Volunteering with the Sussex @savebutterflies.bsky.social reserve group today. We have opened up a significant area of Park Corner Heath today at the back of the site. Hopefully lots of violets to come up in the spring.

Lovely sunny day out with the @southdownsnp.bsky.social volunteers on Whitbread Hollow, Beachy Head today. Clearing scrub to help the ponies a cess more grassland to graze.

A white or very light coloured Clustered bellflower seen today on #EastbourneDownland. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Wild Basil and Wild Thyme both still in flower this week on the #EastbourneDownland #wildflowerhour

Field scabious still in flower this week on the #EastbourneDownland #wildflowerhour

Selfheal still in flower this week in East Sussex #wildflowerhour

Burnet-saxifrage still in flower this week on the #EastbourneDownland. #wildflowerhour

Stone parsley still in flower in Hastings this week #wildflowerhour

Vermilion and Snowy waxcaps seen at Belle Toute, East Sussex today @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #waxcaps

Had a walk on the beach at Birling gap this afternoon. No Biobeads found ( thankfully), but it also made me look at wildlife I hadn't recorded before -seaweed and egg cases. It is good to get out of your comfort zone occasionally 😊 @strandliners.bsky.social

Our first visit to Charleston Reedbed today with @sussexornitholo.bsky.social to clear blackthorn scrub from the Reedbed. A warm day and we saw a Red Admiral plus a darter dragonfly which took a liking to Dave's head!

Volunteering today with the @southdownsnp.bsky.social at Arlington Reservoir. We were creating a woven hazel fence to encourage people to keep to the path to the bird hide and out of dormouse areas

Out with Alex the #EastbourneDownland officer this morning clearing scrub to open up grazing in the chalk grassland at Shooters Bottom

Greater knapweed still in flower this week in the @southdownsnp.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Clustered bellflower still in flower on Eastbourne Downs, East Sussex this week. #wildflowerhour

Burnet rose still in flower this week on Eastbourne Downs, East Sussex #wildflowerhour

A great @savebutterflies.bsky.social work party at Park Corner Heath, East Sussex today. A significant amount of habitat managed at the rear of the heathland #volunteerpower

New #GBRedList for vascular plants is out now as a special issue of #BritishandIrishBotany, the @bsbibotany.bsky.social's Open Access scientific journal: britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bi... Also available (cost £10) as an eBook: bsbi.org/publications... Press release: bsbi.org/wp-content/u...

Scrub removal below Belle Toute near Eastbourne today to manage the chalk grassland with the #EastbourneDownland ranger Alex and @southdownsnp.bsky.social volunteers

Out scrub clearing with the @southdownsnp.bsky.social volunteers today at Blackstone Down - before and after photos!

Out with the @southdownsnp.bsky.social volunteers today making rides in the scrub on the edge of the chalk grassland at Belle Tout #EastbourneDownland

Weasel's snout seen in flower in the bedding areas outside the seed bank at Wakehurst Place this week #wildflowerhour

Nottingham Catchfly in flower this week on Dungerness RSPB reserve #wildflowerhour

Marsh Mallow in flower this week on Rye Harbour nature reserve #wildflowerhour

Twiggy Mullein in flower this week on Winchelsea beach, East Sussex #wildflowerhour

A great day around Rye Harbour and Castle Water today - 60 species of birds seen/heard including Brent geese, Pintail, Ringed Plover and a single Grey Plover @sussexornitholo.bsky.social

Carline and Musk thistles seen today on #EastbourneDownland. #wildflowerhour

Not a particularly promising day to see butterflies today, so delighted to see Small heath, Small Copper, Common blue, Red Admiral plus a Clouded Yellow at Crapham Bottom on the #EastbourneDownland

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Out with the @southdownsnp.bsky.social volunteers today managing on Haven brow on Seven Sisters Country Park today. We got to see the Scrub munching machine in action too!

Saw our first Fly agaric of the year today in Abbot's Wood in East Sussex. Plus plenty of other fungus 🍄🍄

Helping cut and rake the chalk grassland on part of Belle Toute today with the @southdownsnp.bsky.social volunteers and #EastbourneDownland volunteers

Great day at Rye harbour today - total of 61 species of birds seen/ heard including a Glossy Ibis seen flying over Castle Water about 3.30pm. @sussexornitholo.bsky.social

Devil's-bit scabious in flower on Eastbourne downs today #wildflowerhour

Hemp agrimony seen flowering today on Eastbourne downs #wildflowerhour

Field scabious seen on Eastbourne downs today #wildflowerhour

Flowering ivy seen today on the Eastbourne downs #wildflowerhour

The Eider duck is still visible from Eastbourne seafront near the Holywell end @sussexornitholo.bsky.social

We had a wonderful evening at the Royal Albert Hall in the company of @ericidle.bsky.social . Wow, what a great night! Full of songs and stories, including some touching memories of his friendship with both George Harrison and Robin Williams. Prof Brian Cox came on during the encore. Loved it 😍.

Chalk grassland restoration today with the @southdownsnp.bsky.social volunteers at Cloth Farm near Jevington. An ongoing project to remove a lot of the scrub

Out with the Seaford Natural History group looking at fungi with the very knowledgeable Jim and Janet Howell in Friston Forest. Plenty of new-to-me species, including the helpfully named Orange peel fungus and Dead Moll's fingers

A snoozing Pelican in St James Park from our trip to London yesterday

I had a great time teaching a 3 day mammal course for the FSC over the weekend - looking at mammal signs, tracks, owl pellets and using the Longworth traps. Over two years since I last taught, but thankfully I can still do it and it brings me huge joy as well! Roll on next year, I hope....

Spent a day at Pagham Harbour today watching the tide rise and fall and the birds come and go. Total of 50 species of birds seen/heard including this Spoonbill at a high tide roost with the egrets and herons @sussexornitholo.bsky.social

Broad- leaved Everlasting pea seen this week on Hayling Island ( sadly no Long- tailed Blues hanging about near it 😔) #wildlowerhour

Sea Holly from Hayling island this week #wildflowerhour