Words definitely not minced.

Not where I expected to see my first Cuckoo of rhe year.

@hostingercom.bsky.social notice that my website is virtually unfindable. Not sure how long this has been going on. Email also gone downhill since recent AI 'upgrades'. Also no help available online. Looks like I'll be moving on at the end of contract.

A late one for #WildflowerHour #tinyplants.. I took these whilst photographing Pasqueflowers several weeks ago, but still haven't figured out what it is. My guess is a very tiny Hairy Violet - but I've never seen I've this small! @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #PlantID

I was stopped in my tracks this week by an exquisite double petalled cuckoo flower in Killarney National Park in County Kerry. #WildflowerHour

Corn Buttercup (I presume) in Manchester this week, probably from a 'Wildflower' mix. #wildflowerhour

A new plant for me this week. Toothed Medick Medicago polymorpha. #wildflowerhour

It's a tough one this, so many great Butterflies to choose from. Ultimately I tried to think of which one os the most thrilling. I think it goes back to childhood and seeing my first ones. Still breathtaking 46 years on. britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk/butterfly/or... Orange-tip

I'm not a huge fan of her but she's absolutely right. Where is the vision and where is the fight with Starmer? He gives off the air of a man who would rather not be noticed. It doesn't suit a leader or a PM.

After months of work my Norfolk Pseudoscorpion guide for @norfolknats.bsky.social is now on the website free to see/download. Covers 20 species recorded in Norfolk so hopefully useful for other areas of UK. norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...

I wouldn't be surprised if that Zack Polanski had taken books back to the library late.

Beachy Head: Just found an eastern subalpine warbler in cow gap @BirdGuides maps.app.goo.gl/aAtoKB3eZM31h6…

BBC write up about Barcelona winning La Liga against fierce rivals Real Madrid. I've got my doubts unless the majority of Barcelona fans are from Rochdale.

Welsh Poppy in my back yard with #BOGOF albino Herb Robert. #wildflowerhour

The frost had melted into dew drops on this freshly opened Common Poppy. #wildflowerhour

The low light illuminated the drooping flowers of this Barren Brome in South Yorkshire this week. #wildflowerhour

A surprise hoar-frost on these Meadow Buttercups in South Yorkshire this week. #wildflowerhour

@amiesphilip.bsky.social great reading your memoirs, (still need a paperback though!). One thing that resonated. I'm proud of where I've got to in terms of being a naturalist, so far.

They really are the best of us.

Has anyone looked at the correlation between incidence of inbreeding and Reform voting?

An important thing to consider before celebrating that GB News has posted massive losses or lost advertisers. They don't care, they're not into it to make money directly.

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

10 rabbis (and two pastors) were arrested after blocking traffic in front of ICE offices yesterday. This powerful protest capped a mass mobilization of over 200 Jews in New York — part of the national Jews Demand: ICE OUT! Day of Action, led by @truahrabbis.bsky.social and Bend the Arc. See more ➡️

Harbour Porpoise showing magnificently on the Mersey at Festival Gardens, South Liverpool this evening.

Anyone know how old David Attenborough is? It's a question in a pub quiz and I don't want to look it up.

I am so fucking sick of AI. I know it will have its uses but as an example of how it makes so many things shitter. My email provider reconfigured its platform to give me 'Great new AI features'. 1/3

Had my usual bad luck photographing Cetti's Warbler at Burton Mere RSPB reserve today. Managed a nice little video though, with some good stretching.

Happy Shit Joke Day to everyone who celebrates.

We missed #WorldRobberFlyDay but it's still #FlyWeek! Check out this amazing robber fly [ #Asilidae ] from Kerala, India 😮❗😍 Thanks to Dr. P.K. Sumodan for sharing with the society and thanks especially to Lakshmi Prajath for photographing this beauty! 📸

Have any self-employed people found an accounting app that's any good? I thought I might get ahead of the MTD nonsense that the govt have brought in. Subscribed to Sage. Ok for a month but now I've spent 24 hours trying to send a single invoice. Help non existent due to AI enshittificaton.

Just piss off, whydontcha

48 hours later and the only outlet to follow up this story has been the National in Scotland Call me old fashioned but think destroying information with a legal hold on it and a disclosure to Serious Fraud is pretty important stuff open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Hawthorn for #wildflowerhour

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty down about my small business. I’m working so hard but it’s been very quiet. It’s bloody difficult at the moment. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

Nice unexpected start to the day - 7 Black-winged Stilt on Porth Coose beach this morning St Agnes #islesofscilly

Any day with a new jumping spider is a good one. This is a bit of a whopper too, at up to 8mm. From Canford Heath, Dorset. Aelurillus v-insignitus.

@beardedtit18.bsky.social I'm in your area tomorrow. Well, Canford Heath for a few hours in the afternoon.

MAGA saying it can't be a statue of Jesus, he's not orange enough.

Four petals but not a Cabbage. Holly flowers for #wildflowerhour

I agree totally on the high prices. The electricity tied to gas price seems to be 'necessary' for investors to receive what they consider to be adequate profit. A national approach presumably means we could decouple and see these as an investment in energy security.

This video illustrates the "levante" phenomenon on the Rock of Gibraltar. The "levante" is an east wind carrying moisture from the Mediterranean. When it encounters the rock's steep terrain, it rises, cools, and condenses, creating clouds, mist, and fog. 📹 Met Office

Touch choice as to what was organism of the trip from my weekend in London. Plane Groundbug Arocatus longiceps or White Pelican in Green Park.

Spending my birthday in London with the family.

Does anybody else get this from Bluesky? All replies greyed out, only way of changing that is to restart phone, even then it's likely to revert to grey after a couple of minutes.

Ah well, these journalists, when picking through the ashes of western civilisation, can at least say that they tried.

Happy foil-wrapped chocolate-flavoured egg* day to all who celebrate. *Probably can't even call them chocolate-flavoured eggs now.

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

I bet the Venn diagram of people moaning about British Summer Time and those doing dawn breeding bird surveys is two pretty distant circles.

Changed the battery on my laptop last night and feeling moderately pleased with myself.

Letting US military launch attacks from UK bases is complicit in acts of terrorism and also putting the live of British people at risk