A lonely crane in mid Norfolk. Hope another joins it!

Whether it’s a park, sports field or cemetery we want you to tell us what #birds use your local greenspace!🐦🌳 Sign up to our Birds in Greenspaces survey at www.bto.org/greenspaces#birdsJust download the app, select your greenspace and log bird records! #UKBirding #BirdingScotland #BirdingWales

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social Ten this week from Norfolk for #wildflowerhour – white violet, barren strawberry (?), celandine and wood anemone (behind a fence), my first bluebells, dog violet (?), dog mercury, ground ivy, primrose, speedwell in a field

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social No #treeflowers from Norfolk for #wildflowerhour – too early, most elms in hedges flailed to death, did see one in passing but no photo. Couple of blackthorn photos – that is everywhere

Sometimes when we are botanising we can forget to look up! Which would be a shame as #treeflowers are both fascinating & beautiful! This week’s challenge is to go looking for wild & naturalised trees that are blooming. Share your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm!

#storyplants for #wildflowerhour this week: primroses. There are probably lots of stories but I was struck in looking at Richard Mabey’s Flora Britannica that people used to pick them in thousands, carefully selectinga few from each clump, and that studies shows that this did no harm whatsoever

Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin... Once upon a time there was an entire flora with a story to tell - our native wildflowers have such a rich history in folklore, literature, medicine, history... @wildflowerhour.bsky.social would like to see your #storyplants this Sunday evening.

Sheer bliss, even on a grey day, to be in a #chalkstream for first time in >4 months & a thrill to spend my 1st ever quality time with big Graylings - what friendly fish! - in the River Nar upstream of Narborough. Thanks Alec Birkbeck & Fraser Bradbury for permission! #MySwim #Rivers #Norfolk 🧵1/9

We have loads of nightjars in and around Thetford Forest, mostly open access and managed to help them by Forestry England, a success story of combining access, wildlife and sustainable forestry

Blackthorn (left) & Cherry-plum at Grosvenor & Hilbert Park #wildflowerhour

#wildflowerhour other flowers in Norfolk: red dead nettle, ground ivy, primrose, coltsfoot, dogs mercury, lesser celandine, small nettle, pussy willow = goat willow? Mahonia (common escaped and naturalised flower in the Brecks, Norfolk/Suffolk)

#wildflowerhour in Norfolk: lady’s smock, not in the usual damp meadow you’d expect, though mostly in or by a ditch that has been dredged in the last couple of years. Excuse the large hand of my walking companion, it was very windy today!

One more #WhiteFlowers for #wildflowerhour, Norfolk: cherry plum/Marabella

#WhiteFlowers for #wildflowerhour , Norfolk: a snowdrop naturalised in a wood, daisy,? Bittercress, perfoliate claytonia, white dead nettle, which? comfrey, common chickweed, white comfrey, ? (growing on thin soil and moss on concrete). #wildflowerID can you help on ?s

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

Thanks to the brilliant @inkcapjournal.bsky.social I saw this. Felt such solidarity with Sheffield Tree Campaigners. Glad their sustained efforts have been somewhat recognised. Don't we want to live on healthy, leafy, tree-lined streets? Love to Sheffield, the most wooded, greenest UK city x

Today 25 of us went trespassing along the River Dart near Buckfast. In just 5km we walked through woodlands and along riverbanks owned by 4 different landowners who don't want the public on their land (including the monks at Buckfast Abbey). It's time for a right to roam! @righttoroam.bsky.social

The government must know this line is nonsense. Yet still keep repeating it. Nine river walks & three forests won't change the postcode lottery on access to nature. Even where these initiatives are happening they're so far only upgrading the existing infrastructure, not creating new access at all.

Missed #wildflowerhour, but this is one of my #signsofspring this week - enough garlic mustard leaves around to make pesto! Would be good to get next challenge earlier in week if possible, so can grab chance to go out to look?

Work to help my Flora Guardian plant Creeping Marshwort in Norfolk. Needs all the help it can get, Endangered status.

Whether it’s a first Lesser Celandine flower of the year or Elder leaves unfurling. The first #WildflowerHour challenge of the year is to spot #SignsOfSpring! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm. Below is the link if you would like to record your #NaturesCalendar sightings ⬇️ @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Might be useful for #WildflowerHour ? Excellent webinars about plants from BSBI – first one now on YouTube – really worth watching! For the 100 plants challenge, www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0WA...

