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Loves all nature @Dolly&DJ on Twitter
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Mark Avery
1 day ago
Quck - help Swifts swiftly
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Swifts spark joy!’ Why these beautiful birds need our help – and 10 ways to give it
Britain’s swift population fell by two-thirds between 1995 and 2023. Make their lives a little easier with a bit more food and more places to nest
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/02/swifts-spark-joy-why-these-beautiful-birds-need-our-help-and-10-ways-to-give-it?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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wildflowerhour
3 days ago
Have you seen a Cowslip in bloom this year? This week’s challenge is to find one and share your pics for
#wildflowerhour
this Sunday using the hashtag
#CowslipChallenge
. Happy flower hunting! 💛
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wildflowerhour
9 days ago
Sometimes when we are botanising we can forget to look up! Which would be a shame as
#treeflowers
are both fascinating & beautiful! This week’s challenge is to go looking for wild & naturalised trees that are blooming. Share your finds for
#WildflowerHour
this Sunday 8-9pm!
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Spotted this assumed Osier, Salix viminalis, in flower at a local NR. Basket Willow has been used in basketry for centuries. Basket making even pre-dates pottery so it could potentially have been an important plant for Neolithic people.
#StoryPlants
#WildflowerHour
12 days ago
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Sussex Wildlife Trust
17 days ago
Brighton Marina is applying — again — to dump dredged sediment at Beachy Head West Marine Conservation Zone. Dredging may be necessary. But dumping 1000s of tonnes of sediment in a protected area is not. Use our template email to object.
https://f.mtr.cool/tgghjihrta
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Martine Fenn
19 days ago
#DirtyBusiness
exposed the human cost of profit before public health. Our water system won’t be fixed with tinkering. It needs public ownership. I’ve asked my MP to attend the MP drop-in on 17th March & hear that message directly from sewage campaigners:
actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
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Ask your MP to meet with ‘Dirty Business’ activists!
#DirtyBusiness exposed the human cost of profit before public health. Our water system won’t be fixed with tinkering. It needs public ownership. I’ve asked my MP to attend the MP drop-in on 17th March...
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-your-mp-to-meet-with-dirty-business-activists?source=bluesky&&
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Peter McSweeney
19 days ago
As its not on today's theme, I'm going early with
#bsbi
#wildflowerhour
. These are completely native daffs in a small reserve in Gloucestershire in the golden triangle, which was stunning yesterday. One person seeing this was nearly in tears...
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wildflowerhour
17 days ago
As we wait for the arrival of spring to catch up in some places, something a bit different for this week’s challenge! Many wild plants have interesting stories to tell. Find one & share your pics with a fascinating fact using hashtag
#storyplants
for
#wildflowerhour
Sunday 8-9pm!
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Pollen beetles love Dandelions!
#WildWebsWednesday
16 days ago
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Mistletoe growing high up in this tree. Not sure what species, any suggestions?
#WildWebsWednesday
16 days ago
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#WhiteFlowers
seen this week - Hairy Bittercress, Sweet Violet, a very pale Ivy-leaved Speedwell, Shepherd’s Purse, Daisy, Common Chickweed, Cherry Plum & Three-cornered Leek
#WildflowerHour
19 days ago
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wildflowerhour
23 days ago
Can you find any wild or naturalised plants that have white blooms? That’s the
#wildflowerhour
challenge this week! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag
#WhiteFlowers
. Happy flower hunting!
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
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Alister Clunas
25 days ago
Puffin “wreck” on French/Iberian coasts getting zero media coverage. A major disaster. Needs to be covered by the mainstream media.
@markavery.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
@birdtrack.bsky.social
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social
@jbfarthing.bsky.social
@rspbscotland.bsky.social
@btoscotland.bsky.social
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#SignsOfSpring
this week: Coltsfoot, a few early Blackthorn flowers (old sloe in view), Elder leaf burst and a soggy Lesser Celandine.
#WildflowerHour
26 days ago
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wildflowerhour
about 1 month ago
Whether it’s a first Lesser Celandine flower of the year or Elder leaves unfurling. The first
#WildflowerHour
challenge of the year is to spot
#SignsOfSpring
! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm. Below is the link if you would like to record your
#NaturesCalendar
sightings ⬇️
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
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Lesley
Trump Action Tracker
about 1 month ago
The Trump administration on Tuesday took the first step toward loosening regulations that protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale from vessel strikes.
