On behalf of the elderly people dying in their homes today The baby birds dying in their nests And the insect larvae dying in drying ponds A massive, heartfelt fuck you to the oil industry and its enablers

While nature recovery can help mitigate climate change, I’m increasingly unconvinced by arguments focusing on ‘natural climate solutions’ They bias conservation towards habitats thought to hold more carbon And can imply emissions can be simply offset by planting loads of trees, etc

Migration *is* climate adaptation It has been our main form of climate adaptation since forever, just as it is for every species

All of the female members of my family are in agreement. And I default my support to their opinion. Toilets and changing rooms must be used on basis of biological sex, guidance confirms

View from the bottom of a ‘Wildlife Pond’ Biodiversity Net Gain #BNG

Should I ever be reincarnated as roasted veg, I’d be chuffed if the universe decided on carrot.

One of the old turnstiles (quite fancy really) in the long defunct cattle fence between the dunes and saltmarsh at Brancaster. A remnant of when the marsh was grazed. Opinions vary greatly on when this practice came to an end.

I’ve driven past this AA ‘sentry box’ at Brancaster hundreds of times, but never really looked. Grade 2 listed and one of only twenty or so that remain. I bet someone (possibly as geeky as me) has made a pilgrimage to all of them.

We're sometimes shy about allegiances but how will you vote? Please share! I'm a floating butterfly voter agonising between Purple Emperor, Brown Argus, Swallowtail, Brimstone and Large Tortoiseshell (so exciting it is back!) @savebutterflies.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Nightjar singing on Salthouse Heath this evening @themarshtit.bsky.social @bull-of-the-bog.bsky.social @wildernorfolk.bsky.social @jakefiennes.bsky.social @tonyjuniper.bsky.social

If you have an hour or so to kill in Cambridge, I can highly recommend the Whipple Museum. Scientific instruments of all kinds and free to get in. 🔭🔬⚗️

New green lane and couple of decent margins and you’ve got a nice little corridor up to that wood.

If anyone needs a dead Otter, there’s one by the side of the road on side of the road on Costessey Lane, between Ringland Road and Field Road. @norfolknats.bsky.social

@saloplarus.bsky.social is the really bright ‘star’ right an inch or two, down an inch or two actually a planet?

I have not even a shred of artististic ability, but it was genuinely inspiring to spend a little time with the Society of Wildlife Artists today at their spring residency - Little Massingham Estate. The restored Common/Heath goes from strength to strength. share.google/ESrKyKGMElxR...

Holding water in arid west Norfolk landscapes has become a high priority nature recovery ambition. Leaky dams are just the job. This one in a woodland chalk stream trib. Lovely amphibian habitat behind.

Tell me you’re getting in a forester’s wagon, without telling me…..

I miss them. ‘Pinks’, pink footed geese flighting to roost over our local shopping street in Wells next the Sea just before Christmas. Now in Iceland or Greenland. Hopefully safe. Still , I hope to hear a Nightingale soonish. @wildernorfolk.bsky.social @tonyjuniper.bsky.social

Visit Duxford and support the museum. It’s fantastic. That said, boys days out these days tend to revolve around waiting for someone to come back from needing a piss. Getting older is a bit rubbish. But better than the alternative.

Lily. Less than useless.

Sap’s up

The enigmatic sight and sounds of Ravens at WKH will fit the emerging landscape perfectly. Fantastic project with a trio of approaches.

Some signs that have made me smile lately.

Cool! 👇

Dedicated work from the Morston Pond team 👍

Well done Nick, well done NWT.

Coots

The oldest, and (quite possibly) the best. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If we'd never dream of letting the Palace of Westminster crumble, why are we risking the collapse of our own unique natural habitats? Norfolk holds 10% of the world's rare chalk streams - living, breathing treasures found almost nowhere else on Earth 🌏 Protecting them isn't optional.

Pretty sure this is the thickest Ivy plant I’ve seen. The single stem at the base was a least 40cm diameter. 100+ years old maybe? Would welcome thoughts/comments.

Autumn harvest, spring treat.

Nice to see this level of care taken 👍

My formative years were in the 80s. It wasn’t always great, but I loved my youth. It was cool and edgy and intriguing. I genuinely reckon it’s a bit shit now for young people. But I really hope I’m wrong and I’m missing something that younger eyes can see.

This should fly out the door.

Personally speaking, not high up my priority list. Or on it. But if no public money involved, a decent chance of working and will do no harm - then good luck to them.

Carl and Co (NPP) epitomise that sweet spot between science and action. I think we are all growing tired of conservation yap and spin, so these guys being maestros of delivery makes them heroes to my mind.

Funny old times. But you can still have sausages in the woods. So that’s ok.

What’s next then? Will he invade the moon? Or claim ownership of air?

Sex & drugs & RocknRoll seem like a very long time ago now.

Toads. I love toads. Best toads ever are toads on the way home from the pub. Toads are fucking excellent.

A pond restored in 2015. Stunning structural complexity & very high biodiversity in its 3 planty zones. Right in the middle of an arable field but no drainage in & a good buffer. Farming & conservation working together. This is what we MUST DO! @wildernorfolk.bsky.social @tonyjuniper.bsky.social

Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.

Got nipped by a big prawn 🤿

At the end of the Nightjar season we are very proud to have completed the first year in collaboration with Natural England facilitating the study of feeding areas away from the breeding site. 20 birds ringed of which 14 were pulli, 6 GPS tags fitted with 5 retrieved, which obtaining some good data.

A gloomy and overcast post work snorkel, but much brighter beneath the waves. Norfolk’s hidden treasures.

Swallowtail caterpillar munching fennel in a friend’s Broads garden. Conservation implications? Fennel rich mixes in arable adjacent to wetlands? (Pic, Rick Southwood).

More and better habitat required. Every farm should have at least one decent sized high quality habitat creation project, alongside options for mixes and margins etc. The need for well ADVISED schemes paying a fair rate has never been greater. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

Barn Owl monitoring on the Sandringham estate, despite parts of East Anglia reporting a bad year, these boxes did well from 21 boxes, we had 15 in use, with 11 with chicks, total of 31 young, with the largest brood being 4. @btobirds.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social @wildernorfolk.bsky.social

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First year ever the fig tree has produced something edible.