Happy 99th Birthday to the greatest nature hero of all, Sir David Attenborough! 💚

A winter scene to soothe your timeline.

Just making sure that everyone is aware of this crab that NOAA scientists found

Did someone mention blue Monday? Have some blue flowers in my garden to make you smile instead 🌱

Did you know New Zealand and other south-west Pacific islands have LEAF-VEINED SLUGS?! Unlike their omnivorous European relatives, these unique leaf-mimicking slugs eat only fungi. They breathe mainly through the skin of the back, which is kept moist by secretions passing along the many grooves! 🧪

If you can, please plant a wildlife hedge instead of building a fence! It could help hedgehogs, hoverflies, bats, bumblebees, mice, moths, butterflies, blackbirds, frogs, fieldfares, solitary bees, squirrels... Here’s how: bit.ly/40YAjG7 #nature #biodiversity

If you spend any time in southern Europe next spring or summer look out for this amazing hoverfly, the Band-eyed Dronefly. Any ideas why it evolved eyes like this? I would like to know.

Early winter berry palette, for the possible dopamine it might trigger in your brain. The colour of spindle berries (bottom rightish) never seems quite real...

A little brightness in the gloom ❤️🧡✨ #FungiFriends #Mushroom

If you are against burning vast areas of land, + illegally persecuting raptors, so that a handful of toffs can slaughter grouse, please sign below...

Don't forget to think of the birds and other wildlife in this cold wintry weather. Blackbirds, and other birds in the thrush family (like this gorgeous Fieldfare) go mad for apples! And all wild life needs water... #birds #wildlife #nature #winter #snow 🪶🌿

Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is the Scaup, the UK’s rarest breeding duck! 🦆 Numbers build in winter as birds arrive from Iceland and Scandinavia, gracing our coastal waters. Look for their striking plumage and rounded heads as they dive in search of mussels & crustaceans.

Happy Thursday BlueSky! 💙💙

Zebra Cross-streak seen in the Riviera Maya in Mexico in November a few years ago.

Marasmius hudsonii- Holly Parachute 🍄📷 #FungiFriends

Chrysomphalina #fungifriends #forestfloor

Have an amazing day Bluesky! 💙

How about a little bit of Autumn joy today on Bluesky? 😊📸

100,000s of UK ponds have been filled in over recent decades. Even a small pond in your garden could help wildlife like frogs, toads, water boatmen, damselflies, dragonflies, insects, swallows, swifts, hedgehogs & foxes 🐸 More: bit.ly/2kDr2kh

Can we have a shout-out for the unsung heroes of the insect world? Hoverflies, beetles (like this red soldier beetle), moths and many other insects are important pollinators. To help them (and bees and butterflies), grow nectar-rich flowers and avoid pesticides. #biodiversity #pollinators #nature

A good place to see Silver-studded Blue butterflies is Prees Heath in Shropshire in June. If you find any freshly emerged specimens you may well see ants in close attendance. The larvae of this butterfly is looked after by the ants until it pupates. #butterflies

Help wildlife survive in winter: 🌱 Don’t cut back plants: birds feed on some seedheads 💧 Offer fresh water: natural sources may be frozen 🦔 Keep a corner wild for hibernating animals 🍏 Feed the birds: they lose weight quickly when it’s cold 🐝 Grow ivy: it’s great for wildlife! More: bit.ly/4gcHNKj

🪶 Stonechat balancing act

A last moth for now, the fabulous Elephant Hawk-Moth seen in May, June and July in my garden in Cheshire. They have a wingspan of up to 6cm. Easily attracted to light. #moths

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher timeline cleanse 📷🌿🪶

Good morning all here on Bluesky 😊🙌 Let's start the day with some Nature 📸🤩 #photography

This is so helpful! Thank you! 👍

A tiny butterfly, one of the smallest in Europe, the Grass Jewel. They are so small that they don't look like a Butterfly when they are fluttering around low growing vegetation. It is worth the effort to get a photo.

Wonderful to be included in this list! Please give these fantastic accounts a follow, and help spread the word about positive solutions to the nature and climate emergencies 🐝

This autumn and winter, please consider leaving dead plants in your garden rather than 'tidying' them up. Over the colder months they will provide sheltered spots for hibernating ladybirds and lots of other wildlife 🐞 #gardening #nature #biodiversity

Hope everyone is having a great Sunday 💙

UK supermarkets urged to stop using #neonics and other bee-toxic #pesticides. Call comes as @PAN_UK ranks supermarkets on efforts to protect consumers, farmworkers & wildlife from pesticides. Take action & see where your supermarket ranked: www.pan-uk.org/supermarkets/

(From the Twitter Archive #1) Deep in my valley is a tree so old it makes my bones ache. There are only a handful like it in the country, and its boughs harbour some of our oldest stories. Yet almost no-one has ever seen it. 🧵

Fruit trees benefit all sorts of wildlife, including bees, bats and birds. But around two thirds of UK orchards have been lost since 1960. Planting an apple tree in your garden or community can really help to boost biodiversity! How to choose one: bit.ly/45AFzhZ #nature #food #biodiversity

The Blue Jay 💙 their feathers appear blue due to light scattering, not because of blue pigment.They can live up to 26 years in the wild. 🐦💙📷 #bird #photography

The birds are still feasting on the sunflowers that I left to go to seed in the front garden. I see them swooping down to feed daily. So glad I didn't pull them out! 😊🌱

It’s so lovely to scroll through here and see posts. Just nice, real people posts and no ads or bots. This is such a great place to be, wish I had joined it much sooner! 😌💚

A good news story! Largest coral ever 'discovered'. (Meanwhile it was probably very well known to local communities and fisher people), however, great that it's been brought to international attention! 🪸🌊🌏🧪⚒️🦑

By piling leaves up in a corner of your little green space, you'll create a place for hedgehogs and insects to hide and hibernate. More tips to help garden wildlife this autumn: bit.ly/2MmgdxJ 🍂 #gardening #nature #biodiversity

Not a broken twig, but a Buff-tip Moth caterpillar. A master of disguise.

A Long-tailed Blue seen in Cyprus in July.

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. RT if you agree 🌳

Starter pack for the (relatively few) UK nature conservation organisations I'm aware of on here. go.bsky.app/6eCUJHB

Have a lovely weekend Bluesky! 😊💚💚

Trees 'sleep' at night 😴🌲 In 2016 researchers from the Centre for Ecological Research in Hungary pointed laser scanners at two birch trees, one in Austria & one in Finland. Between two hours after sunset and just before sunrise, the trees branches drooped by as much as 10cm🌳

What a real forest *ecosystem* looks like: wild, tangled, untamed. 🌍

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