So frustrating hearing & seeing fruit & seed bearing hedges being cut ahead of winter. We have lost 50% of our hedgerows since the 1950’s, no wonder we are in a “”#BiodiversityEmergency in the UK.

The blue recycling bin not the best camouflage for Acronicta psi, Grey Dagger #moth, #caterpillar. Appeared during pruning of an apple tree. Would it be happier on a hawthorn hedge? 🤔 In my #Cambridge garden. #TeamMoth

The spire and tower of Holy Trinity, Middleton cum Fordley, #Suffolk. Although the sun is shining the weathercock is stoically facing north-east. #SteepleSaturday #SpireSaturday

Digging through old photos of Woodbridge #Suffolk found this photo from 22/11/22 which I posted on #WildflowerHour in 'the other place' as Black #Nightshade, #Solanum nigrum, but with close examination and recent experience I'm sure it's Tall Nightshade, S. chenopodioides. 🤗 @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Join me on the evening of 22nd October for a FREE talk by me on “Making Farming Buzz Again”, which will focus on what research I’ve been up to over the years. Then Ann Conquest from LUC will talk about her work on the agri-environment. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-far...

I think this is Rhopalus subrufus in my #Cambridge garden which fell out of the seed heads of Betony plants I got from @duncanwestbury.bsky.social #Bugs #Hemiptera

WIND-BIBBER [wind-bib•r] sb. A haw. The fruit of Crataegus oxyacantha.

Crataegus persimilis broad-leaved cockspur thorn growing well away from any garden, at the foot of a disused railway embankment in a remote part of north Devon

It's Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival this weekend and queues are already forming. #Suffolk (In fact "The Family of Man" by Barbara Hepworth 1970.)

15th century font of Holy Trinity, Middleton #Suffolk. #FontsOnFriday

I was not the first to find this Shaggy Inkcap, Coprinus comatus, in #Suffolk yesterday. 🪰 #FungiFriday #Fungi

The Sandlings Walk by night where it passes The Tide Mill at Woodbridge #Suffolk #FingerpostFriday @timimu.bsky.social

Just a reminder that MILL RENOVATION starts on Mon 29 Sept for about 3 weeks. THE MILL WILL BE OPEN 11am – 5pm, but the RIVERSIDE BOARDWALK will be CLOSED. Here's a 'before' picture in advance of the renovation - gofund.me/525d29057 #woodbridgetidemillmuseum #woodbridgetidemill #millrenovation

Join us on 28 Sept at Pembroke College, Cambridge for Cambridge Rivers of Film: an evening of poetry, art, and film celebrating rivers. Includes ‘Flow of Life’ premiere with Q&A, Clare Crossman Waterlight Award, and festival micro-commissions. #riversoffilm

Crab supper on the Deben tonight. #Deben #Woodbridge #Suffolk #SuffolkBirds

A modern door in a modern building - Storey's Field Centre, Eddington #Cambridge #AdoorableThursday

A quick look just now in the Willow tree by my pond revealed three species. Lackey moth eggs, a beautiful Herald moth and a gall presumably created by a moth or a fly. #Wildwebswednesday #TeamMoth

Awkward as it might look, sideways locomotion might have fueled the diversification of crabs and allowed them to conquer new habitats. That story and more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪

Assessing the genetic diversity of the shamrock, Trifolium dubium, across Ireland biodiversitygenomics.eu/2025/03/13/a... @ergabiodiv.bsky.social @biogeneurope.bsky.social #biodiversity #genomics

A view of the River Deben, Woodbridge #Suffolk. #WindowsOnWednesday

More pargetting somewhere in Woodbridge #Suffolk. 😉 #WallsOnWednesday

Trifolium incarnatum, Crimson Clover, maybe a non-native grown for fodder or a wildflower mix but zoom in and it looks like a local spider has optimistically covered it in a close knit web. #WildWebsWednesday

At least they agreed on the pattern of the pargetting if not the colour. Neighbours in Woodbridge #Suffolk. #WallsOnWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday

Sizewell sea. 🙄 No joke really. Delays, roads closed apparently at random, heavy (ie weighty) traffic, plus police escorts for wide loads (no wider than average unescorted combine I was told by a local). #SizewellC #Sizewell #Suffolk

PLEASE READ! No more #BeeWashing. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Which led me to contemplate the role of Wild bird cover crops in a bigger context as someone who favours in order 1. Natural regeneration 2. Native plant species cultivation ConservationEvidence.com provides context with a few studies that Im still working my way through. #WildlifeGardening 2/2

Welcome back - such a joy to see and hear over our house ...

