Sunset with dandelion clock. Feeling chilly as night draws in.

Fantastic morning spent with @AmandaTuke urban plant hunting around Stoke canals & talking about her exceptionally inspiring new book Wild Pavements 🌱 📘 "Expect nature to be wherever you are, and you'll start experiencing our cities completely differently" #NatureWriting #BookSky #UKCanals

It's been a while since I shared this 💚 I've added some new contributors from #dailynature (👋 @iand777.bsky.social & @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social ) Are you writing on nature? Know someone great to add to the list? go.bsky.app/RUhJfc6 #Nature #NatureWriting #Environmentalism #NaturePoetry #Green

A two beat warning followed by a short stepping four stopped morse code bow, black orb rising out from pussy willow frills, eyes appearing on the orb then banana beak as it dives over the roof onto next doors bow. Blackbirds rarely stand on boats, or do they just prefer black boats? #Birdsky #boats

Nature is incredible, I've woken up still reeling from such a jolly encounter 💚

What a gift today has been 💚 I've never seen a stoat so close, despite originally naming our boat after them - this little one wasn't bothered about my presence, much more concerned about a rather large crow! #Nature #NatureVideo #Stoat #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting

Glints of gold dust themselves across the verge, blinking slowly away into a seminar of green - carrot speckled now, cabbage flickering next, apricot slices fluttering against gravity. First orange tip butterfly spotted from afar, delicate wings dipped in tangerine mod eyeshadow. #NatureWriting

Simply an excellent tree

Aerfen the river spirit cries over the Chester basin today, that cold sap of spring, the glue that brings forth flowers, strung in diamonds across sleeping spiders paths - a sky that sings with tears as the birds do with their feathers. #NatureWriting #DailyNature #AprilShowers

Goodbye to March & Hello April The final Ostara #DailyNature Community challenge blog is now up for reading/ listening along Complete with a positive environmental news roundup 💚 tinyurl.com/springfinifu... #Nature #NaturePoetry #NatureWriting #Finifugal #Spring #Water

Goodbye to March & Hello April The final Ostara #DailyNature Community challenge blog is now up for reading/ listening along Complete with a positive environmental news roundup 💚 tinyurl.com/springfinifu... #Nature #NaturePoetry #NatureWriting #Finifugal #Spring #Water

Chutney throats flash past, polar bellies dive, caped by navy feathers ending in a stars bow legged stance - spotted my first swallows of the year, flown over as a three, twisting, turning, torn by the wind - warning me of flash clouds now wobbling my boat about 🐦 #bird #birdoftheday

Really thrilled to receive this lovely review on Apple Podcasts! 😃

UK Government Petition to end the sewage scandal! Sign here #Environment #Pollution #Water #UKCanals #Nature #NatureWriting you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

Two early-flowering species of acid woodland seen this week - the delicate star-like flowers of Hairy Wood-rush growing close to the even more understated flowers of Pill Sedge #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

UK Government Petition to end the sewage scandal! Sign here #Environment #Pollution #Water #UKCanals #Nature #NatureWriting you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

April, aperire, to open and so the world does. That fresh cucumber slice of morning drift as nights fig dress turns to a buttery morning gold has me awake and open to the world. Good morning everyone ☀️ #Morning #Nature #Sunrise

I see from the #birds feed that the ospreys are back! This is me trying to summon one by posting a photo 🌿

Catching up on reading this Easter Sunday 🐇 Accidental poetry from @martinbr.bsky.social 'The earth does not need our permission to laugh. It does not need our permission to flower. It needs us to stop doing the things that silence it.' #NatureWriting #poetry open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...

Wishing you a peaceful Easter! 🐣 😂🐇👋

Bird place-name of the day 144, cont. crane series: CRANNAFORD (Dev). OE cran + ford. ‘Cranes’ ford’. Cranbrook, the more obvious of the two in the map, is a brand new town! The name was presumably borrowed from Crannaford. (Bonus rook place in there too!) #PlaceNames #birdsandplace #naturewriting

It didn't behave like anything you had ever imagined. The wind tore at the trees, the rain fell for days slant and hard. The back of the hand to everything. I watched... Mary Oliver, The Hurricane I saved 2 cars this week from 2 fly-away trollies. 1 with a Scotty dog cheering me on. #NaturePoetry

Wind, 1 word, 2 sounds, 3 meanings 1. Wih-nd, said like the action, natural, 90mphr incoming, strikes down warrior trees into canals 2. Whih-ndin, as in winding hole, used to turn my boat, difficult in the above 3. Wy-nd, similar but taught like the ropes used to batten down during a storm #canals

The Librarians are not the enemy. Great piece on this nightmarish conduct @katiedd.bsky.social. I stocked these books in my school library, issuing them with care/ age restrictions too. The librarian was threatened with disciplinary action, labeled a safeguarding risk & resigned. Follow up below.