TAT
: [Attacking science]
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Trump administration considering looser protections for North Atlantic right whale
The Trump administration on Tuesday took the first step toward loosening regulations that protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale from vessel strikes.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/trump-administration-considering-looser-protections-north-atlantic-right-whale-2026-03-03/
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Lesser Celandine, white Sweet Violet, Primrose, Common Field Speedwell, Hairy Bittercress, Ground Ivy, Common Chickweed, Cherry Plum, Dandelion & Snowdrops
#TheWinter10
#WildflowerHour
about 1 month ago
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A Pollen Beetle feeding on Crocus pollen.
#WildWebsWednesday
about 1 month ago
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Lots of 7-spot ladybirds waking up in the Spring like weather and emerging from Ivy to sun themselves.
#WildWebsWednesday
about 1 month ago
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Zack Labe
about 1 month ago
The average sea-ice thickness around the North Pole continues to set monthly record lows (according to the PIOMAS dataset). Each line represent one year from 1979 (blue) to 2026 (red)... note the trend 📉 More views at
zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
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Spring is coming! 😃 This week’s
#TheWinter10
- Creeping Comfrey, Sweet Violet, Spurge-laurel, Primrose, Winter Aconite, Red Deadnettle, Common Chickweed, Common Whitlowgrass, Stinking Hellebore & Cherry Plum
#WildflowerHour
about 1 month ago
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Simon Oldridge
about 2 months ago
This is probably one the most important warnings we have ever been given.
#AMOC
Really worth watching. Because at some point soon, it’ll be too late to do anything.
youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...
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Collapse of this Atlantic current could change Europe's climate forever
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
https://youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?si=_NpyYqrZNRxzra34
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Mark Avery
about 1 month ago
3/3 Each asks my subscribers to do something - a little thing. Not to donate or to man anything but an imagined barricade - but to do something, not to shrug and move on. My monthly newsletter is free, has thousands of subscribers and you could be one of them - see
markavery.info/sign-monthly...
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Miles King
about 2 months ago
Some news about People Need Nature
peopleneednature.org.uk
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People Need Nature – a charity promoting the emotional and spiritual value of nature
https://peopleneednature.org.uk
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Assumed Whitewash lichen plus moss on Ash
#WildWebsWednesday
about 1 month ago
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Natural Historian
about 2 months ago
Lots of crocuses around our poor Surrey soils, this one from "old Surrey", a Richmond cemetery for
#WildflowerHour
... Has a somewhat Spencer'esque "Resurrection at Cookham" feel to it?
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This week’s
#TheWinter10
- Hazel, Red Deadnettle, Snowdrops, Common Chickweed, Common Field Speedwell, Groundsel, Small Nettle, Daisy, Periwinkle & Cyclamen
#WildflowerHour
about 2 months ago
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A Lime hedge hosting assumed Crepidotus and Exidia sp, plus Common Orange Lichen.
#WildWebsWednesday
about 2 months ago
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Norfolk Bea
2 months ago
Murder trial due to begin: former Head Gamekeeper David Campbell of Edradynate Estate accused of killing ex-colleague with shotgun
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/02/01/m...
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Murder trial due to begin: former Head Gamekeeper David Campbell of Edradynate Estate accused of killing ex-colleague with shotgun
A long-awaited murder trial is expected to get underway this coming week at the High Court in Glasgow. David Campbell, 76, the former Head Gamekeeper at Edradynate Estate near Aberfeldy, Perthshire…
https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/02/01/murder-trial-due-to-begin-former-head-gamekeeper-david-campbell-of-edradynate-estate-accused-of-killing-ex-colleague-with-shotgun/
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This week’s
#TheWinter10
Cyclamen, Yew, Crocus, Dandelion, Snowdrop, Primrose, Common Field Speedwell, Stinking Hellebore, Winter Aconite & Hazel
#WildflowerHour
2 months ago
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Francesca L Rolle
2 months ago
It would be great to get some more signatures on this
#PeatFree
petition:
actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...
#Gardening
#UKGardeners
#GardensHour
#WildflowerHour
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Sign the petition to end peat sales!
