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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! 💛

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!

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

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

#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-...

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...

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!

Pollen beetles love Dandelions! #WildWebsWednesday

Mistletoe growing high up in this tree. Not sure what species, any suggestions? #WildWebsWednesday

#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

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

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

#SignsOfSpring this week: Coltsfoot, a few early Blackthorn flowers (old sloe in view), Elder leaf burst and a soggy Lesser Celandine. #WildflowerHour

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

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]

Lesser Celandine, white Sweet Violet, Primrose, Common Field Speedwell, Hairy Bittercress, Ground Ivy, Common Chickweed, Cherry Plum, Dandelion & Snowdrops #TheWinter10 #WildflowerHour

A Pollen Beetle feeding on Crocus pollen. #WildWebsWednesday

Lots of 7-spot ladybirds waking up in the Spring like weather and emerging from Ivy to sun themselves. #WildWebsWednesday

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...

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

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?...

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...

Some news about People Need Nature peopleneednature.org.uk

Assumed Whitewash lichen plus moss on Ash #WildWebsWednesday

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?

This week’s #TheWinter10 - Hazel, Red Deadnettle, Snowdrops, Common Chickweed, Common Field Speedwell, Groundsel, Small Nettle, Daisy, Periwinkle & Cyclamen #WildflowerHour

A Lime hedge hosting assumed Crepidotus and Exidia sp, plus Common Orange Lichen. #WildWebsWednesday

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...

This week’s #TheWinter10 Cyclamen, Yew, Crocus, Dandelion, Snowdrop, Primrose, Common Field Speedwell, Stinking Hellebore, Winter Aconite & Hazel #WildflowerHour

It would be great to get some more signatures on this #PeatFree petition: actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal... #Gardening #UKGardeners #GardensHour #WildflowerHour

Springtails living underneath a Jelly-ear fungus which in turn is growing on an old Elder #WildWebsWednesday

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

7-spot Ladybird sunning itself on an Ivy leaf. #WildWebsWednesday

This week’s #TheWinter10 - Common Field Speedwell, Groundsel, Yarrow, Hazel (flower & catkin), Stinking Hellebore, Primrose, Common Ragwort, Daisy, Dandelion & Red Deadnettle #WildflowerHour

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...

Horrid weather this week so didn’t go out looking for flowers but walked past the Stinking Hellebore growing by the village pond. #WildflowerHour

Tiny, but surprisingly hardy Nigma walckenaeri seen active while it was snowing! Think it might be drinking melted snow on this Ivy leaf. #WildWebsWednesday

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

Late for #WildflowerHour - #NYPH results. IDs in Alt text

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

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!

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

Rust, think Puccinia smyrnii, and leafmines, possibly from Celery Fly Euleia heraclei, both on Alexanders. #WildWebsWednesday

This week’s #TheWinter10 - Ragwort, Red Deadnettle, Daisy, Common Field Speedwell, Dandelion, Smooth Sowthistle, Groundsel, Primrose, Periwinkle & Yarrow #WildflowerHour

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/...

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

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.

This week’s #TheWinter10 - Primrose, Green Alkanet, Common Ragwort, Petty Spurge, White Deadnettle, Daisy, Smooth Sowthistle, Burnet Saxifrage, Dandelion & Yarrow #WildflowerHour

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...