Here’s Meadow Saffron, Colchicum autumnale, for saffron #JacobinDay

Explore one of Cambridge’s oldest buildings at the Leper Chapel Open Day on Sun 28 Sep, 1.30–3.30pm. Guided by a volunteer, discover its history and support heritage conservation. Step-free access via Chisholm Trail. Join us: https://cambridgeppf.org/join-us-page/

Hidden by the coast path here’s Tamarisk, Tamarix gallica, at Bawdsey Quay #Suffolk #ThickTrunkTuesday

There have been days when I’ve walked below the sea defences at Bawdsey Quay but today it was high tide with the wind behind it so I didn’t bother! 😬 #Suffolk #Seascape

#MushroomMonday #Equinox #nature #mushroom #amanita Happy Mushroom Monday on this Autumnal Equinox day! In the Midwest, we have Amanita muscaria var. guessowii, also called Yellow Fly Agaric.

Turn of the tide and the exact moment of #Equinox at Woodbridge #Suffolk #AutumnEquinox

Celery-leaved Buttercup, Ranunculus sceleratus, at the edge of a pond on Staines Moor for #WildflowerHour.

Veronica beccabunga, Brooklime, beside the Rollers - a means of navigating a punt from a higher level of the Cam into the Mill Pond, #Cambridge #WildflowerHour

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Hop and White Bryony in a hedge in Woodbridge #Suffolk #WildflowerHour

Blue fleabane flowering in Ely yesterday. #WildflowerHour

Common Reed in the sunset. Woodbridge #Suffolk #WildflowerHour

White Melilot, Melilotus albus, as a #PavementPlant in West #Cambridge. #WildflowerHour

What looks like a sterile pavement is in fact a colony of Four-leaved Allseed, Polycarpon tetraphyllum, from the bus stop to as far as the distant junction. All with 2m of the road. Charles Babbage Road, West #Cambridge See ALT. #WildflowerHour

Autumn Crocus aka Meadow Saffron, Colchicum autumnale, growing 'where it always is' at a rather remote site east of #Cambridge #WildflowerHour

Nightshade family plants of Woodbridge #Suffolk 4/4 Apple of Peru, Nicandra physaloides, going to seed. 😉 #WildflowerHour #PavementPlant

Nightshade family plants of Woodbridge #Suffolk 3/4 Tomato, Solanum lycopersicum. #WildflowerHour #PavementPlant

Nightshade family plants of Woodbridge #Suffolk 2/4 Black Nightshade, Solanum nigrum. #WildflowerHour

Nightshade family plants of Woodbridge #Suffolk 1/4 Tall Nightshade, Solanum chenopodioides. #WildflowerHour #PavementPlant

A fine form of hybrid polypody Polypodium x mantoniae at Anmer with #NorfolkFloraGroup this weekend. I must have inspected the undersides of hundreds of polypodies over the years but I’ve never noticed this cute frond friend before.. Any ideas? #wildflowerhour

The Woodwoses and Wildmen of #Suffolk - a Dunwich Museum talk - Saturday 18th October 2025 6:30pm online via Zoom. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-woodwo... @DiscoverDunwich.bsky.social

Archaeologist, Angus, shares his top three finds from the big dig at Wimpole Estate's parterre: - decorated flagon imported from Cologne, featuring tiny warrior heads - Tudor pipkin (three-legged cooking pot) still marked with the potter’s thumbprint - metal hooked tag once used to fasten clothing

I'm sharing local history at Cherry Hinton Library's community day till 4pm. Come along and have a look at the WI scrapbooks for 1958 and 1965 along with maps and photos of Cherry Hinton.