Church windows strapped to the back of a chocolate mining bee, fuzzily grasping pillowy petals of a blackthorn blooming tree, is greeted by the windy echos of robin and chiffchaff. #NatureWriting #BloomScrolling #DailyNature #Bees

Oh April, how you fall. With invisible rain camouflaging blossom, diving feathered hunger gliding floats of tourists, overzealous plans needy comfort speeches of air quiet of heart. A year just falls apart #NaturePoetry #April

Today is the last day of #dailynature challenge and I want to thank all that consistently brought joy to this month. You may or not have sensed that I have been all over the place (physically and organisationally) but I really appreciate this little nature corner of the world 💚 what a privelege!

'so many singers, none on the same page' 🧡

Fantastic thread to end March with!

Watching. From kitchen window. The tree creeper (certhia familiaris) creeps, weaves, hangs, spirals around the Apple tree bole. It was movement, seemingly of the bark itself, that gave away ‘ki’ presence before id of white belly and tweezer bill. 🌱 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 31/03

The king fishers are mostly on my bow but alas never when my camera is in hand!

What an excellent thought and question - Can anyone confirm some definitions/ etymology I believe there is: Vernalagnia - Spring fever (slightly mocking?) Vernorexia - mood or love brought on by Spring/ social media trend? Verbal - relating to spring 'a vernal mood / joy' #words #etymology

Toothwort looking magnificent for this week’s #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social #DailyNature

#DailyNature Denim sky pockets bulge full of blackbirds and robins. One in see saw the other twiddles and trills. Lullabies for children who forget the sun comes again. I thought this month only had thirty days, then remembered the extra one. 'see, we'll still be here tomorrow' they sing.

Good morning - or is it? 'The planning application received almost 800 objections, including the local councillors' My friend writes of her local meadows an SNCI site, where hearts have been pushed to their limits to no avail: open.substack.com/pub/theevery... #NatureWriting #Environment #Nature

The latest episode of Water Book Club🌊💙📘 is up to be listened/ watched/ read 🎧📺📖 ✏️ Hannah Pierce 📖 All Boats Are Sinking On living on a boat on the UK waterways, writing honestly in memoir, neurodiversity & humour open.substack.com/pub/jenratcl... #UKCanals #Narrowboat #Books #BookClub #Substack

Deluge shatters new blooms, cherry, apple, honeysuckle blossoms, petal tip in grip, survivors parading on rainbows, spells cast from gold lipped evening, dusk, darkness, rolling over and on again. #DailyNature

A little different adventure with nature today #dailynature

Fascinating 🦫

Roaming until the world dims. #7syllablesentence #roam #blueskypoets #nature #sunset

In case you’re also a fan of pansies and violas here are a few more. Dopamine from pansies= pansamine ✔️🌿

The sound of crow song Through the slant of rain Soothes my mind After a restless night #DailyNature #naturepoetry

The sun segments the bed into an orange. I sit on one wedge, candied by spring. My work on a darker, brooding slice. A spider drops like a jewel thief onto the keyboard's metal jaw. When I'm watching TV - the spider stays, instead it leaves. I hear imaginerary eyes rolling on exit... #DailyNature

In the spring/summer months, it's a different kettle of fish. It's the hedgerows that are their main food source then. The volume & variety of food types that they bring into the young wrenlets is astonishing - 20/30 visits per hour over a 16 hr daylight period.

Frost is on the forecast, but it is warm and cosy on the boat tonight. Why not settle around our fire as our thoughts turn to Spring and the special joy of the feeling of sunshine on your shoulders. #podcast #ukcanals #spring #mentalwellbeing #plants www.noswpod.com/seeds-of-spr...

#DailyNature & #photography Under the willow tree March 2026 : : : The old willow in the park wears her twigs like golden hair, letting it dance in the wind. #Berlin #trees #willows #nature

My Good Morning #DailyNature post from Marbury, Cheshire. Sunrise on the Llangollen Canal. The #FirstBirdOfMyDay today was a noisy back-door robin, followed by blackbird, barn owl, wren, thrush, crow, Fieldfare, yellowhammer… lots to see and listen to early in the day!

Caution Wet Wren at Work! A slomo view, (x10 times⬇️), of troglodytes - straight out of the bath & back to work. 'If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it' #DailyNature #weedypond @wellmanneredxs.bsky.social

Just 15 minutes away!

Clouds the chin of a fin whale, Impasto striped pearl glades in pebble swathes, a single cluster cauliflower unfurls it's slow body: caterpillar dragon soup. Air prepared for show, Listen to what you can see. #DailyNature #NatureWriting #NaturePoetry #Poetry #Sky #Nature #Photography #Colour