A hot morning above Carphin Farm in Fife with Fife & Kinross Local Group Scottish Wildlife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social hearing about farming with nature. Searched for and found Northern Brown Argus, Dark Green Fritillary and at least 8 other butterfly species. @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Out with the botanical monitors this morning at our Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve at Fleecefaulds Meadow. Bonus was the grasshopper warbler that sang throughout @scotwildlife.bsky.social @fifebirdnews.bsky.social

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Only six species caught in the moth trap last night but this beauty, Garden Tiger, made up for the lack of variety.

Members of Fife & Kinross Local Group Scottish Wildlife Trust enjoying a bright but breezy‘Birding for Beginners’ walk on the Fife Coastal Path between Kilminning and Fife Ness @scotwildlife.bsky.social #Fifebirding #wildlife #Fife #nature

Today’s Fife & Kinross Local Group of Scottish Wildlife Trust walk at Cults near Cupar #Fife. We learned about veteran trees, coppicing, the local history of limestone mining and saw a variety of fungi and lichens @scotwildlife.bsky.social #trees #Fifewildlife

A muddy morning planting grasses for the salt marsh restoration project at Tayport on the River #Tay #GreenShores #saltmarsh #scottishwildlife #Fife

A number of birds like this yellowhammer , song thrushes and great tits have started singing around here and the great spotted woodpeckers are drumming. #fifenature #spring #fifebirding

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Press release: Woodland improvements underway at Cumbernauld wildlife reserve | Bylines Scotland

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I just saw seven Bullfinches fly up from the Heather in this heath in the Lammermuir Hills, SE Scotland. Not their usual type of habitat!

A selection of lichens from our @scotwildlife.bsky.social Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve at Fleecefaulds Meadow today. #lichens #Fife

The tree tops are full of winter thrushes at the moment - mostly fieldfares like these in this part of #Fife this year, redwings not so much. Blackbirds are favouring the open grass areas in the local parks and gardens, and song thrushes seem to prefer reedy ditches #winter #birding

Not a single bird seen in this #Fife woodland but, with all the vegetation died back, a good opportunity for finding #mosses and #lichens. #FifeNature @petravergunst.bsky.social @britishlichensociety.org.uk #winter

📍 Kinghorn Beach | Fife Coastal Path Fulmars tucked in along the cliffs. #Fife #Scotland

📍 Aberdour Castle #Fife A classic village sound, the jackdaws and rooks circling at dusk to roost by the castle. #Scotland

#Fife is such a great county! Boxing Day and miles of empty beach. Tentsmuir Forest National Nature Reserve @naturescot.bsky.social in the distance. #Fifenature #Scotland

A very happy Christmas to all our followers. One of 15 redpolls in a flock of goldfinches yesterday

It never seemed to get properly light under the dense cloud today and most birds were staying hidden…..but there’s always at least one show off! Male stonechat. Check fence lines and the tops of bushes. #Fifenature #winterbirding

Today quickly turned dull and drizzly here in north #Fife so it was good to be reminded that it’s the winter solstice and from now the days get longer #solstice #winter

Warmer winters may be changing the flowering times of plants, with knock-on effects for all our wildlife. The Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland needs your help to track this. Join the New Year Plant Hunt this January bsbi.org/take-part/ac... @bsbibotany.bsky.social #plants #botany

Newly created pond on a #Fife farm. Wet areas like this will become increasingly important to wildlife as climate change progresses. Good to see some farmers responding to the challenge. @scotwildlife.bsky.social #climatechange #conservation

Sheep grazing our Scottish Wildlife Trust reserve, Fleecefaulds Meadow #Fife. Over winter they tackle the coarse vegetation which would otherwise dominate the meadow flowers including several species of orchid. #wildflowermeadow #conservationgrazing @scotwildlife.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

We’re celebrating the birds on our maps but losing them in the real world. If trends continue, those road names might be the last place these species survive. 👇 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Fife & Kinross Local Group of Scottish Wildlife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social had a great event on Sunday evening. Libby Penman, wildlife filmmaker and photographer entertained us with great slides and videos of wildlife from @Fife, Scotland and across the world. www.instagram.com/libby.penman...

