Birdle 🇬🇧 24/05/2026 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My latest article, the 445th on NorthwestNatureandHistory looks at Common Bistort, the main ingredient in the distinctly northern dish Dock Pudding #Ecology #Botany #Recipes northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/05/23/c...

Birdle 🇬🇧 21/05/2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Just published: Part 2 of my 2-part series about the limestone pinnacle in the grounds of Clitheroe Castle which used to grace the Palace of Westminster #Clitheroe #Lancashire #Westminster #History northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/05/19/t...

Found a largish colony of Common Bistort today, in the north of England its leaves would be mixed with nettles to make ‘ledge’ pudding, traditionally eaten at Lent #Botany #wildflowers #Ecology @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

A Brief History of Lancashire Cheese Production #Lancashire #Cheese #History northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/05/17/a...

Mute Swans, Graceful Guardians of the Water #Ornithology #Ecology #Conservation #nature @btobirds.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @britishnatureguide.bsky.social northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/05/12/m...

Guess the City (Bonus point if you can guess the distant landmark) #GuessthePlace

Birdle 🇬🇧 10/05/2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Challenging the Consensus: Is Building More Homes Really the Solution to Britain’s Housing Crisis? #Housing #Policy #Countryside northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/05/09/c...

So cool when someone cites me like this, especially in such a lovely little blog, thanks Jorja! jbarrettueaecology.blog/?blogid=249383…

Don’t you just like it when you write a bit of (rubbish) poetry for an article about a butterfly and it turns out vaguely butterfly-shaped! #butterflies #Lepidoptery #Entomology #nature ✍️https://northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/05/06/speckled-woods/

Purple Saxifrage, Jewel of the High Fells #Botany #LakeDistrict #Nature @bsbibotany.bsky.social @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/05/02/p...

In my latest article I take an objective look at the springtime duties of an upland gamekeeper #gamekeeping #uplands #gameshooting #conservation northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/04/28/t...

Birdle 🇬🇧 29/04/2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

To celebrate St George’s Day I’ll be posting random photos of England all day, beginning with some I took at Whalley yesterday, enjoy! #StGeorgesDay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Birdle 🇬🇧 23/04/2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Just a few shots I took at Whalley today #Whalley #RibbleValley #Lancashire @visitlancashire.bsky.social @visitengland.bsky.social

In my latest article we pay a brief visit to Lancashire’s Read Park to look at its history and what could be lost should a 77-house development be built upon it #Lancashire #England #History northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/04/22/t...

St Peter’s Burnley, taken while running errands around town, I’ve got a week off and I’ve already done more than I would have at work! #Burnley #Lancashire

‘Storms there beat the stone-cliffs, where the tern answered him’ #ornithology #birdwatching #nature #naturewriting northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/04/18/n...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/mo...

r/RuralUk now has over 17k visitors a week! #reddit #RuralAffairs #Farming #Conservation #Nature

Today on #Northwestnatureandhistory we visit one of Padiham’s most well-known landmarks to learn about its history #Padiham #Lancashire northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/04/14/a...

The Stitchwort is blooming again in its hedgerow haunt, here’s a piece I wrote last spring about this lovely and often overlooked little wildflower: ➡️ northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2025/05/07/g... #wildflowerhour #botany #hedgerows #spring @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

My latest article looks at Armeria maritima, otherwise known as Thrift (it also features some of my awful poetry, so you can’t say I didn’t warn you!) #Seaside #Ecology #Botany #Nature #Wildflowerhour northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/04/09/n...

Lancashire Fair, Good Friday, Daisy Nook, 1946, painting by L.S. Lowry, 1887-1976 (Government Art Collection).

Happy Easter Everybody! 🐑 #Easter #Lambs

In my latest piece we look at the Bowland Nature Recovery Plan, a vision for a wilder landscape with a blind spot for those who keep it alive @moorlandassoc.bsky.social @forestofbowlandnl.bsky.social @gwct.org.uk northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/04/04/t...

Birdle 🇬🇧 03/04/2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spot the Adder #Spring #Nature #Wildlife

Lonely on fell as chat,
by pot-holed becks
a bird stone-haunting, an unquiet bird. #Spring #Birdwatching #Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/04/01/s...

Let’s show how much we care about the environment by trampling the spring flowers and scaring the crap out of all the wildlife, great idea @theguardian.com @xrglobal.bsky.social theguardian.com/environment/20…

Blackthorn in bloom, Will we have a Blackthorn winter this year? ❄️ #spring #weather #nature ➡️https://northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2023/04/13/beware-the-blackthorn-winter/

Birdle 🇬🇧 28/03/2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/mo...

The Cowslips are back on the Greenway 🌼 #Spring #Flowers #Nature #Padiham

Just published on #Northwestnatureandhistory The latest addition to my #NorthwestRecipes collection, adapted from the original in the medieval Libre Cure Cocorum; Chekyns in Cretene 🐓 #Medieval #Recipes #Lancashire northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/03/27/n...

my latest article on #Northwestnatureandhistory I look at Ichneumon sarcitorius, the White-striped Darwin Wasp #Entomology #Insects #Wasps #Nature @royentsoc.bsky.social northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/03/26/i...

Whitby, The Abbey of St Hilda, painting by Albert Goodwin (1845-1932).

Birdle 🇬🇧 26/03/2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Hard to know which is more shocking - the dire warnings of the potential collapse of our food system in the UK or the fact that governments have tried to cover it up. Their complacency is off the scale. We urgently need to switch to growing more food domestically & to restore nature now

Forest City project now not going ahead due to “no clear route to delivery with no evidence of local political or landowner support, in addition to no developer interest to date” #Albion #Forestcity #Development @paulpowlesland.bsky.social @shivmalik.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/c...

Fire at Scout moor windfarm tonight (📸 Carl Greenhalgh) #windfarms #renewables #Scoutmoor #Lancashire #Manchester

Stratified some seeds from a wild apple tree I found last year, now we’ve got seedlings! 🍎🌱 #apple #seedlings #foraging #orchard #gardening

Equal day and night if it rains it will harvest the pensive cuckoo (✍️Andawn F. ) #SpringEquinox #spring 🌖 #meteorology #NatureScenery northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2024/03/19/t...

Birdle 🇬🇧 21/03/2026 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This weekend marks the 64th anniversary of the Hapton Valley Colliery Disaster #Coal #Mining #History #Lancashire northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2026/03/20/t...

Clitheroe castle currently looks like a present waiting to be unwrapped, it’s had a lot of work done since it was restored in 1848, I wonder what it will look like when they’ve finished? #Clitheroe #Castle #Ribblevalley #Lancashire

Latest posts on r/ruralUK on reddit ➡️Flytippers to be forced into “clean up squads reddit.com/r/RuralUK/s/hg… ➡️ One in 3 Scots back pause on Salmon farm growth reddit.com/r/RuralUK/s/dQ�#farming##countrysiden#UKs#newsUK #news