Male blackcap on the Somerset Levels yesterday. Billions of mozzies, along with warblers, esp garden, sedge and reed, cuckoos, bitterns, egrets, marsh harriers, bitterns calling, swifts. Dragonflies and damsels downed by the torrential rain.

After 5 years of hard graft to make local council land into a nature reserve and place for people to enjoy our notice board glass was smashes by vandals...shame

The usual crew visiting our garden last night. Haven't seen the hedgegog again though. #wildlife #garden #springwatch

Southern Marsh orchid on coastal landslide in south Devon today #wildflowerhour +2, plus sanicle in nearby damp woodland

Before, during and after repair. Wonderful work on a drystone wall on the edge of Bath today

Very late #wildflowerhour hedgerows. Yellow archangel, ramsoms, bluebell and wood melick in Bath. Orange tip on cuckoo flower, where more grassy, making an appearance. Good year for butterflies so far.

Not very original for #cabbagefamily #wildflowerhour but lovely cuckoo flower nevertheless

A wonderful week at the @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social. Thanks to Martin and Jodie, and Mark Cutts. New sightings included curlew sandpipers and a whinchat. Lots of wheatears, warblers and bountiful sea life on the Bill. 100s of linnets & a wall butterfly. Enjoyed meeting the palmate newts too!

These irreplaceable old growth forests continue to be logged across British Columbia. Over 1,200 people have been arrested trying to keep them standing. There is no time to waste. Protect the Irreplaceable. #ActOnClimate #climate #nature @bcndp #bcpoli #bcgov Pic @TJWattPhoto

Fox and badger visited our garden last night again...but certainly not intentionally together

How long would a commercial airplane take to reach the planets? The distances that make conventional space travel impossible

Female kingfisher at Shapwick Heath NNR in Somerset today

An explosion of biting insects this arvo at Hall Wall RSPB NNR Somerset...sounded like small planes flying over. Good for the birds. First hobby and dragonfly seen...the latter saved from the loo...

Simply stunning.... #Exmoor in North Devon yesterday.

Wood sorrel today #Wildflowerhour #bsbi

Watched through sitting room window yesterday - this woodmouse was on a mission to collect red berries and hoard them in its nest/store.

Glorious Gloucestershire's wild daffs #bsbi #wildflowerhour

Sweet violets in Gloucestershire #bsbi late #wildflowerhour

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...

One of Bath's long closed graveyards with amazing display of daffs and primroses...possibly both native varieties #wildflowerhour

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It’s great to see lots of new followers & interaction with #wildflowerhour! 🥰 If you are new it’s so easy to join in! Find wild or naturalised blooms (not planted ones) from across Britain & Ireland & share during the magic hour Sunday’s 8-9pm when we have a proper planty party!! 🎉🌿🌸

Somerset Levels were hugely flooded today, leaving very little grassland for this kestrel. Cattle egrets, lapwings and starlings scattered in large flocks amongst muddy cattle grazed fields. A firecrest was another highlight. #birds

More graveyard Snowdrops in Bath #wildflowerhour

A lovely walk around Sherston in the Cotswolds today. Lots of winter thrushes and starlings plus flocks of skylarks I think. Pleased to see a cattle egret amongst little egrets circling the grazing cattle, and a red kite overhead...how times have changed...

Found when moving the patio pots around...frog

Graveyard Snowdrops in Bath #wildflowerhour

Two lifers for me today, both at Shapwick Heath NNR in Somerset: a penduline tit and an American wigeon. The PT was distant. Also an accommodating stonechat kept me company @naturalengland.bsky.social

Rather handsome chap from last weekend at WWT Langford Lakes...a ring-necked duck I believe.

Unraveling the Mystery of Siberian Warblers in Europe: New Research Sheds Light on Yellow-browed Warbler and Siberian Chiffchaff Migration Patterns forktail.co.uk/2024/12/17/u... Interesting bit of birding geekery.

Parasol mushroom in the New Forest yesterday

Some more fantastic fungi from the New Forest yesterday

Lots of wonderful fungi in the New Forest. Especially rich in Boletus...blue staining.

Tragic

Sneezewort flowering near Bath #wildflowerhour

Purple is the colour of the moment Purple loosetrife #wildflowerhour

Wonderful swifts screaming around Exford and I think trying to coax out the nestlings

What better on a stinking hot Saturday than a walk in the woods...Horner Wood in Somerset - temperate rainforest with lots of bilberry to sustain us, common cow-wheat and masses of heath fritillary butterflies #wildflowerhour

On #nationalmeadowsday congratulations to Friends of Lyncombe Hill Fields on the last 5 years of effort to manage a little part of Bath and do our bit for diversity

Nice bit of flow country in Scotland

A week late - north Scotland did not disappoint. But it never does #wildflowerhour

Taken this weekend on my phone so quality poor, but this tunnel of vegetation along an old cobbled lane in Somerset was wonderful...

Bee, common spotted, pyramidal and twayblade at the American Mueseum in Bath. First marbled whites flying. #wildflowerhour

Great view

Bath Asparagus near Bath... #wildflowerhour

#wildflowerhour Townhall clock in profusion in Gloucestershire