadlets' online portal @ ARG.UK: www.recordpool.org.uk/travellingto... #travellingtoadlets

June 5th 2012. A handsome poplar hawkmoth. I couldn't believe it when I saw him perched outside my bat flight in broad daylight. I kept him safe during the day and released him later that night.

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. Do what you can.

A rainy day. June 5th 2012. Bird box on the side of my shed.

You may have already written, but please contact your MP again. The Bill reaches Report Stage in the Commons on Monday, June 9. This is a vital opportunity for MPs to speak out and support further amendments before it moves to the House of Lords. A prewritten email - 2 seconds to sign and send.

Spiny-headed Tree #Frogs 🐸💚💌 of #Mexico 🇲🇽 #CostaRica 🇨🇷 are Near Threatened by #PalmOil #deforestation. Males make a "boop...boop" sound when calling females. Fight for their survival, be #Vegan and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife

'For the last 35 years you have been subjected to nothing more than than possibly the greatest organised rip off perpetrated on the British people..." Feargal Sharkey's passionate speech on water. Ask your MP to represent YOU at next Friday's debate on water: www.mpwatch.org/support-clea...

Petition: Nationalise the UK water industry petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

The government’s Land Use consultation is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to intervene in this critical issue. Here’s my response to it. Please feel free to borrow / copy & paste as much as you want. It’s crucial that we engage. www.monbiot.com/2025/03/23/f... 1/3 🧵

Responses must be in by April 25. You don’t have to respond at anything like this length. Just make sure your voice is heard, and the consultation is not dominated by landowners demanding business as usual: a disaster for ecosystems and our own wellbeing. consult.defra.gov.uk/land-use-fra... 2/3

If we don't respond, the answers will be dominated by the very people who got us into this mess. Decisions about land use all too often fall prey to reactionary politics. So please, even if only briefly, fill out the consultation form. Thanks.

Northumbrian Water dumped 945,000 tonnes of sewage into sea in 2024. Every day story of England's water companies with 1,135 criminal convictions. Permitted by OFWAT to fleece customers, operate illegally, create health hazards. Govt refuses to end abuses.

22 March was #WorldWaterDay 💧 Together with the other nexus elements of health, food and climate, #biodiversity & water are closely & inextricably linked.💧🌱 Read more about this and response options in the @ipbes.net  #NexusAssessment  https://www.ipbes.net/nexus-assessment

Sometimes it's hard to find bats in the flight house. Sometimes not so much. Batholomew booty. 🍑🦇 #bats #arizona #wildanimals #cuteanimals #wildlife

Donald Trump sparked outrage with his shocking display of bullying at the Oval office meeting with Ukraine’s President Zelensky. Now, over 150,000 of us are calling to cancel his second UK state visit - will you join the backlash too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...

Corporate monopolies 💰🔥👿 drive #landgrabbing for #palmoil. To give #indigenous peoples, animals and #nature a fighting chance, we must resist. "Sustainable" palm oil is #greenwashing! #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social 🌴🪔🧐🙊⛔️ palmoildetectives.com/2022/11/20/l...

It's #WorldWildlifeDay! 🐻 Our Professor @fionamathews.bsky.social recently returned from her latest research trip to #Ecuador with camera trap images of native wildlife including the Andean Bear, Puma, Tayra and Culpeo. Read about this vital conservation project: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

I mentioned in my talk for #ScotBatConf that @batconservation.bsky.social is recruiting volunteers for the #NationalBatHelpline - more details available online buff.ly/3ubLKs0

The #bats are waking up 🦇🦇🦇

Mid morning, it was a joy to see a fluttering, lemon-yellow Brimstone butterfly flying across the garden. The Butterfly That Signals Spring Has Sprung. 😊 Look out for Brimstone Butterflies!!

The Javan #Rhino is the world's most endangered of the 5 #rhinoceros 🦏🩶 There are only a few dozen left 😟🧐 Threats include #poaching #palmoil expansion and #deforestation. Support them when u #BoycottPalmOil 🌴☠️🩸🙊⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/01/24/j...

Recent events have redefined the 'axis of evil'...

🦇NEW #vacancy: we are #recruiting a Volunteer Engagement Officer for our National Bat Monitoring Programme team! - Part time – fixed term (3 days a week for 6 months) - Application deadline 17 March More info & to apply: www.bats.org.uk/the-trust/jo...

A couple of years ago I wrote an essay about avian influenza within a Dalmatian pelican colony and this was the great fear of the experts I spoke to. One said, "If it becomes easily transmissible to humans it could make Covid look like a birthday party." www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

The red-backed shrike, known as the butcher bird for its habit of impaling prey corpses on thorns etc, has been virtually extinct as a UK breeding species for decades. That it was once common is apparent from Richard Jefferies’s description of taking the train from London to Brighton in the 1880s.

After being absent for decades, pine martens are now present again across the New Forest, three-year study confirms. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVU9...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Fantastic news. Devon Wildlife Trust is fundraising for this rn

2/2 Fifteen pine martens were successfully released last year at secret locations on Dartmoor. The Devon Wildlife Trust, funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, is leading a similar project (in partnership with a range of organisatons) to return a similar number of pine martens to Exmoor.

A conservation project to restore pine martens across Britain has hit a major milestone. A collaboration between Vincent Wildlife Trust (VWT) and Forestry and Land Scotland has successfully translocated more than 100 animals to Wales, Gloucestershire & Devon. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Director of Nature Recovery with Devon Wildlife Trust, based at Cricklepit Mill, Exeter, full-time, permanent position

Are you a landowner or land manager in or around Exmoor and want to learn more about living alongside pine martens? The Devon Wildlife Trust are holding a drop in session Fri 14 March Dulverton Library 7-9 Fore Street TA22 9EX 2- 4pm www.devonwildlifetrust.org/two-moors-pine-marten-project-faqs

Happy not to be a crab.

🦇What should you do if you find a bat in need of help? 🏗 Are you working on a building and found bats? 🏠 Want to put up a bat box but don't know where to start? 🌸 How to make your garden more bat friendly? Our advice pages cover all the above and more: www.bats.org.uk/advice

1/4 at the @btobirds.bsky.social conference this past weekend, Dr Teresa Frost (Head of Waterbird Monitoring at BTO) discussed 'Insights and Impacts from Monitoring Waterbirds', stressing the important use of WeBS, GSMP, NEWS and WinGS data for the conservation of these species #ornithology

Please help us track London’s kestrels! 🦅 Your sightings can help us understand their population and how we can help them thrive in the city. Seen a kestrel? We'd love to hear about it! Let us know here 👇 wildlondon.org.uk/campaigns/record-your-sightings/kestrel #Kestrel #CitizenScience