#TheWinter10 (actually 27/28 altogether) in mid Norfolk! 1: Bittercress – not good pic, not sure which – very common now, cherry plum, Red Campion, Hazel male & female, crocus, a ragwort on a wall, Alexanders, white comfrey, and a grass, sorry no idea about that one #wildflowerID #WildflowerHour

#TheWinter10 (actually 27/28 altogether) in mid Norfolk! 2: Lesser celandine, winter heliotrope, daisy, primrose, white dead nettle, red dead nettle, aconite, snowdrop, daffodils #WildflowerHour

#TheWinter10 (actually 27/28 altogether) in mid Norfolk! 3: gorse, dog mercury, speedwell, dandelion, violet (not sure if Sweet), groundsel, petty spurge, shepherd’s purse, chickweed #WildflowerHour

It’s great to see lots of new followers & interaction with #wildflowerhour! 🥰 If you are new it’s so easy to join in! Find wild or naturalised blooms (not planted ones) from across Britain & Ireland & share during the magic hour Sunday’s 8-9pm when we have a proper planty party!! 🎉🌿🌸

My #TheWinter10 (actually 15 altogether) in mid Norfolk! Sweet violet, daisy, gorse, green alkanet, dandelion, red dead nettle and chickweed, petty spurge ?? (#WildflowerID) looking rather slug damaged, speedwell #WildflowerHour

Managed to find not only #TheWinter10 but actually 15 altogether in mid Norfolk! First 5: snowdrop, crocus, aconite, celandine, primrose #WildflowerHour

late post: Snowdrops, aconites, daffodils, red dead nettle, white dead nettle, groundsel, celandine, chickweed, speedwell, shepherd's purse. Sat 14 Feb, Oxburgh Hall, Oxborough and around. #WildflowerHour #TheWinter10

We're trialling something new this year at the BSBI - an activity designed to support absolute beginner botanists with identifying *and* recording their first ever 100 plants in 2026 🌿 If you know anyone that might like to take part then please spread the word: bsbi.org/take-part/ac...

Is this 14,000 acre estate in West Berkshire an access-to-nature nirvana? Patrick Galbraith thinks so. This week he took @righttoroam.bsky.social to task for its criticism of the Englefield Estate, owned by the former Conservative Minister in charge of.. access to nature. I explore the reality 👇

This May sees the release of Our Land - a feature length documentary film about the Right to Roam campaign, directed by Orban Wallace. www.youtube.com/watch?v=est-...

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour seen today: lots of snowdrops!

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour seen today: red dead nettle, aconite, hazel catkin (with ladybird), alder catkin

Good web conference on recreational disturbance issues in the outdoors today. Lots of common ground, still some philosophical gulfs to bridge. A few takeaways. -the reason many of our protected SSSIs exist is *because* the land was originally protected for access. That's why the two often overlap.

We're incredibly PROUD to be offering 80+ online and in-person courses (most completely FREE to attend!). Led by passionate specialists who want to share their knowledge, book as many as you want! This is a huge opportunity for nature enthusiasts🌿 Join us NOW! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-biolog...

How to trespass: It often doesn’t come naturally - we’re conditioned to stick to paths, obey signs, and respect boundaries. We’re going back to basics to share core principles for roaming respectfully and interacting with the world around you with care.

"£500m over 20 years is sod all," said @jakefiennes.bsky.social, responding to this week's announcement of govt funding for Landscape Recovery As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Enclosure Acts took away centuries of shared access to land, putting fences between people and nature. Securing the Right to Roam is about reclaiming the freedom to explore, enjoy, and reconnect with our countryside once again. Why do you support a Right to Roam? forms.gle/6q1uu2yf7ip3...

Have a go, back freedom to swim, and maybe win a great prize!

‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

On Sunday 30th November, a small group set out to find the source of the Pigeonhouse Stream - one of the hidden headwaters of Bristol’s “forgotten river,” the Malago.

Kernow showed up in force for river access last weekend. Twenty people gathered near Bodmin to trespass a stretch of the River Camel, while another seven walked the full 20 miles of the Camel Trail to highlight the inadequacy of the government’s proposed nine river walks.

The Countryside Right of Way (CRoW) Act succeeded in giving partial access across the nation.

Lovely to return to Hebden Bridge, memories of access-campaigns and Walkers are Welcome events, this time to celebrate 25th anniversary of Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000. Wet walk to Mere Stones, formerly forbidden land, then conference where all pledged to press government to act for access

This is our monthly right to swim protest in West Norfolk: Bawsey Brickyard Lake, Sun 14 Dec 2025 11:00 option to swim what3words.com/water.victor... Calling for the Right to Swim and for Access to the Outdoors for All, so we can enjoy water safely. #RightToSwim #FreedomAndFun

Temperatures and leaves are falling, time for www.outdoorswimmingsociety.com/how-to-be-an... #sharetheswimlove

The Government have today announced an Access Green Paper which will consult on how to ‘strengthen the public’s legal right to access’. This is welcome - but further delay isn't: Labour MPs & access NGOs are united on the need for access legislation now. @righttoroam.bsky.social comment: