🔬 The Cavendish Experiment: how tiny lead balls proved gravity exists between small objects

A rather ordinary day @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh, highlight was a Bittern moving between reed beds. A fine sight in fight...and the Peacock butterfly of course! @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social

#MallardMonday @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh...The duck led the drakes in flight moments later. Their "courtship" is like a gangbang,I'm disillusioned and disappointed...

Exactly 5 minutes BEFORE Trump announced a 5-day delay in bombing Iranian power plants, someone purchased $1.5 billion worth of S&P futures in a single trade. Someone also sold $192 million in oil futures. Trump and/or his cronies are engaging in market manipulation and insider trading.

Northants Badby Wood SSSI is on the up. Thinning has awoken the seed bank and wonders are in store. The Alleluiah plants agree. Wood Sorrel in time for Easter! #StoryPlants @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Return to Everdon Stubbs in Northants. for the proper Daffs. Still in flower and joined by Wood Anenome and soon a sea of Bluebells. Stubbs denotes coppice woodland and the floor of this one is the result of a long history as worked woodland. #StoryPlants @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Seen on a walk @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social Ryton Wood meadows today....

Incontrovertible proof ! We have breeding bird activity at #AshlawnCuttingLNR #SpringEquinox #BirdsSeenIn2026

As we wait for the arrival of spring to catch up in some places, something a bit different for this week’s challenge! Many wild plants have interesting stories to tell. Find one & share your pics with a fascinating fact using hashtag #storyplants for #wildflowerhour Sunday 8-9pm!

Gillingham Town Council has pledged to become the first official Butterfly Friendly town in the UK 🦋🎉 The council already has a biodiversity action plan and manages parks with wildlife in mind, and now it has promised to improve access to green spaces and work to cut light pollution as well.

China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week: buff.ly/3Y2Mz7f We have the solutions. It's time China and everyone else to unplug the fossil fuel machine and implement them. #ActOnClimate

If only we had gone fast and focussed into renewables #solar #wind #renewables #wave #greenenergy Sleepwalking into yet another energy crisis... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nearly all finished at the North end of #AshlawnCuttingLNR. The ground covering Ivy has been removed frm 22 patches on the East facing sidings bank. A little more to be done to grub out an expanding Snowberry patch.

It would be good if similar legislation could be leveraged to ensure compliance with dog rules on nature reserves www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#WildWebsWednesday gets going now we have flowers as well as pollinators at #AshlawncuttingNR

£180 billion additional borrowing. 1.5% smaller economy by 2030. 7% inflation. The Iran war will punish every country. But nations with lower reliance on global oil and gas markets will be better protected. @thecccuk.bsky.social environmentjournal.online/headlines/ne...

Back at Kilsby Lane LWS today,controlling advancing scrub on this 6.5 Ha. former pasture on the VC3/32 County boundary.

@savebutterflies.bsky.social ?

Great example of why capitalising species names is valuable "ringed curlew" is a very plausible species name. "ringed Curlew" makes it clear that this article is about

Great Egret keen to be the best it can. #Preening @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh today

Tame Valley Beaver records from WMBC Ladywalk Nature Reserve. To accompany article in the WMBC March edition. youtu.be/L5MqFkzMA_g

Blue Tit nest hole, hope the Marshies have a good nest site too. #Competition #Springtime @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh,Horsetail Glade

#AshlawncuttingLNR work party today. 4 of us carried on clearingsome of the prostrate Ivy on the bank next to the flat area that was once sidings. We'll see what comes through now there's more light getting down to the ground where qe thinned out some saplings.

Cherry Plum and Blackthorn in flower 3 weeks ago in #Northamptonshire Blackthorn very early!! #WhiteFlowers @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

As well as the FIT Count survey, we run a more systematic survey using insect traps in a set of 1 km squares across the UK. If you live near one of the red squares on the map and are interested in taking part please contact us for more details ukpoms.org.uk/one-km-squar...