Still a few moths about in north #Fife. A well-marked Mottled Umber and a male December Moth with cracking antennae from last night’s catch. #moths #mothing @mothiduk.bsky.social @nature.org @naturescot.bsky.social @scotwildlife.bsky.social

It’s always worth scanning the fields at this time of year. This nice flock of thirty golden plovers has been hanging around for a couple of weeks. #Fife #Fifewildlife #waders #winter #birdingScotland

Redwing, Siskin, Meadow Pipit and Goldcrest at Riverside Nature Park, Dundee today. No sign of yesterday's Greenland White-fronted Goose, but an unexpected Snow Bunting was a pleasant surprise and new for my 2025Dundee150 list (no pics unfortunately).

Today’s work party on our Bankhead Moss reserve in #Fife cleared birch saplings from the central dome of the raised peak bog where they had been encroaching #Fifewildlife #conservation #peatbogs

Plenty of hawthorn berries on our Fleecefaulds Meadow reserve for the redwings and fieldfares this winter #berries #ScottishWildlifeTrust #winter @scottishbirding.bsky.social #Fifewildlife #Fife

Another amazing fungus, the aptly named ‘Yellow Brain’ from a local park in north #Fife #Fifewildlife #ScottishWildlife #fungi

Thanks to all who voted in the Nature of Scotland Awards-the Kilminning wetland project won the Community Initiative award! #birdingFife

The Black Redstart at Roome Bay, Crail this morning. The sun even came out #birdingFife

Inveraray a couple of weeks ago

A good crop of fungi here at a half-frozen Gaddon Loch #fungi #Fifewildlife #winter

Come autumn, come #bryophytes. Climacium dendroides on the shore of Loch of Lintrathen. #scottishwildlifetrust #scottishlichens #scottishbryophytes #riverwoods #biodiversity #noticing

This morning’s roe deer. Nice to look at but can cause a lot of damage to crops and young trees. Numbers have increased a lot in recent years with up to twenty often seen on my walk around here, usually in groups of three. #deer #Fifewildlife #mammals

Glossy Ibis - Falkland (Fife) 11/11/25 #fifebirds #scottishbirding #ukbirds #ukbirding @fifebirdnews.bsky.social @fifekinrossswt.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social

A Common Redshank, stands in shallow water dotted with green vegetation. It has a long, slender bill and striking orange-red legs, which are reflected in the water. The bird is foraging, with its head lowered toward the surface. #Birds #lukehaigh #birdwatching #photography

We’ve had a lot of rain over the last 48 hours and it’s good to see the burns full again. There’s even a bit of flooding in some of the fields but dig down a few cm and it’s bone dry. We need a lot more steady rain to reverse the effects of the summer drought #ClimateChange #Fife #drought #rainfall

Glossy Ibis - Falkland (Fife) 10/11/25 #fifebirds #scottishbirding #ukbirds #ukbirding @fifebirdnews.bsky.social @fifekinrossswt.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social

Jelly Ear #fungus, abundant in #Fife at this time of year and most frequently found on dead elder branches. Reportedly edible but apparently very rubbery. I’m not tempted. #autumn #fifewildlife

A very wet day of hedge planting at #MortonLochs with NatureScot to create a new wildlife corridor @naturescot.bsky.social #Fife #hedges

Glossy Ibis still feeding on a flooded roadside field in Falkland, Fife at 11.00 this morning 11/11/25 #fifebirds #scottishbirding #ukbirds #ukbirding @fifebirdnews.bsky.social @fifekinrossswt.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social

Ivy flowers still attracting lots of insects in this part of Fife. #Fife #ivy #Fifewildlife #insects

Glossy Ibis feeding on a flooded roadside field in Falkland, Fife at 16.15 this evening 10/11/25 #fifebirds #scottishbirding #ukbirds #ukbirding @fifebirdnews.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social

Some fine #fungi in #Fife this #autumn. This, I think, is Coprinellus micaceous in early and late stages. Its common names include mica cap, glistening inky cap and shiny cap. #Fifewildlife

2 Little Auk, 1 Manx Shearwater, 1 Arctic Skua & 10 Little Gull the highlights of an hour at Fife Ness first thing #birdingFife