No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.
https://actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sales/
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Springtails living underneath a Jelly-ear fungus which in turn is growing on an old Elder
#WildWebsWednesday
2 months ago
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This week’s
#TheWinter10
feels like Spring is on its way. 😊 Stinking Hellebore, Hazel, Snowdrops, Yarrow, White Deadnettle, Ragwort, Daisy, Winter Aconite, Primrose & Red Deadnettle
#WildflowerHour
2 months ago
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7-spot Ladybird sunning itself on an Ivy leaf.
#WildWebsWednesday
2 months ago
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This week’s
#TheWinter10
- Common Field Speedwell, Groundsel, Yarrow, Hazel (flower & catkin), Stinking Hellebore, Primrose, Common Ragwort, Daisy, Dandelion & Red Deadnettle
#WildflowerHour
3 months ago
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martinswarren.bsky.social
3 months ago
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...
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Donate to the Cerne Abbas Nature Appeal
Donate to the Cerne Abbas Appeal so together, we can help restore the land, habitats and species that live there.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/appeals/cerne-abbas-nature-appeal
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Horrid weather this week so didn’t go out looking for flowers but walked past the Stinking Hellebore growing by the village pond.
#WildflowerHour
3 months ago
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Tiny, but surprisingly hardy Nigma walckenaeri seen active while it was snowing! Think it might be drinking melted snow on this Ivy leaf.
#WildWebsWednesday
3 months ago
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Mark Avery
3 months ago
Guest blog - Ban Bio-beads by
@chriscorrigan3.bsky.social
of
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social
Blog
markavery.info/2026/01/06/g...
#sussex
#bio-beads
#southernwater
#hastings
#rye
#dollimore
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
@eastsussexcc.bsky.social
@naturalengland.bsky.social
@strandliners.bsky.social
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Late for
#WildflowerHour
-
#NYPH
results. IDs in Alt text
3 months ago
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A coastal
#TheWinter10
some of which I guess are garden escapees - Red Valerian, Ragwort, Winter Heliotrope, Daisy, *maybe* Cat’s-ear, a Fleabane, Smooth Sowthistle, Periwinkle, Ox-eye Daisy & Cyclamen
#WildflowerHour
3 months ago
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BSBI Botany
3 months ago
Not sure whether to take part in
#NewYearPlantHunt
? Worrying that your
#WildFlowerID
skills won't be up to scratch? No problem: just use one of our spotter sheets for your area:
bsbi.org/take-part/ac...
Download & print it, or find all the spotter sheet plants on a ticklist on the
#BSBIRecordingApp
!
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Natural Historian
3 months ago
Far too late for
#WildflowerHour
but ... Was looking in the Blackthorn for Brown Hairstreak butterfly eggs and found one starting to bloom and then the elusive egg
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Rust, think Puccinia smyrnii, and leafmines, possibly from Celery Fly Euleia heraclei, both on Alexanders.
#WildWebsWednesday
3 months ago
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This week’s
#TheWinter10
- Ragwort, Red Deadnettle, Daisy, Common Field Speedwell, Dandelion, Smooth Sowthistle, Groundsel, Primrose, Periwinkle & Yarrow
#WildflowerHour
3 months ago
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BSBI Botany
4 months ago
Great to catch up with top gardening broadcaster Marian Foster on BBC Radio Newcastle today. We talked about how plant records collected by citizen scientists e.g. during
#NewYearPlantHunt
&
#WildFlowerHour
fed into new
#GBRedList
. Catch it here 3hrs 28 mins in:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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After downloading this pic of Ragwort I spotted a (sadly out of focus) little black beetle on a leaf between the buds and flowers.
#WildWebsWednesday
4 months ago
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RSPB
4 months ago
Absolutely shocking. We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases. We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
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This week’s
#TheWinter10
- Primrose, Green Alkanet, Common Ragwort, Petty Spurge, White Deadnettle, Daisy, Smooth Sowthistle, Burnet Saxifrage, Dandelion & Yarrow
#WildflowerHour
4 months ago
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BSBI Botany
4 months ago
We love the idea that wild & naturalised plants across Britain & Ireland are getting ready for the
#NewYearPlantHunt
! Ironing their petals, polishing their anthers... How about you humans? Have you planned your route & downloaded your spotter sheets? Helpful stuff here:
bsbi.org/take-part/ac...
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