A few pics from a trip to Wootton Wawen in Warwickshire. With a friend trying out new cameras. Seeing what does and doesn't work and learning menus etc.. Commas down by the river were atreat,and recorded on i-record butterflies app. @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social

At last Redpoll at #AshlawncuttingLNR. I'd been looking for these all Winter with no success until yesterday. Happy Days. :-) #BirdsSeenIn2026

Covering all of California's water canals with solar panels could generate 13 gigawatts of renewable power and save 63 billion gallons of water per year: buff.ly/3Gx1wUq We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables

Why we leave half uncut over Winter at #AshlwncuttingLNR. We'll be starting to cut half of that uncut area over the next few weeks. We have to cut and rake off grasslands but it's a daunting puzzle ,what's best.....variety! Goldfinches doing well :-).

Stuart Oates, the farmer trying to go fossil fuel free... wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/wl-...

#Threesday Shelduck moments after take off and flying above East marsh pool at Brandon Marsh SSSI. Grab shots through the letterbox shaped window of a hide!

Can you find any wild or naturalised plants that have white blooms? That’s the #wildflowerhour challenge this week! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #WhiteFlowers. Happy flower hunting! @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Little and Great Egret and a Grey Heron socially distanced at Brandon Marsh SSSI . VC38 wildlife trust resrve . #Threesday @everyheron.bsky.social

A busy Thursday at #AshlawncuttingLNR 13 volunteers adding to the diversity of habitas in different ways. See ALT

I was privileged to be on the same level with this lovely fearless Dunnock at Brandon Marsh today. #BirdsSeenIn2026 @warwickshirewt.bsky.social

It's #Wrensday. Something to shout about at #Springtime

Oystercatchers,birds for #Twosday and #WaderWednesday and every other day with a Y in it!!

Great news on one level... but also an example of nature being pushed to the absolute fringes, in isolated, inaccessible places. Is this as good as it gets for nature in Britain? Are railway and roadside verges the few places nature can exist in modern Britain?

I think we need to rake out the arisings that couldn't be removed rom our pond at KIlsby Lane LWS nr.Rugby. Water has filled the pond and floated them and they're rotting causing algal growth. A job for next week's work party. Grassland management done and ongoing.

This school in Denmark is covered in #solar panels. It's the longest solar panel facade in the world. RT if you think all schools should get a solar upgrade. #ActOnClimate #climate #renewables #sustainability #solar #energy #innovation #tech #design #GreenNewDeal

Typical Treecreeper! (needs a click) @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh today.

A nice pair. On grey day at Stanford Reservoir. #MallardMonday

This Chiffchaff was calling and showed itself among the Blackthorn buds at #AshlawncuttingLNR. Overwinterer or early? #BirdsSeenIn2026

A new report from wildlife charity Buglife reveals that pesticides from common flea and tick treatments are now widespread in rivers across Britain and may be contributing to major declines in freshwater invertebrates bit.ly/4b1Pu50

Missile attacks close oil and gas targets. Gulf flights grounded. The Strait of Hormuz is effectively closed. And recent UK intelligence reports point to geopolitical instability rapidly increasing in the coming years due to ecosystem collapse. environmentjournal.online/energy/iran-...

Blackthorn @northcavewet.bsky.social doing anything Hawthorn can do, but sooner and with a subtlety that escapes its louder cousin 🙂 Elsewhere: first chiffchaff and last redwing

Wood Anenome flower spotted while admiring the wild Daffodils at Everdon Stubbs #Northamptonshire @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

It's not the Rat's fault. This neighbouring house owners bird feeding area over their fence at #AshlwncuttingLNR is a biohazard. Max count of 20 Brown rats seen here . #Leptospirosis

Willow and Sweet Violet flowering at #AshlawncuttingLNR ,Rugby @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Narcissus pseudonarcissus. Proper Daffodils at Everdon Stubbs #Northamptonshire. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social